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A delicious collection of childhood photos that transport us back to a time when food was fun and eating was everything. These fun images, paired with witty quotes, tell a story, evoke laughter, stir emotion, and remind us to indulge.
Forever A Stranger' is a story of love, war and family breakdown. It follows the lives of three generations in crisis, spanning the 20th Century. Sid Shavinsky and Esther Kopitch are children when they flee the pogroms of Russia and Poland with their parents in 1904. Both families settle in the East End of London. Sid and Esther marry. Sid enthusiastically enlists to fight for Britain in World War One. He returns home a changed man; an amputee suffering with depression and traumatic stress. The war destroys their marriage and future. Two decades later, daughter Julie is faced with giving birth to an illegitimate child after her fiance Simon disappears. Simon fled Nazi Germany in 1939.
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One woman’s national, political, ethnic, social, and personal identities impart an extraordinary perspective on the histories of Europe, Polish Jews, Communism, activism, and survival during the twentieth century. Tonia Lechtman was a Jew, a loving mother and wife, a Polish patriot, a committed Communist, and a Holocaust survivor. Throughout her life these identities brought her to multiple countries—Poland, Palestine, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Israel—during some of the most pivotal and cataclysmic decades of the twentieth century. In most of those places, she lived on the margins of society while working to promote Communism and trying to create a safe space for her sma...
After Julie completes a family saga spanning the 20th century. 1941. A week before Julie's wedding her fiancé Simon disappears leaving her pregnant. Julie reluctantly decides to give their daughter Sarah away for adoption. She has a difficult childhood with her adoptive parents, compounded by the loss of a younger brother. Sarah leaves home to become a nurse in a London hospital during the Swinging Sixties and marries Paul, a junior doctor. They have children and grandchildren. But insecurities from Sarah's childhood emerge and a succession of life-changing incidents threaten to destroy her. Forever a Stranger is Julie's story After Julie is Sarah's story The books can be read and enjoyed independently. Linda Ferrer lives in north London with her husband. She has three adult children. Retirement gave her the opportunity to do what she always dreamed of. To write for pleasure. This is Linda's second book and is dedicated to her husband Alan and their grandchildren, Lyla and Eli, who never fail to give them so much pleasure.
A visual and verbal study of 140 years and five generations of Jewish culture in Wyoming.
A photo-journey through the homes and lives of 30 families, revealing culture and economic levels around the world.
One of the most pivotal moments in American history is brought to light through stirring, thought-provoking eyewitness accounts from people who have played active roles in the civil rights movement over the past 50 years.
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Accompanying DVD contains footage of the skaters featured in the book as well as additional photographs and an interview with the photographer.