After The Wall
7 best books like After The Wall (Jana Hensel): Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, The Future of Nostalgia, Untenrum frei, Alte weiße Männer: Ein Schlichtungsversuch, The Mystery at the Moss-covered Mansion, The German House
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
Author | Nina Willner |
ISBN | 0062410334 |
In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall...
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Author | Ross Gay |
ISBN | 0822963310 |
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death,...
Author | Svetlana Boym |
ISBN | 0465007082 |
Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist...
Author | Margarete Stokowski |
ISBN | 3498064398 |
War es das jetzt mit der sexuellen Revolution? Sind wir unendlich liberal, weil mit nackten Brüsten für Tierfutter und Baumärkte geworben wird? Mitnichten, sagt Margarete Stokowski. Es gilt auch noch im 21. Jahrhundert, Machtstrukturen aufzusprengen, über Sexualität zu sprechen und über...
Alte weiße Männer: Ein Schlichtungsversuch
Author | Sophie Passmann |
ISBN | 3462052462 |
»Beweis erbracht: Unbestechlichen Feminismus gibt es auch in lustig. Sogar in sehr lustig! Großartig!« Anne Will.
Sophie Passmann ist Feministin und so gar nicht einverstanden mit der Plattitüde, der alte weiße Mann sei an allem schuld. Sie will wissen, was hinter diesem Klischeebild...
The Mystery at the Moss-covered Mansion
Author | Carolyn Keene |
ISBN | 1557092648 |
Nancy's father Carson Drew enlists her help in tracking down a missing heiress, and Nancy, Bess and George stumble upon a mysterious moss-covered mansion. The girls learn someone was murdered near the mansion and they hear strange noises coming from inside the building. Action bounds in this thrilling...
Author | Annette Hess |
ISBN | 0062976451 |
Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess’s international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator—caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power—as...