The Ash Garden

Author : Dennis Bock
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375414275

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The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock Pdf

Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton, a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project, that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his Austrian wife Sophie, a Jewish refugee, it marks the start of an irreparable fissure in their new marriage. Fifty years later, seemingly far removed from the day that defined their lives, Emiko visits Anton and Sophie, and in Dennis Bock’s powerfully imagined narrative, their histories converge.

Author : Dennis Bock
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0613683153

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The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock Pdf

The lives and fates of three people--a scientist smuggled into America to work at Los Alamos, a young woman quarantined on a refugee ship in the Atlantic, and a young Japanese girl--collide in August 1945 with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Author : Dennis Bock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Atomic bomb victims
ISBN : OCLC:1012130066

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The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock Pdf

Author : Katy McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1320924662

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The Ash Garden: Hiroshima Under a Rain of Ruin by Katy McCormick Pdf

Author : Dennis Bock
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443460989

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The Good German by Dennis Bock Pdf

In November 1939, a German anti-fascist named Georg Elser came as close to assassinating Adolf Hitler as anyone ever had. In this gripping novel of alternate history, he doesn’t just come close—he succeeds. But he could never have imagined the terrible consequences that would follow from this act of heroism. Hermann Göring, masterful political strategist, assumes the Chancellery and quickly signs a non-aggression treaty with the isolationist president Joseph Kennedy that will keep America out of the war that is about to engulf Europe. Göring rushes the German scientific community into developing the atomic bomb, and in August 1944, this devastating new weapon is tested on the English capital. London lies in ruins. The war is over, fascism prevails in Europe, and Canada, the Commonwealth holdout in the Americas, suffers on as a client state of the Soviet Union. Georg Elser, blinded in the A-bombing of London, is shipped to Canada and quarantined in a hospice near Toronto called Mercy House. Here we meet William Teufel, a German-Canadian boy who in the summer of 1960 devises a plan that he hopes will distance himself from his German heritage and, unwittingly, brings him face to face with the man whose astonishing act of heroism twenty-one years earlier set the world on its terrifying new path. In this page-turning narrative, Bock has created an utterly compelling and original novel of historical speculation in the vein of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids and Philip K. Dick’s cult classic The Man in the High Castle.

Author : Molly Dektar
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501144875

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The Ash Family by Molly Dektar Pdf

When a young woman leaves her family to join a secret off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic leader, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost, in this “stunning debut,” (The New Yorker) “perfect for fans of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and the film Martha Marcy May Marlene” (Booklist, starred review). At nineteen, Berie encounters a seductive and mysterious man at a bus station near her home in North Carolina. Shut off from the people around her, she finds herself compelled by his promise of a new life. He ferries her into a place of order and chaos: the Ash Family farm. There, she joins a community living off the fertile land of the mountains, bound together by high ideals and through relationships she can’t untangle. Berie—now renamed Harmony—renounces her old life and settles into her new one on the farm. She begins to make friends. And then they start to disappear. “An excellent debut, Molly Dektar probes life in a cult with a masterful hand, excavating the troubled mind of a young woman,” (Publishers Weekly). The Ash Family explores what we will sacrifice in the search for happiness, and the beautiful and grotesque power of the human spirit as it seeks its ultimate place of belonging. “A captivating and haunting tale” (New York Journal of Books).

Author : Kathleen Burkinshaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781634506946

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The Last Cherry Blossom by Kathleen Burkinshaw Pdf

Following the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this is a new, very personal story to join Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Yuriko was happy growing up in Hiroshima when it was just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living with them now, and the family is only getting bigger with talk of a double marriage! And while things are changing at home, the world beyond their doors is even more unpredictable. World War II is coming to an end, and since the Japanese newspapers don’t report lost battles, the Japanese people are not entirely certain of where Japan stands. Yuriko is used to the sirens and the air-raid drills, but things start to feel more real when the neighbors who have left to fight stop coming home. When the bombs hit Hiroshima, it’s through Yuriko’s twelve-year-old eyes that we witness the devastation and horror. This is a story that offers young readers insight into how children lived during the war, while also introducing them to Japanese culture. Based loosely on author Kathleen Burkinshaw’s mother’s firsthand experience surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, The Last Cherry Blossom hopes to warn readers of the immense damage nuclear war can bring, while reminding them that the “enemy” in any war is often not so different from ourselves.

