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Obras por Peggy Mann

The Street of the Flower Boxes (1966) 61 exemplares
Last Road to Safety (1975) 33 exemplares
Gizelle, Save the Children! (1980) 31 exemplares
The Secret Ship (1973) 23 exemplares
My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel (1973) 23 exemplares
There Are Two Kinds of Terrible (1977) 18 exemplares
Israel (1960) 14 exemplares
William the Watchcat (1972) 11 exemplares
New Orleans (1958) 8 exemplares
Israel In Pictures (1974) 7 exemplares

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Nome legal
Houlton, Peggy Mann
Outros nomes
HOULTON, Peggy MANN
MANN, Peggy
Data de nascimento
1925
Data de falecimento
1990-07-17
Sexo
female

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Found: Grumpy cat named William em Name that Book (Dezembro 2021)

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The history of Easter Island is so fascinating because it is sufficiently distanced from all other civilizations to have seemingly total isolation, yet such a vast culture that presumably only happens in areas where civilizations are allowed to meet and exchange ideas to improve upon what others have done and compete out of their original humble, and often savage, beginnings. Peggy Mann starts off her book with a very expository look at all of the major visitors to the island to generate a timeline starting from it's first discovery by the western world through the tourists that visit today. These observations revealed the myriad of mysterious marvels that the pascuense people have been sitting on for thousands of years. This was a culture of astronomers, linguists, and masons who all lived on a tiny spec of volcanic rock with minimal vegetation and little to eat but the occasional chicken and endless sweet potatoes.How did these people survive such a harsh area for so long, how did they develop such advanced ideas as astronomy and writing, how did they construct and lift thirty ton stone statues with two ton topknots placed on top of their heads with little more than obsidian picks and transport them across the island, and where on earth did they come from with the closest neighbor being over 2000 km away? Mann explored all these questions in detail with well cited research in this section and came back through in more detail to slowly put the pieces together and give an answer to every single one of those questions over the next two parts. It turns out that most of the mysteries of the island had been put together by researchers as convincingly as one can with modern science, but the layman may not have known these answers, I sure didn't. Going through the book starting with such intense mysteries and following Ms. Mann through the history of the pascuense culture made me feel like I was there putting the pieces together myself just like any good mystery fiction book might make me feel.… (mais)
 
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ehwall | Feb 1, 2017 |
This powerful Holocaust memoir, whose title is taken from the last words spoken to the author by her mother, before they were separated forever by the gas chambers of Auschwitz, follows the story of a young Hungarian Jewish girl who somehow managed to survive three concentration camps, and to help her three younger sisters survive as well.

Fluent in German, Gizelle had the unwelcome distinction of interpreting for the infamous Dr. Mengele, as he decided the fate of his victims, and was able to inflate the ages of her siblings, thereby saving their lives. Through their time at Auschwitz, and then later at Geislingen and Dachau, Gizelle continued to uphold her promise to her mother, watching over the younger girls and their Lagerschwester (camp sister), who together made up a row of five. Upon liberation, the girls eventually found themselves in a refugee camp in Bavaria, where they met General Eisenhower.

I read Gizelle, Save the Children! shortly after Isabella Leitner's Fragments of Isabella, and was struck by the similarities between the two. Both relate the story of a Hungarian Jewish family caught up in the terrible events of the Shoah, in which a group of sisters survive together. Although I went through a period in my adolescence in which I read over thirty Holocaust memoirs (what can I say, I have an obsessive streak?), these two titles stand out in my memory, and I can't help thinking it is because I myself am one of three sisters. Perhaps the suffering of others is most vivid to us, when we can somehow identify personally with the victims?
… (mais)
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AbigailAdams26 | Jun 20, 2013 |
Robbie has had a terrible summer after breaking his arm, but that kind of terrible is nothing compared to when his mother goes into hospital for tests and never returns. Robbie and his father have not had a close relationship and now have to form a close working relationship. Robbie's grief is realistically drawn, as is his father's, as they move into protective shells. Robbie begins to establish a relationship when he realises that his father has had twenty years of memories to grief for, and a marital relationship he has lost.… (mais)
 
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madhamster | Oct 21, 2008 |

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Obras
35
Membros
463
Popularidade
#53,109
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
3
ISBN
51
Línguas
3
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