"Jeska doesn't know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What are they hiding from? When Jeska's grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger's name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family's past, and hopefully to all that's gone unsaid....A true story of navigating generational trauma as a child, I'll Keep You Close is about...

As a young Robert Louis Stevenson visits a Scottish lighthouse built by his great-grandfather, his father tells him a story of pirates and lighthouses.

A nineteenth-century American girl journals her trip to London where she meets famous painters like John Singer Sargeant, learns about art, and more.

It’s 1895. Charlotte and her American family came to France three years ago so her father could learn to paint in the French Impressionist style. Now Charlotte and her parents are traveling to London to see if the famous—and very busy—artist John Singer Sargeant will

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Was macht ein gutes Kinderbuch aus? Reden, Aufsätze und Biografisches von Paul Maar Was macht ein gutes Kinderbuch aus? Welches Selbstverständnis hat der Autor Paul Maar und wie ist er zum Schreiben gekommen? Die umfangreiche Sammlung enthält alle wichtigen Reden und Aufsätze des vielfach preisgekrönten Autors, Lyrikers und Dramatikers, führt in sein Leben und Werk ein und ist ein Schatz für alle, die sich mit Kinderliteratur und Kindertheater...

Regresamos en el tiempo 900 años, a las feroces y desoladas tierras del norte, donde los nórdicos reinan con el hacha y la espada. Un rey agonizante, una última voluntad escandalosa, sus herederos divididos con un juramento de sangre… En esta vertiginosa nueva novela de la popularísima Susan Peek, el conflicto se desarrolla entre Magnus Erlendson, un heroico joven príncipe inflamado por el amor a Dios, y su desterrado primo Hakon, quien culpa...

In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.

Salki, a "salki" is an attic to store memorabilia, is a travel narrative focused as much on moving through time as space. As he travels from city to city, Nowicki recounts stories from his family's past, using fictional techniques to recount their lives, struggles, and fears in twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

This is a memoir of Victoria-Ann Penny and, as you may have guessed, she is a Victorian penny. This is her story, as best she can remember it. She is well over a 100 years old so her memory might be just a little bit hazy. Born towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign Miss Penny recounts various historical events in the 20th century including world wars and the first moon landing. She also travelled around various countries and the British Isles...

"Another Fabulous Art History Thriller by the Bestselling Author of Oil and Marble, Featuring the Master of Renaissance Perfection: Raphael! Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael, Painter in Rome, Storey tells of its creation as never before: through the eyes of Michelangelo's fiercest rival-the young, beautiful, brilliant painter of perfection, Raphael. Orphaned at age eleven,...

Follows the final days of Mordechai Anielewicz, leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization that led the insurrection against Nazi control in Poland during the Holocaust.