This unique and true story of a young boy, skillfully describes the small Jewish agricultural village of Dowgalishok in eastern Poland (modern-day Belarus) and its neighboring towns of Radun and Eishishok. With a loving eye for detail the Jewish atmosphere is brought to life along with the village inhabitants, from the pastoral days before the Second World War to its sudden destruction by the Nazi regime. The first part of the book is a vivid description of Yiddish-kite that has vanished forever. The second part is a bleak testimony of a survivor of the ghetto and the slaughter beside the terrible death pit outside Radun. The third and last part of the book is the story of twenty-six months of escape and struggle for life, first in the woods among farmers and later on as a partisan in the nearby ancient forest. The author tells his story in a simple and fluent style, creating both a personal testimony and a historical document. The Hebrew edition of the book was well received by many critics, both in Israel and around the world, for its deeply moving quality as well as for its documental value as a record of one of the darkest chapters of mankind.

Follow the story of a dog named Skye, who really was found in a skip and after many adventures, her return home after six years. This heart warming true tale is a tribute to the power hope, and of the microchip!

Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet - the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don't see from the orchestra circle. In this love letter to the art of dance and the sport that has been her livelihood, NYCB's first Asian American female soloist Georgina Pazcoguin lays bare her unfiltered story of leaving small-town Pennsylvania for New York City and training amid the unique demands of being a hybrid professional athlete/artist, all before finishing high school. She pitches us into the fascinating, whirling shoes of dancers in one of the most revered ballet companies in the world with an unapologetic sense of humour about the cutthroat, survival-of-the-fittest mentality at NYCB. Some swan dives are literal: even in the ballet, there are plenty of face-plants, backstage fights, late-night parties, and raucous company bonding sessions. Rocked by scandal in the wake of the #MeToo movement, NYCB sits at an inflection point, inching toward progress in a strictly traditional culture, and Pazcoguin doesn't shy away from ballet's dark side. She continues to be one of the few dancers openly speaking up against the sexual harassment, mental abuse, and racism that in the past went unrecognized or was tacitly accepted as par for the course - all of which she has painfully experienced firsthand. Tying together Pazcoguin's fight for equality in the ballet with her infectious and deeply moving passion for her craft, Swan Dive is a page-turning, one-of-a-kind account that guarantees you'll never view a ballerina or a ballet the same way again.

Hazel Hendry is a remarkable woman. She worked tirelessly raising money for charities, and particularly for TEARFUND, including walking the form of a cross from John Oa Groats to Lands End and from Ramsgate to Fishguard in Wales. When the Croatian War began, the founder of TEARFUND, George Hoffman, told her, a Hazel, the people of Croatia need your helpa . So she raised money to send over 50 lorries, full of much needed supplies of food, furniture, medical equipment and toiletries, into Croatia. She travelled personally with many of them during and after the war. Hazel delivered aid right to the Front Line risking her life to help people who had lost their homes, livelihoods, and families. This book is about her experiences during those dangerous years, and the people who helped her and those that she helped. It is based on journals which she kept at the time and later recollections of particular people and events. As such, it is a vivid account of how the Croations in the War Zone suffered at the hands of the Chetniks who would attack their villages while leaving neighbouring villages in Croatia where Serbs lived unscathed. Some of the details that she recalls are not for the squeamish, but the way in which her faith supported her throughout this period shines through on every page.

The book contains stories on various subjects, starting with the contemplations of passengers in an airplane during a fictitious flight on various situations in their life, through the memories captured by ZS during his study and work, as well as stories based on pub talks and on the imagination of the author.

a RA ALISER UN RA VE A 75 ANSa Ca est le rA (c)cit da une aventure extraordinaire, la rA (c)ussite da un circuit de la Suisse A pied, A vA (c)lo et en kayak, en suivant au plus prAs la ligne frontiAre. Une distance totale de prAs de 2a 500 km et 120a 000 m de dA (c)nivelA (c) (environ 13 fois la hauteur de la Everest!) parcourue en 115 jours en 2015 et 2016, dans des conditions parfois dangereuses, hors des sentiers battus. Au cours de cette pA (c)riode, la auteur a escaladA (c) un peu plus da une centaine de sommets et un nombre A (c)quivalent de cols sur la frontiAre, y compris des sommets mythiques comme le Mont Rose et le Cervin; il a fait de la randonnA (c)e dans le Jura, le Tessin et les Grisons et du kayak sur le lac LA (c)man et le Rhin. Ca A (c)tait aussi un exploit, A 75 ans! Le livre comprend des sections sur la contrebande et des exemples de retrait des glaciers, ainsi qua une trentaine da A"histoires de frontiAreA", qui constituent une source da informations prA (c)cieuse sur la histoire et la gA (c)ographie de la frontiAre suisse.

