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Author : Peter Schneider
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 1998-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226739410
In the Wall Jumper, real people cross the Wall not to defect but to quarrel with their lovers, see Hollywood movies, and sometimes just because they can't help themselves—the Wall has divided their emotions as much as it has their country.
Author : Peter Schneider
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : 9780141187983
Berlin before the fall of the Wall is a city divided, yet its ordinary residents find ways to live and survive on both sides. There is Robert, teller of bar room anecdotes over beer and vodka, adjusting to a new life in the west; Pommerer, trying to outwit the system in the east; the unnamed narrator, who 'escapes' back-and-forth to collect stories; his beguiling, exiled lover Lena; the three boys who defect to watch Hollywood films; and the man who leaps across the Wall again and again - simply because he cannot help himself. All are, in their different ways, wall jumpers, trying to lose themselves but still trapped wherever they go. Ultimately, the walls inside their heads prove to be more powerful than any man-made barrier . . .
Author : Peter Schneider
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0374254842
A "longtime Berliner's ... exploration of the heterogeneous allure of this vibrant city. Delving beneath the obvious answers--Berlin's club scene, bolstered by the lack of a mandatory closing time; the artistic communities that thrive due to the relatively low (for now) cost of living--Schneider takes us on an insider's tour of this rapidly metamorphosing metropolis, where high-class soirees are held at construction sites and enterprising individuals often accomplish more without public funding--assembling a makeshift club on the banks of the Spree River--than Berlin's officials do"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Mechthild Gläser
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250086671
Amy Lennox doesn't know quite what to expect when she and her mother pick up and leave Germany for Scotland, heading to her mother's childhood home of Lennox House on the island of Stormsay. Amy's grandmother, Lady Mairead, insists that Amy must read while she resides at Lennox House—but not in the usual way. It turns out that Amy is a book jumper, able to leap into a story and interact with the world inside. As thrilling as Amy's new power is, it also brings danger: someone is stealing from the books she visits, and that person may be after her life. Teaming up with fellow book jumper Will, Amy vows to get to the bottom of the thefts—at whatever cost.
Author : Jana Hensel
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781586485597
Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with all its hokey comforts: the Young Pioneer youth groups, the cheerful Communist propaganda, and the comforting knowledge that they lived in a Germany unblemished by an ugly Nazi past and a callous capitalist future. Suddenly everything was gone. East Germany disappeared, swallowed up by the West, and in its place was everything Jana and her friends had coveted for so long: designer clothes, pop CDs, Hollywood movies, supermarkets, magazines. They snapped up every possible Western product and mannerism. They changed the way they talked, the way they walked, what they read, where they went. They cut off from their parents. They took English lessons, and opened bank accounts. Fifteen years later, they all have the right haircuts and drive the right cars, but who are they? Where are they going? In After the Wall, Jana Hensel tells the story of her confused generation of East Germans, who were forced to abandon their past and feel their way through a foreign landscape to an uncertain future. Now as they look back, they wonder whether the oppressive, yet comforting life of their childhood wasn't so bad after all.
Author : Peggy Eddleman
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 0307981274
Twelve-year-old Hope lives in a post-World War III town called White Rock where everyone must participate in Inventions Day, though Hope's inventions always fail. Her unique skill set comes in handy after a group of bandits after valuable antibiotics invades the town.
Author : Peter Schneider
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 1992-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0374523584
A tour of Germany after reunification provides anecdotes of the West German people, an East German baker, Bavarian yodelers, Stalinist functionaries, and Western capitalists
Author : Edith Sheffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0199737045
Examines "Burned Bridge," the intersection between two sister cities in East and West Germany, and reveals how the daily adjustments of anxious residents shaped the barrier that divided them.
Author : Steven Gould
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812578546
Davy, who teleports for government cases, is taken captive by a mysterious group of people who brainwash him for their own purposes, forcing Davy's teleportation-capable wife, Millie, to rescue him.
Author : Katherine Woodfine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1471186164
This gorgeously designed retelling of The Nutcracker will make the perfect Christmas present for ballet fans everywhere! In snow white covered St. Petersburg, young dancer Stana’s dreams have finally come true – she has been chosen to play the lead role in Tchaikovsky’s new ballet, The Nutcracker. But with all eyes looking at her, can Stana overcome her nerves and dance like she’s never danced before? From the author of the bestselling The Sinclair Mysteries, Katherine Woodfine, and Waterstone’s Book Prize winner, Lizzy Stewart, this sumptuous and magical retelling of The Nutcracker will transport you on a journey fay beyond the page. Praise for Katherine Woodfine's The Sinclair's Mysteries series: ‘A wonderful book, with a glorious heroine and a true spirit of adventure’ Katherine Rundell, award-winning author of Rooftoppers 'Dastardliness on a big scale is uncovered in this well-plotted, evocative novel' The Sunday Times 'It's a dashing plot, an atmospheric setting and an extensive and imaginative cast. Katherine Woodfine handles it all with aplomb' The Guardian Praise for Lizzy Stewart's There's a Tiger in the Garden (Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017, Illustrated Books Category): ‘A journey of discovery’ The Guardian ‘A stunning testament to the power of imagination’ Metro