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Alle Jahre Für und Wider Weihnachten … Die Zeit der peinlichen Krippenspiele, der unbedachten Geschenke, der kleinen und großen Wunder. Man verbringt die Feiertage zu Hause, auf dem Weg dahin im Zug – oder auch mal als Weihnachtsbaum verkleidet in den Ecken fremder Wohnzimmer. Wir feiern einsam,...

Nothing exciting has ever happened to Edmund Roth. But that changes one day when he falls down a hole in his basement and finds himself in the middle of a civilization he never knew existed, with floating balls of energy and a dictatorial government that hates people from aboveespecially Edmund. But...

In a lecture hall on October 13, 1927, the speaker, Thursby, welcomes the audience. Although only five inches tall, Thursby is elegantly dressed; also, his head is that of a lop-eared rabbit. An English lop rabbit, to be specific. Thursby relates a story of long past: In a grand house in the country,...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Kassel (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Riddles and rhymes are very common in English speaking countries;...

The Mother and Her Child: Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation, and Loss, edited by Salman Akhtar, focuses upon the formation of an individual's self in the crucible of the early mother-child relationship. Bringing together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts and child observational...

Wallis Jones has created the good life for herself and the love of her life, her husband, Norman when a strange man shows up in her driveway one morning, changing everything. The List is the start of the Wallis Jones series, stories about a happy family that gets caught between two old secret powers....

On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecsny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland,...

Before graduating from Yale Law School, Mira Chambers hoped for one thing and one thing onlyto have her mother, Jessica (Jessie), present when she received her law degree. However, Mira understood and accepted the reason behind her mothers absence; her mothers life depended on remaining in hiding....

The apartment building where I grew up had peeling paint and unkempt trees and bushes. Perhaps the twenty families living in nineteen apartments didnt even notice that it was not only the walls of the building that were chipping away little by little simply because they were glad that they had a roof...

Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Rescued from an animal shelter on the first night of Hanukkah, Latke has trouble learning the house rules. Despite a series of mishaps, he is one Lucky Dog!

** Le bouleversant destin d’une couturière lorraine au pied de la Colline de Sion au lendemain de la guerre de 1870.** « Ne crois-tu pas que Marie-Victoire a assez souffert du qu’en dira-t-on ? Une fille mère montrée du doigt qui a accouché dans la solitude et a dû fermer son atelier......

Au XVIIIe siècle, dans le duché de Lorraine, Manon trouve dans l'art naissant de la faïence de Lunéville une passion pour calmer le traumatisme de son enfance. Unique rescapée du massacre qui a décimé sa famille, Manon n'a eu la vie sauve qu'au prix d'une horrible mutilation. La fillette...

Près de Strasbourg, une jeune femme enquête sur le passé complexe de sa famille, les Bergklauss : une généalogie en terre alsacienne. Dans un petit village près de Strasbourg, Clémence renoue avec ses racines alsaciennes et, en promesse à sa mère décédée, tente de démêler les...

Doué d'un tempérament d'artiste, Matthieu Thuillier, jeune apprenti à la prestigieuse verrerie Daum à Nancy, est devenu l'un de ses meilleurs ouvriers. Il côtoie les plus grands artistes et artisans d'alors, Louis Majorelle, Emile Gallé et tous ceux qui, rassemblés dans l'Ecole de Nancy, sont...