Wendy Holden strana 3 z 3
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Gifted and Talented
Welcome to Branston College ...We are an academic institution in the heart of an ancient university town. Our architecture might not feature dreaming spires, but the central dome nonetheless casts a characterful shadow. Amenities include a distinctive subterranean bar and a newly renovated garden where you can observe local wildlife. Diana is starting a new life as gardener at Branston, a challenging restoration project which allows her to indulge a love of delphiniums beneath the disconcerting gaze of dishy but remote Richard, the recently widowed College Master. A new term brings new students, among them It Girl Amber, darling of the gossip columns and dead ringer for inclusion in the university's notorious elite society. As lustful teenagers and crabby tutors run riot in Diana's garden, her peaceful haven is trampled, and then a blast from the past threatens to ruin a new romance. Can anything save Diana's hard-won happiness, let alone her herbaceous borders?
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9,50 €
Lacná kniha Marrying Up (-70%)
She stopped at nothing. To get everything.
Scheming social climber Alexa may be humbly born. But she's a class-hopping cruise missile aimed at the very top of the gold-digging tree. Only a title, mansion and family tiara will do. Befriending feckless aristo Florrie (three surnames plus black hole where her brain should be) means the grandest doors swing open and the prince of her dreams is in sight. But has Florrie's mother, the formidable Lady Annabel, rumbled what Alexa is up to?
Beautiful but penniless student Polly, meanwhile, is in love. Is Max, the handsome young vet she's found in a country lane, quite as ordinary as he seems, however?
Passionate love, eye-widening snobbery and more than naked ambition abound in this contemporary Cinderella tale - a deliciously satirical novel of the upwardly mobile.
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2,70 €
8,99€
Full Monty, The Book/CD Pack
Gaz and five others decide to form a strippers' group. none of the men have stripped before. Gaz must make sure the local women come to the show, so he tells them that the group will take their clothes off. Will these unlikely strippers dare to go for the 'full monty'? The Full Monty is a very popular and funny British film!
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9,20 €
Az auschwitzi tanár
Auschwitz-Birkenauban, a holokauszt legmélyebb poklában volt egy barakk, amelynek falait Walt Disney Hófehérkéjének figurái díszítették, és ahol a gyerekek énekeltek, rajzoltak, színdarabokat adtak elő és verseket írtak. A gázkamrák és krematóriumok árnyékában pluszélelemhez jutottak, gondoskodtak a kártevőmentességükről, és meditálni tanították őket, hogy átélhessék a teli has és a félelem nélküli élet álmát. Aki mindezt megteremtette, egy fiatal zsidó fogoly volt: Fredy Hirsch.Fredy pedagógusi, vezetői képességeit, akármilyen furcsán hangzik, még az SS is elismerte. Mégis, Fredy nap mint nap az életét kockáztatja, amikor jobb ellátásért harcol a láger vezetőivel, vagy épp garanciát kér Mengelétől és Eichmanntól, hogy a gyerekek biztonságát szavatolja. Ráadásul homoszexualitása miatt pedagógusi alkalmassága is újra és újra megkérdőjeleződik.Ahogy telnek a hónapok, egyre fogy az idő Fredy és a rábízott gyerekek számára. Vajon sikerül-e megtanítani a gyerekeknek a legfontosabb leckét: hogyan maradjanak életben Auschwitzban?Wendy Holden történész, életrajzíró az archívumok és a túlélők vallomásai alapján meséli el Fredy Hirsch egyedülálló, mindenki másétól különböző történetét.
Na stiahnutie
12,67 €
Born Survivors
The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new foreword
Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives, and those of their unborn babies.
That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon-B just after the babies were born, before they and their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive and rebuild their lives after World War II. Born Survivors follows the mothers' incredible journey - first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave labour camp where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish 17-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Hundreds died along the way but the courage and kindness of strangers, including guards and civilians, helped save these women and their children.
Sixty-five years later, the three 'miracle babies' met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they now consider each other "siblings of the heart." In Born Survivors, Wendy Holden brings all three stories together for the first time to mark their seventieth birthdays and the seventieth anniversary of the ending of the war.
A heart-stopping account of how three mothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, Born Survivors is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care and to love amid inconceivable cruelty.






