![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These diaries are certain to become not only the main primary source for historians of the Nazi period, but also an essential read for anyone who wishes to understand what it was like to be a Jew living in Germany during the 1930s. Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's. The historical record is very much the richer for it' David Pryce-Jones, Financial Times Read more 'This extraordinary book describes in detail, and with unparalleled force and clarity, what it was like to live in Germany under Nazism. Shocking and moving by turns, it is a remarkable and important document. Saved for much of the war from the Holocaust by his marriage to a gentile, he was able to escape in the aftermath of the Allied bombing of Dresden and survived the remaining months of the war in hiding. ssive Nazi act against the Jews must be the last. Throughout, he remained loyal to his country, determined not to emigrate, and convinced that each succe. ![]() Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages at Dresden. I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41 ![]()
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I knew this was going to be a good one by the end of the second chapter, but even then I didn't expect this level of entertainment. I can't express how much I enjoyed this audiobook. Still, I liked the main character when he was in the other books, so I gave it a shot. I'm a fan of Dakota Krout and his Divine Dungeon universe, but I hadn't heard of this Vanderkerken fellow. I didn't know what to expect from this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jove, how could he? Not only lie to Morrigan but everyone. He was mad, he felt betrayed, he felt lied to. "Jack could not believe what he just witnessed. ![]() Originally I wanted to make this much longer and deeper, really writing about their relationship but it ended up being a short fic with a happy ending. ![]() We all know that scene when Jack witness Morrigan being surrounded by blinding Wunder and while rereading the scene I wondered what Jupiter possibly could've said to him. Takes place in the first book: Nevermoor by Jessica Townsends. 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Lately, I’ve had the privilege and the pleasure of watching a series of short videos produced by the Norbertine canons of St. Of course, film is not just major motion pictures. ![]() Don’t get me started on Hollywood’s “future without Christ,” and don’t even mention “The Force.” in 2014, although that was mostly to charge at one of my personal windmills: the lack of religion in futuristic films (see “ Godless Space”). And after all, I did review what I guess we can now call Vol. I could argue the point another way: Catholics may be as interested in, say, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2. ($145-million in its opening weekend), as in any hypothetical Catholic film. I enjoy watching movies and reviewing them for TCT, but my inclination is not to review films unless they have some clear connection to the interests of Catholic readers. This has not been a great year for film so far – not from my point of view at least. ![]() ![]() ![]() Segel's performance is lively enough for those of all ages to enjoy." - AudioFile ![]() This fun middle-grade story would make good listening on a car trip. "It will be evident to listeners that Jason Segel is having fun narrating his first book. “In Segel’s reading, we get many versions of him – bellowing villain, hissing snakes, exhausted dad and wisecracking stepmom… exudes an exuberant joy in the telling and an absence of cynicism that suits a writer of middle-grade fiction.”- New York Times And he’s going to need all the help he can get, or it might just be lights-out for Charlie Laird. Nightmares can ruin a good night’s sleep, but when they start slipping out of your dreams and into the waking world-that’s a line that should never be crossed.Īnd when your worst nightmares start to come true.well, that’s something only Charlie can face. What Charlie doesn’t know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. He had to move into her purple mansion, which is NOT a place you want to find yourself after dark.ģ.He can’t remember the last time sleeping wasn’t a nightmarish prospect. His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch.Ģ. ![]() Jason Segel, multitalented actor, writer, and musician, teams up with New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Miller for the hilariously frightening, middle-grade novel Nightmares!, the first audiobook in a trilogy about a boy named Charlie and a group of kids who must face their fears to save their town. 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Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() I still haven’t discovered my fangs though, but now if I think on it I might have put them into a glass of water somewhere in my mountain castle and forgot about them. Page count: 480 (Paperback) 418 (Kindle Edition)ĩ9% sure I’m not a vampire, but some of y’all seem to believe that everyone in Romania is from Transylvania and we all have fangs and hate garlic with a passion so you make me question my initial statement with your fairytale determination. Genre: Young Adult Historical Fiction Mystery Could it be a copycat killer…or has the depraved prince been brought back to life? What she finds brings all her terrifying fears to life once again.In this New York Times bestselling sequel to Kerri Maniscalco’s haunting #1 debut Stalking Jack the Ripper, bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. ![]() ![]() Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe’s best schools of forensic medicine… and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became a legend.īut her life’s dream is soon tainted by blood-soaked discoveries in the halls of the school’s forbidding castle, and Audrey Rose is compelled to investigate the strangely familiar murders. ![]() Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper’s true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. ![]() |