Helmut & Charlotte Jacobitz were born in Berlin during the mid-1920s. They experienced depression & inflation, & witnessed violence as fascists & communists vied for control of Germany. When the Nazis prevailed, they survived the 12 years of the Third Reich. Drafted in 1943, Helmut was wounded fighting in Normandy. Charlotte, meanwhile, worked at the Reichsbank & took shelter against frequent bombing raids. After the Russians surrounded Berlin in April 1945, she witnessed firsthand the brutal battle for the city. The two young Germans met each other after the war, Charlotte joining Helmut to smuggle food into Berlin through the Russian blockade. The family finally immigrated to America, barely escaping before the Berlin Wall sliced the city in half. We Were Berliners combines the personal reminiscences of the Jacobitzs with a lively, detailed overview of historical events as they related to the family, to Germany, & to Europe. ...

Powerful & necessary, a state-of-the-nation portrait of America under Obama from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Between the World & Me. From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. Obama`s presidency reshaped America & transformed the international conversation around politics, race, equality. But it attracted criticism & bred discontent as much as it inspired hope
- so much so, that the world now faces an uncertain future under a very different kind of US President. In this essential new book, peerless writer Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of the Obama era, speaking authoritatively from political, ideological & cultural perspectives, & draws a sophisticated & penetrating portrait of America today.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER`I`ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates` Toni Morrison` Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [ He] is responsible for some of the most important writing about what it is to be black in America today` Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant An essential account of modern America, from Obama to Trump, from black lives matter to white supremacists rising
- by the bestselling author of Between the World & Me Obama`s presidency was a watershed moment in American history. From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. In those eight years, Obama transformed the conversation around race, gender, class & wealth
- inspiring hope but also attracting criticism & breeding discontent. In this unflinching book, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of Obama`s eight years in power, through such iconic, unmissable essays as ` Fear of a Black President` & ` The Case for Reparations`. His account traverses the intersections of the political, the ideological & the cultural, presenting an America in radical flux & yet still in the grip of racial injustice, class warfare & institutional conspiracy. & it reflects on the author`s own journey through these eight years, charting the public through the private in passages of startling intimate & piercingly relevant memoir. Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of our most brilliant, most fearless & most essential living writers
- & his work is crucial to understanding race in America today. Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize 2018 Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2018RAVE READER REVIEWS:` Brilliantly written, incisive, & extremely relevant. Read it with your families, use it in your classrooms, give copies to your friends` (Liz)` Coates thinks more deeply & writes more clearly about the national tragedy & disgrace that is our collective failure to confront the legacy of White Supremacy than just about anyone... I can`t recommend it highly enough` (Worddancer Redux)` Every white person who wants to really know how it looks from `the other side` should take on the responsibility of reading Coates` eye-opening, informative book... A must read for everyone of every colour` (Indy JV)`A masterful understanding of how the USA really works` (shedgirl)` If you want to know the wellsprings of racism in America
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In 1950s Boston, the best way to survive is keep your head down & your mouth shut. But Cal & Dante prefer to do the right thing, not the sensible one. When a body is discovered tarred, feathered & shot, it is dismissed as a gangland killing. But Cal O` Brien`s cousin, detective Owen Lackey, recognises the murder as the typical retribution for IRA informers. Owen knows that no one in the tight-knit Boston Irish community will talk. He turns to Cal & Dante for help, sending them into the city`s shadowy underbelly. But there`s a war on its way
- & they`re walking straight into the middle of it.
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”E. Lockhart is one of our most important novelists, & she has given us her best book yet. Thrilling, beautiful, & blisteringly smart, We were Liars is utterly unforgettable”. (John Green, number 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault In Our Stars). ” Irresistible.” (The New York Times Book Review). ” Haunting, sophisticated.” (The Wall Street Journal). ” Bowl-you-over.” (Cosmopolitan). ” So freaking good.” (Sarah Dessen). ” Such beautiful writing.” (Libba Bray). ” Beautiful & disturbing.” (Justine Larbalestier). ” Better than the hype.” (Lauren Oliver). We are the Liars. We are beautiful, privileged & live a life of carefree luxury. We are cracked & broken. It is a story of love & romance. It is a tale of tragedy. Which are lies? Which is truth? ...

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village & starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman`s nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive, nomadic sailor & unbridled beauty who once tied many a man`s heart in knots. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area from the suburbs of Montreal, barely has time to unpack his suitcase before he`s thrown into the deep end of the investigation. On Quebec`s outlying Gaspe Peninsula, the truth can be slippery, especially down on the fishermen`s wharves. Interviews drift into idle chit-chat, evidence floats off with the tide & the truth lingers in murky waters. It`s enough to make DS Morales reach straight for a large whisky... Both a dark & consuming crime thriller & a lyrical, poetic ode to the sea, We Were the Salt of the Sea is a stunning, page-turning novel, from one of the most exciting new names in crime fiction. ...

` Wars are not won by evacuations`. ` We can take it`! ` Westward look, the land is bright`. This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators

Includes:: Churchill`s famous words on the declaration of war with Germany, as well as his rousing call to the British in June 1940 after Dunkirk, & his immortal tribute to the young men fighting in the Battle of Britain. ” Great Ideas”: throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war & revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked & comforted. They have enriched lives
- & destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are.



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An account of a people's response to genocide & what it tells us about humanity. It chronicles what has happened in Rwanda since 1994, when the government called on the Hutu majority to murder the Tutsi minority. Some 800, 000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives the book its title. ...

For more than a century, Americans & Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. Most were tourists, but a significant number had other motives, ranging from learning to paint or write, to finding a rich husband; from escaping racism & politics to gaining a sexual education. John Baxter arrived because he had fallen in love with a French woman. All of these people arrived because they were re-making their lives. We'll Always Have Paris is a personal view of Paris as it appeared to the emotionally & intellectually hungry of the world. It is a guided tour of the people & places associated with the Parisian legend. It

Includes:: interviews with painters, film-makers, actresses, writers, poets. There are visits to the cafes of Montparnasse where Hemingway, Fitzgerald & Man Ray hung out. It explores the old brothels
- temples of sensuality in 18th century Paris
- & an erotic bookshop. Above all, it is John Baxter's personal history of Europe's most romantic capital city.



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We're going on a bear hunt! Through the long wavy grass, the thick oozy mud & the swirling, whirling snowstorm
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