Daughter. Wife. Mother. Mystic. Discover the life of this fifteenth century merchant's wife from King's Lynn who despite being unable to read or write created the first autobiography in English. Explore Margery's world of visions, pilgrimages and the constant threat of being burned for heresy.

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire celebrated its centenary year in 2017. In the past one hundred years, the order has gone from a way of rewarding men and women of all walks of life for service during the Great War to one of the most recognisable orders in the world.

After losing his wife to cancer and suffering mental health problems, Jamie Rogers knew that things could be made better. Sharing stories of other bereaved fathers, interleaved with information regarding hospice help, this book is designed to dispel some of the myths surrounding hospice care.

The journal of an Englishman's solo trip across Northern India Have you ever considered visiting the Taj Mahal or exploring the pink city of Jaipur? Or maybe a trek to see a tiger in the wild is more to your taste? Join me on my adventures where I encounter colourful temples, tempting curries and eventful drives along some of the world's most dangerous roads.

Having skippered and delivered in excess of 750 Motor Cruisers over the past 40 years, totalling a distance equivalent to 29 times around the world, has provided me with a number of adventurous and sometimes hair-raising stories to tell. Thankfully, I have lived to tell the tales! "Homeward Bound" starts with daily notes of the author's last single-handed voyage from the south of France to the south coast of England. In between these notes he recalls some of his memorable adventures, which he tells in such a way that the reader could almost be there with him, often experiencing how quickly a difficult situation at sea can turn into a disastrous one. Although showing the serious side of sailing there is also a fair amount of humour in his writing. An enjoyable and entertaining read.

Eager Traveller was written for the grandchildren of the author in order that they should see how different life was fifty years ago. It is the story of a London child, dominated by a stern father, who spent much of her time in the company of loving relatives. On leaving school her father sent her into private service where she was the lowest of the low, and made to take orders from all and sundry. She enjoyed the travels of the great families and their families and their servants as they moved about the country following the huntin', shootin' and fishin' seasons. She married a farm worker and as there was little money she was unable to travel, so she became an "Armchair Traveller" until chance and someone's bad luck took her abroad for the first time at the age of forty-one. From then on travel came frequently and the greatest adventure came in 1971 when she took her family behind the Iron Curtain into Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. They found kind and happy people who, although they had known great sufferings, showed kindness to the "Engleski". A strong psychic thread runs through the story

Whatever happens in life, Rosemary Solomon has an amazing gift for finding God in there somewhere. Rosemary's Ramblings is a light-hearted look at the kind of everyday experiences that life throws at all of us. In this, her first book, she offers a collection of 45 Ramblings, each a short story in themselves. The book has appeal across the board. No previous knowledge of faith, God or the bible is required. Reverend Rosemary Solomon is a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the United Reformed Church. She shares her home and her life with her husband Jeff and greyhound Blackie (and God!).

Journalist Kate Young decided to combine the trip of a lifetime with a wacky writing challenge to raise money for the Earl Mountbatten Hospice on the Isle of Wight. Starting from post-Olympic Beijing, she lost her soul to the Mongolian steppes; survived the hurly-burly of Ulaanbaatar; escaped amorous advances near Lake Baikal and made it to the Tsarist majesty of Moscow in a poignant trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Football supporters, over the years, have garnered a pretty poor reputation, often regarded as anti-social yobs, or foul-mouthed hoodlums - and at times that reputation has been well deserved. Some supporters though, fare worse than others, and fans of Rangers Football Club seem to be particularly vilified, very often castigated en masse as nothing more than Neanderthal, knuckle-dragging, bigoted thugs. Well, I'm a Rangers fan and I'm none of the above! And neither, for that matter, are any of my friends or associates. Rangers' supporters are in fact just normal hard working folk who love their football team. This is my story, from a schoolboy in Clydebank, to a married man in East Calder. Growing up, maturing as I watch my football team. I experience sporting joy and triumph, just as I suffer pain and tragedy, my personal life intertwining with the fortunes of my favourites, the Rangers. It's off to the match I go - My journey with the 'Gers