Annie Weaver always planned to return home, but the 20-year old RN has
lived in Philadelphia for three years now. As her time of rumschpringe
is about to come to an abrupt end, bringing for Annie an overwhelming
sense of loneliness.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- A Simple Amish Christmas by Vannetta Chapman
FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- The Remnant - Stories of the Jewish Resistance in WWII (Boomer Book Series) by Othniel J. Seiden
"I can't kill Nazis if I'm dead. . ." Solomon Shalensky
After
researching the transcripts of the Nuremburg Trials and interviewing
'The Remnant' or Jewish survivors of the holocaust, many still living in
Israel; Othniel Seiden was compelled to write their startling and
remarkable stories of World War II. In this stunning and compelling
historical novel about the Jews who were able to remain free and fight,
Seiden documents their survival, their suffering, their missions and
their guerrilla warfare tactics against the Nazi occupation forces.
Also,
well documented, the tragedy of Kiev and now infamous ravine of Babi
Yar where it is thought that nearly a million people, Jews and non-Jews
alike were massacred. These brave few escaped the certain death of their
co-religionists by acts of bravery and sheer determination to live. The
myth that the Jewish people 'went to their deaths like sheep to
slaughter. . .' is put to rest forever in the stories of "The Remnant."
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Stairlift to Heaven by Terry Ravenscroft
Stairlift to Heaven (The journal of an OAP.) Don’t miss this one
whatever you do! Although Stairlift to Heaven is written by an old age
pensioner, non-coffin dodgers should not be put off by this. Everyone
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coping with old age to be learned here. Written by Terry Ravenscroft,
former scriptwriter to Les Dawson, The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise,
Ken Dodd, Alas Smith and Jones and many more top comedians and
television shows. Stairlift to Heaven has been likened by one reviewer
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Speak Swahili, Dammit! by James Penhaligon
An inspiring biographical account of a young boy’s chaotic life in a remote, wild, corner of East Africa.
Born
in Africa, James’s childhood is spent on an isolated gold-mine near
Lake Victoria, Tanganyika, with just his sister and mother; his father
tragically dying through injuries sustained from World War II. His
upbringing is mainly left to a tribal ayah called Amina and an elderly
Swahili man, and he learns to speak Swahili before English.
In
this unusual setting he soon discovers some stark facts about life
through tragedy and danger, but it is the local watu, imbued with
kindness and irrepressible humour, that save him from despair, and with
whom he learns to fish with home-made lines, eat insects and famously
abuse the European hierarchy in real Swahili!
Known as ‘Jimu’ to
his friends, he marks out his own country with a Sukuma boy named
Lutoli, falls deeply in love with the beautiful, but older, German girl
Gretchen and throws himself out of the back of a bus to avoid being sent
away to school.
Once at school, in Arusha, James tends to mix with
other non-conformers and presents a dilemma to teachers – he is a white
boy with a ‘black spirit’. His gang gets up to nefarious enterprises,
bringing them into a state of permanent conflict with the system.
James
is fascinated with the history of Tanganyika back to the time when it
was a German Colony until 1918. The unparalleled courage of the German
leader Paul von Lettow Vorbeck against the British is a beacon to the
young boy of what can be accomplished against adversity
Above all
James discovers the world, and life, a little by education, a lot by
accident, but overwhelmingly by fate and happenstance, in circumstances
few people in the developed world have experienced.
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FREE -- US Kindle ONLY -- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age [Illustrated] by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Seedbox Classics edition of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age includes illustrations.
The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age is a
collection of essential short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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