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![]() ![]() ![]() Kovály’s memoir describes in detail the continuing anti-Semitism that Jews returning from concentration camps faced. The only member of her family to survive the war was her husband, Rudolf Margolius. Kovaly took part in the Prague uprising against the Nazis in May 1945. ![]() Of Jewish ancestry, she spent the years of the Second World War in the Lodz Ghetto and then in concentration camps Auschwitz and Gross Rosen sub-camps including Christianstadt.Īfter her camp was evacuated, she escaped from a death march and made her way back to Prague, where many of her friends refused to take her in due to the Nazis’ harsh punishments for those sheltering camp escapees. The book is also available in Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Romanian, Spanish and the original Czech edition. The memoir was originally written in Czech and published in Canada in 1973 under the title “Na vlastni kuzi” by 68 Publishers, a well-known publishing house for Czech expatriates in Toronto.Īn English translation appeared the same year as the first part of the book The Victors and the Vanquished published by Horizon Press in New York.Ī British edition of the book excluded the second treatise and was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson under the title “I Do Not Want to Remember” in 1973. Mahi is the publisher of the book translated into Persian by Razieh Khoshnud. TEHRAN – Czech writer Heda Margolius Kovaly’s memoir “Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968” has been published in Persian. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On a visit to blustery Newfoundland to examine some slabs of sediment laid down more than 500 million years ago, he notes a sign instructing visitors to “remove footwear before visiting fossil bearing surfaces.” “I confess,” he writes, “that the idea of taking off one’s boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had its funny side.” Or, on learning that the lamprey was still to be found on the menu in Lithuania, he “trotted around the cobbled, sloping streets” of Vilnius, looking for a restaurant that served this primitive fish. But he is also alive to the absurdities that crop up in the course of his quest. We accompany him to the hot springs of Yellowstone, where he examines organisms even more archaic than those growing in the tepid West Australian seas, and up into the Sierra de Tramontana in Mallorca to look for something called a ferreret, aka the Mallorcan midwife toad.įortey’s descriptions of these places are charming little exercises in travel writing and constitute one of the great pleasures of the book. Thus, we travel with him to New Zealand to examine a segmented creature called the velvet worm (which turns out to be neither velvety nor exactly wormlike), as well as a lizard-like reptile known as the tuatara whose closest kin was last seen in the Triassic. Here, the author sets himself the task of visiting the home of each of the “living fossils” he has chosen to represent a particular period of deep time. ![]() ![]() ![]() To make matters worse, no one is looking in the right places and Sophie must search for Mina's murderer on her own. Mina's brother won't speak to her, her parents fear she'll relapse, old friends have become enemies, and Sophie has to learn how to live without her other half. After a forced stint in rehab, Sophie returns home to a chilly new reality. When the cops deem Mina's murder a drug deal gone wrong, casting partial blame on Sophie, no one will believe the truth: Sophie has been clean for months, and it was Mina who led her into the woods that night for a meeting shrouded in mystery. Sophie survives, but Mina is not so lucky. Sophie and her best friend Mina are confronted by a masked man in the woods. The second time, she's seventeen, and it's no accident. The first time, she's fourteen, and escapes a near-fatal car accident with scars, a bum leg, and an addiction to Oxy that'll take years to kick. ![]() Don’t miss Tess Sharpe’s new novel, 6 Times We Almost Kissed (and One Time We Did). ![]() ![]() Now, we know that you want even more info. Mark your calendars, because both editions will be available on January 3, 2023. I’ve gone back to faerie so many times that I think it’s a settled fact that I will continue to go back.”Īnd now Cosmopolitan is exclusively announcing the new Book of Elfhame and yes, this is an entirely new series following Oak and.wait for it.Suren! “I didn’t want to have it be too long since I’d been there. I was working on my first adult novel, Book of Night, through most of the pandemic, but I was looking forward to coming back to faerie, characters I knew, and a world I’m so familiar with and really enjoyed being in,” she revealed to Cosmopolitan. “I actually knew I was gonna do this when I was finishing up Queen of Nothing. ![]() After the end of The Queen of Nothingleft us wondering if there was anything left in the Folk of the Air series, Holly has secretly been hard at work on the next story. ![]() ![]() That’s right, the queen of faerie herself, Holly Black, is taking us back with the help of some very familiar faces. Pour some faerie wine and try not to get too caught up in the music, because it’s time for us to return to Elfhame. ![]() ![]() ![]() With her husband’s memory fading, Ann attempts to piece together the truth of what happened to Wade's first wife and to their daughters. Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged landscape in northern Idaho, where they are bound together by more than love. ![]() HENRY-AWARD WINNING AUTHOR EMILY RUSKOVICH COMES A STUNNING DEBUT NOVEL ABOUT LOVE AND SACRIFICE, FAMILY AND FRIENDSHIP, THE VIOLENCE OF MEMORY AND THE EQUAL VIOLENCE OF ITS LOSS. O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE "Haunting, propulsive, and gorgeously written, this is a debut not to be missed." -People Magazine FROM O. Ruskovich allows her characters deep and active imaginations, imbuing them with dignity and humanity. “A wrenching and beautiful book.” -The New York Times a textured, emotionally intricate story of deliverance.a completely immersive world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An opinionated autodidact of the first water, a fierce battler both against censorship of rock lyrics and for teen-age voting, an admirer of Varese, Webern and Stravinsky who has had his own uncompromisingly modern music conducted by Zubin Mehta and Pierre Boulez, Zappa loves to mock convention in the best, most deliberately chaotic Dada style.Įxpecting this man to write a decorous, orthodox book is like expecting Manners the Butler to burp in public. Z, is both surprising and contradictory.Ĭertainly Frank Zappa, eminence grise of the Mothers of Invention, is the unlikeliest rock star this country-or any other one, for that matter-has produced. Is “The Real Frank Zappa Book” really a book? Can an author who starts out by saying, “I don’t want to write a book, but I’m going to do it anyway,” who grudgingly admits that “I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy,” be counted on to produce anything worth reading? The answer, as nearly everything else about the protean Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() How do you think Olive perceives boundaries and possessiveness, especially in regard to relationships?.Does it seem fitting to you that Olive would not respond while others ridiculed her body and her choice of clothing at Christopher and Suzanne’s wedding?.In “A Little Burst,” why do you think Olive is so keen on having a positive relationship with Suzanne, whom she obviously dislikes? How is this a reflection of how she treats other people in town?.How does Kevin (in “Incoming Tide”) typify a child craving his father’s approval? Are his behaviors and mannerisms any way like those of Christopher Kitteridge? Do you think Olive reminds Kevin more of his mother or of his father?. ![]() ![]() Why does Henry tolerate Olive as much as he does, catering to her, agreeing with her, staying even-keeled when she rants and raves? Is there anyone that you tolerate despite their sometimes overbearing behavior? If so, why?.What freedoms do the residents of Crosby, Maine, experience in contrast with those who flee the town for bigger “ponds” (California, New York)? Does anyone feel trapped in Crosby, and if so, who? What outlets for escape are available to them?.Which characters are most affected (or fascinated) by the idea of killing themselves? How would you say Olive changed as a person during the course of the book?.Have you ever met anyone like Olive Kitteridge, and if so, what similarities do you see between that person and Olive?.Do you like Olive Kitteridge as a person?.Questions for Discussion Olive Kitteridge ![]() ![]() ![]() The truth beneath the truth is not only dangerous, it’s deadly. And everyone from the Senator to the mob want Myron to stop digging. Myron pries a bit and finds himself prying open the past where six years before, Valerie’s fiancee, the son of a senator, was brutally murdered by a juvenile delinquent and a straight A student was subsequently gunned down on the street in retaliation, his death squandered in bureaucratic files. But why is his phone number in Valerie’s black book when he claims only to have known her in passing? Why was she calling him from a phone booth on the street? The police stop caring once they pin the murder on a man known for having stalked Valerie and seen talking to her moments before the murder. Duane was playing in a match at the time of Valerie’s death. ![]() Open and Myron’s number one client becomes the number one suspect.Ĭlearing Duane’s name should be easy enough. That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. ![]() Myron, who’s also got the hottest young male tennis star, Duane Richwood, primed to take his first grand slam tournament, couldn’t be happier. Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who’s now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her agent. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a library cat was removed from its institution in Putnam Valley, New York, the institution suffered financially. ![]() Another considered removal was because of the library cat's reaction to service animals. In one case, there were attempts to remove a cat from a library, based upon concerns of patrons with allergies claiming violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The relationship between libraries and cats is at times contentious. Many cats enjoy high-profile professional roles of marketing and public relations. Library cats have appeared as characters in books and movies, are immortalized in stone in front of their institutions, and some are given positions on the institution's board. During the nineteenth century, the British government compensated those libraries that housed cats, on the understanding that they kept rodents away from books. The descendants of these cats now live in the State Hermitage museum. ![]() In 1745, Russian Empress Elisabeth published an order to transport cats to her court. Monastic records from the Middle Ages indicate cats were kept in medieval monasteries in order to control rats that might otherwise eat valuable manuscripts. The relationship between cats and libraries is centuries old. ![]() |