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Many years after a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways from a storm and receives a gold-and-diamond emblem from a grateful survivor, the captain's son learns of the object's link to a World War II tale about a man's effort to solve his soldier father's murder.
Ilse, who was 21⁄2 months short of her twelfth birthday, was deported from the Jewish orphanage in Prague in mid-October, 1942. She arrived in the concentration camp Terezin, called by the Nazis the "Jewish paradise," when in reality it was the gateway to Auschwitz. Today when Ilse speaks to various groups, mainly school children, she refers to this place as "the center of foolery." She is one of the hundred children out of fifteen thousand who survived Terezin and the horrific typhus epidemic which took the lives of many. Deported for the second time, she found herself in Birkenau/Auschwitz where she passed the inspection at the selection site in front of the infamous Dr. Mengele, who dec...
Gabe and Jenny Steele are looking forward to years, perhaps decades, as retirees. They ask themselves all the right questions: Where should we spend our retirement? Can we afford to move? How will we fill our time in the final chapter of our life? They choose a place, DuPont Landing, a small member-owned community on an island with no bridge which is only accessed by ferry. All motorized transportation on the small island is limited to golf carts. They revel in the natural beauty and solitude, participate in social activities, and watch sunsets on a private beach far from the hustle and bustle of their former urban world. But life often holds many surprises as we journey toward the future. Gabe and Jenny find themselves facing obstacles they never anticipated. This book targets anyone who stands at the threshold of retirement after a long career. If you are relatively healthy, you must account for years, even decades, of future life experiences. As the fictional tale follows the odyssey of the protagonist and his wife as they face challenges and learn new lessons, the story offers the reader food for thought.
Rotting Memory, verrottende Erinnerungen haben wir alle. Abgeschlossene Ereignisse oder vergangene Gefühle schlummern in unseren Köpfen, liebevoll vergraben oder eilig verscharrt. Was aber, wenn eine Erinnerung wie ein Zombie eines Tages in unserer Gegenwart auflebt? So geschah es unseren Friedhofsgräbern, die gemeinsam über eine Frau in ihrer Vergangenheit verbunden sind. Eine abgetrennte Hand findet ihren Weg und holt nicht nur Erinnerungen zurück, sondern zwingt sie, sich in der Gegenwart mit ihr auseinander zu setzen.
Un secreto terrible. Un amor trágico. Una venganza destructora.