Children of the Siege
Author | : Pauline Cutting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Beirut (Lebanon) |
ISBN | : 9780330303590 |
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Author | : Pauline Cutting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Beirut (Lebanon) |
ISBN | : 9780330303590 |
Author | : Diney Costeloe |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2019-02-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1784976199 |
Heart-stopping and gripping, this classic Diney Costeloe story shows the courage of one family in the face of great danger. Nineteenth-century Paris is in flames, houses ransacked, streets barricaded. Most people are fleeing the ravaged city, but the St Clair family have made a fateful decision – to return to Paris from their house in the country. As the horrors of the Commune and the ensuring siege engulf the St Clairs, little Helene falls ill and becomes separated from the family. Lost and alone, she must fend for herself on the war-torn streets.
Author | : Joel Bakan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1439121222 |
Computer game designers craft techniques to titillate children with sex and violence, while social media developers infiltrate and shape children's social and emotional worlds to compel them to spend more and more monetizable time online. America's schools are being transformed into profit centers while children are subjected to increasingly regimented teaching that thwarts curiosity and creativity, numbing the joy of learning. And children's chronic health problems, from asthma to cancer, autism, and birth defects, steadily escalate as thousands of new industrial chemicals are dumped into their environments. Nelson Mandela once sagely remarked that "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children." The problem today, as Joel Bakan reveals, is that business interests have made protecting children extremely difficult.
Author | : Andrea Warren |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1429948434 |
Meet Lucy McRae and two other young people, Willie Lord and Frederick Grant, all survivors of the Civil War's Battle for Vicksburg. In 1863, Union troops intend to silence the cannons guarding the Mississippi River at Vicksburg – even if they have to take the city by siege. To hasten surrender, they are shelling Vicksburg night and day. Terrified townspeople, including Lucy and Willie, take shelter in caves – enduring heat, snakes, and near suffocation. On the Union side, twelve-year-old Frederick Grant has come to visit his father, General Ulysses S. Grant, only to find himself in the midst of battle, experiencing firsthand the horrors of war. "Living in a cave under the ground for six weeks . . . I do not think a child could have passed through what I did and have forgotten it." – Lucy McRae, age 10, 1863 Period photographs, engravings, and maps extend this dramatic story as award-winning author Andrea Warren re-creates one of the most important Civil War battles through the eyes of ordinary townspeople, officers and enlisted men from both sides, and, above all, three brave children who were there.
Author | : Helen Dunmore |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780802139580 |
Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by "The New York Times Book Review, The Siege" is Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental--the Nazi's 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed 600,000--but her focus is heartrendingly intimate.
Author | : James Garbarino |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2002-09 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0743223837 |
A compassionate and practical guide for parents facing the difficult task of raising children in an increasingly violent world. This intelligent, parent-centered reference takes a sympathetic yet tough-minded look at the forces that are shaping--and disrupting--American family life today.
Author | : Diney Costeloe |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2020-02-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1838934464 |
Paris, 1871. A lost child. A family divided. The bitter backdrop of war. A heart-stopping and gripping tale of endurance for fans of historical fiction. The St Clair family have returned home after the war, seeking refuge in Paris. But their safety is not to last. Their young daughter, Hélène, falls ill and, in an unlucky twist of fate, is separated from her family. Alone and afraid, she is left to fend for herself on the streets, until she is found by a group of violent revolutionaries... All the while, her brothers Georges and Marcel find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the barricade, and the family is swept up in the ever-rising tide of violence that sweeps the city's streets. Will they be able to take back their old lives? Will the brothers learn to overcome their differences and fight together? And will poor lost Hélène ever find her way home? Drawing on the author's own family history, The Lost Girl in Paris is an unforgettable story of resilience in the face of great fear. Readers are loving it: 'Another brilliant book from Diney!' Amazon reviewer, 5*. 'I look forward to Diney's next book, always a good read!' Amazon reviewer, 5*. 'Brilliant book, can't wait for the next one!' Amazon reviewer, 5*. 'Another great story from one of my favourite authors!' Amazon reviewer, 5*.
Author | : Diney Costeloe |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2020-05-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1789543282 |
Two girls in 19th-century rural France. Annette works below stairs. Hélène is a daughter of the house. As children on the mean streets of Paris, they went through more together than anyone must ever guess and they share a secret to be kept at all costs. Now Hélène is in love with a man she cannot marry. And must marry a man she cannot love. A man she is beginning to suspect is both cruel and dangerous... 'Truly captivating' Woman & Home