Author : James M. Deem
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9780618473083

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Bodies from the Ash by James M. Deem Pdf

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Author : Ash Davidson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982144425

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Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times “A glorious book—an assured novel that’s gorgeously told.” —The New York Times Book Review “An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family.” —CBS Sunday Morning “[An] absorbing novel…I felt both grateful to have known these people and bereft at the prospect of leaving them behind.” —The Washington Post A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future. Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It’s 1977, and life in this Pacific Northwest logging town isn’t what it used to be. For generations, the community has lived and breathed timber; now that way of life is threatened. Colleen is an amateur midwife. Rich is a tree-topper. It’s a dangerous job that requires him to scale trees hundreds of feet tall—a job that both his father and grandfather died doing. Colleen and Rich want a better life for their son—and they take steps to assure their future. Rich secretly spends their savings on a swath of ancient redwoods. But when Colleen, grieving the loss of a recent pregnancy and desperate to have a second child, challenges the logging company’s use of the herbicides she believes are responsible for the many miscarriages in the community, Colleen and Rich find themselves on opposite sides of a budding conflict. As tensions in the town rise, they threaten the very thing the Gundersens are trying to protect: their family. Told in prose as clear as a spring-fed creek, Damnation Spring is an intimate, compassionate portrait of a family whose bonds are tested and a community clinging to a vanishing way of life. An extraordinary story of the transcendent, enduring power of love—between husband and wife, mother and child, and longtime neighbors. An essential novel for our times.

Author : Dennis Bock
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443415651

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Olympia by Dennis Bock Pdf

Drawing on imaginary outtakes from Riefenstahl's infamous film of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Dennis Bock weaves together the lives of a family living in the shadow of history. Olympia is the story of post-war German immigrants, as told by their son Peter, born in the New World and raised in the sixties and seventies. Though great figures and events of mid-century touch the lives of this remarkable family, it is the private histories, the grand failings and small triumphs of Peter's family that remain etched in the reader's imagination. From Ruby's struggle to rise above her leukemia and her father's love of severe weather and killing tornadoes, to the saint who witnesses a miracle at the bottom of a drowned Spanish village. Set against the backdrop of some of the most significant Olympic moments of our times--the Nazis' stylish and sinister glorification of the Berlin Olympics and the 1972 Munich hostage-taking in which 11 Israelis were murdered--Olympia offers a bold and refreshing perspective on the tragic relationship between Germans and Jews in this century. Bock writes with insight and clarity in a breath-taking, beautiful prose that signals the debut of a brilliant new talent.

Author : Sarah Singleton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781847388872

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The Poison Garden by Sarah Singleton Pdf

It is the 1850's, and a young boy, Thomas, leaves his family to be apprenticed to a pharmacist, at the behest of his dead grandmother. He also inherits a magical box from her, which provides him entry into a mysterious garden. But while visiting it, he sees a ghostly vision of his grandmother, who tells him she was poisoned, and warns him that he must find the person responsible, and save her precious garden. For she was one of five members of an arcane guild, each of whom cultivated an individual garden, mastering the art of poison, perfume and medicine. The guild members jostle for power as, one by one, they are murdered... can Thomas solve the mystery, before he in turn is threatened?

Author : Stuart MacBride
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008208332

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The Coffinmaker’s Garden by Stuart MacBride Pdf

A Sunday Times bestseller for the w/c 11th January 2021

Author : Dennis Bock
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400096091

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The Communist's Daughter by Dennis Bock Pdf

The Communist's Daughter is a sweeping novel of love and betrayal spanning the trenches of the Great War to the horrors of Spain and China. Norman Bethune was a visionary whose dedication touched millions. Rebelling in childhood against his father's religion, he finds a calling himself, saving lives on the battlefield. In Republican Spain he fulfills his idealism, yet before long politics destroy his romance and drive him to seek refuge in China. Here, in service to a man eventually known as Mao Zedong, Bethune begins this account of his life and his cherished beliefs for the only person who still makes a future seem possible: the daughter he has never seen.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387092752

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Dennis Bock
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385349697

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Going Home Again by Dennis Bock Pdf

After two acclaimed historical novels, one of Canada’s most celebrated young writers now gives us the vibrant, contemporary story of a man studying the suddenly confusing shape his life has taken, and why, and what his responsibilities—as a husband, a father, a brother, and an uncle—truly are. Charlie Bellerose leads a seminomadic existence, traveling widely to manage the language academies he has established in different countries. After separating, somewhat amicably, from his wife, he moves from Madrid back to his native Canada to set up a new school, and for the first time he forges a meaningful relationship with his brother, who’s going through a vicious divorce. Charlie’s able to make a fresh start in Toronto but longs for his twelve-year-old daughter, whom he sees only via Skype and the occasional overseas visit. After a chance encounter with a girlfriend from his university days, a woman now happily married and with children of her own, he works through a series of memories-including a particularly painful one they share-as he reflects on questions of family, home, fatherhood, and love. But two tragic events (one long past, the other very much in the present) finally threaten to destroy everything he's ever believed in. This edition includes a reading group guide.