The Plum Tree

Author : Ellen Marie Wiseman
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 149673002X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plum Tree written by Ellen Marie Wiseman and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply moving and masterfully written story of human resilience and enduring love, The Plum Tree follows a young German woman through the chaos of World War II and its aftermath. "Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine B lz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books--and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime. Anti-Jewish posters are everywhere, dissenting talk is silenced, and a new law forbids Christine from returning to her job--and from having any relationship with Isaac. In the months and years that follow, Christine will confront the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau, desperate to be with the man she loves, to survive--and finally, to speak out. "Wiseman eschews the genre's usual military conflicts of daily life during wartime, lending an intimate and compelling poignancy to this intriguing debut." --Publishers Weekly "Ellen Marie Wiseman weaves a story of intrigue, terror, and love from a perspective not often seen in Holocaust novels." --Jewish Book World

Author : Victoria Shorr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393540863
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plum Trees: A Novel written by Victoria Shorr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant tale about one woman’s quest to recover her family’s history, and a story of loss and survival during the Holocaust. Consie is home for a funeral when she stumbles upon a family letter sent from Germany in 1945, which contains staggering news: Consie’s great-uncle Hermann, who was transported to Auschwitz with his wife and three daughters, might have escaped. This seems improbable to Consie. Did people escape from Auschwitz? Could her great-uncle have been among them? What happened to Hermann? Did anyone know? These questions are at the root of Consie’s excavation of her family’s history as she seeks, seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, to discover what happened to Hermann. The Plum Trees follows Consie as she draws on oral testimonies, historical records, and more to construct a visceral account of the lives of Hermann, his wife, and their daughters from the happy days in prewar Czechoslovakia through their internment in Auschwitz and the end of World War II. The Plum Trees is a powerful, intimate reckoning with the past.

Author : Sufiya Ahmed
Publisher : One Story, Many Voices
ISBN 13 : 9781910328460
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Great Plum Tree written by Sufiya Ahmed and published by One Story, Many Voices. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of friendship and courage from the Panchatantra, an ancient Indian collection of animal fables dated to 300 BCE.An unlikely friendship between Miss Bandari and Mr Magarmach forms when the pair meet under the great plum tree, deep in the heart of India. Mr Magarmach is old and his hunting days are over but Miss Bandari loves hearing his stories as they munch plums together. One day their friendship tested but with courage, trust and forgiveness they discover that living happily together tastes just as sweet as Miss Bandari's golden plums. The story of the monkey and the crocodile is a fable from the Panchatantra, an ancient Indian collection of animal fables dated to 300 BCE. But it's a tale from around the world and versions can be found in Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, China, Japan and the Caribbean.

Author : Eugene Field
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486476758
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sugar-Plum Tree and Other Verses written by Eugene Field and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents illustrated versions of the title poem and seven others, including "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" and "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod."

Author : Brooke Astor
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312905453
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Blossom on the Plum Tree written by Brooke Astor and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful, vivacious Emily and plain, disagreeable Irma, two middle-aged, widowed sisters-in-law, fall in love with younger men, Irma with youthful lawyer Charlie Hopeland and Emily with Count Pontecorvo

Author : Martha Agnes Blanchard
Publisher : Cas
ISBN 13 : 9780996435840
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plum Tree written by Martha Agnes Blanchard and published by Cas. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pella and Stacia have big plans for a summer of fun on Helen Island. But when tragedy strikes Pella's family, her life changes as do her chances for excelling at the Common Entrance Exam and getting into a top Secondary School. Determined not to be separated, the friends must work together to beat the odds and rise to the top of their class.

Author : Johanna Hurwitz
Publisher : HarperTrophy
ISBN 13 : 9780688118488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once I was a Plum Tree written by Johanna Hurwitz and published by HarperTrophy. This book was released on 1992-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly aware of the differences between her family, who are nonobservant Jews, and their Catholic neighbors, 10-year-old Gerry Flam begins to investigate her heritage.

Author : Hope Lim
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823443388
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Tree written by Hope Lim and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young boy's beloved plum tree falls in a storm, he feels like he's lost both a friend and a connection to his old home. A young boy, recently arrived from Korea, finds a glorious plum tree in his new backyard. It reminds him of a tree his family had back home, and he names it "Plumee" for the deep purple plums on its branches. Whenever the boy is homesick, he knows he can take shelter in Plumee's tall branches. And when a storm brings the old tree down, he and his friends have all kinds of adventures on its branches, as it becomes a dragon, a treehouse, and a ship in their imaginations. But soon it's time to say goodbye when the remains of the tree are taken away. Before long, a new plum tree is planted, new blossoms bloom, and a new friendship takes root. A South Korean immigrant herself, Hope Lim brings her perspective on the struggle for child immigrants to feel at home to bear through spare, poetic text, perfectly matched by soft, lyrical illustrations by Korean artist Il Sung Na. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author : Michelle Nikly
Publisher : William Morrow & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780688012441
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Plum Tree written by Michelle Nikly and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Musuko's nightingale friend loses his home when his lovely plum tree is chosen to replace a dead one in the emperor's perfect garden.

Author : Naomi Reed
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
ISBN 13 : 1780783809
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plum Tree in the Desert written by Naomi Reed and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten inspiring stories of faith and mission from Asia and the Arab World from the mission agency Interserve. In The Plum in the Desert Naomi Reed tells stories of difficult situations in the mission field; some of victory, some which left the mission workers feeling they had failed. But despite the difficulties and perceived failures, each story speaks of the goodness of God and what it means to persevere and trust in him, even when it seems too hard. These stories give us a new perspective on those perceived failures and remind us that "in all things God works for the good of those who love him". Commendations for The Plum in the Desert: "I smiled, I cried, and I marveled, but most of all I found myself moved to thanksgiving to the Lord as I read through these absorbing stories." Rose Dowsett - mission writer, researcher and former Chair of the Interserve International Council. "These stories of Interserve workers illustrate vividly the flexible and innovative approaches to mission in our day. Gripping, challenging and informative." Martin Goldsmith, author and mission lecturer, All Nations Christian College