false 7195 39999 0385751060 9780385751063 2105 <![CDATA[The Boy in the Striped Pajamas]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255637390m/39999.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255637390s/39999.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39999.The_Boy_in_the_Striped_Pajamas 3.98 7679
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance.

But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.



From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 9 Up–Boyne has written a sort of historical allegory–a spare, but vividly descriptive tale that clearly elucidates the atmosphere in Nazi Germany during the early 1940s that enabled the persecution of Eastern European Jews. Through the eyes of Bruno, a naive nine-year-old raised in a privileged household by strict parents whose expectations included good manners and unquestioning respect for parental authority, the author describes a visit from the Fury and the familys sudden move from Berlin to a place called Out-With in Poland. There, not 50 feet away, a high wire fence surrounds a huge dirt area of low huts and large square buildings. From his bedroom window, Bruno can see hundreds (maybe thousands) of people wearing striped pajamas and caps, and something made him feel very cold and unsafe. Uncertain of what his father actually does for a living, the boy is eager to discover the secret of the people on the other side. He follows the fence into the distance, where he meets Shmuel, a skinny, sad-looking Jewish resident who, amazingly, has his same birth date. Bruno shares his thoughts and feelings with Shmuel, some of his food, and his final day at Out-With, knowing instinctively that his father must never learn about this friendship. While only hinting at violence, blind hatred, and deplorable conditions, Boyne has included pointed examples of bullying and fearfulness. His combination of strong characterization and simple, honest narrative make this powerful and memorable tale a unique addition to Holocaust literature for those who already have some knowledge of Hitlers Final Solution.–Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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]]> 7195 3.96 9019 2510 2006 586606 0312343590 9780312343590 17 <![CDATA[Crippen: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176049135m/586606.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176049135s/586606.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/586606.Crippen_A_Novel 3.70 61
Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a full-scale hunt for them has begun.

Across the Channel in Antwerp, the S.S. Montrose has just set off on its two-week voyage to North America. Slipping in among the first-class passengers is a Mr. John Robinson, accompanied by his teenage son, Edmund. The pair may be hoping for a quiet, private voyage, but in the close confines of a luxury ocean liner, anonymity is rare. And with others aboard looking for romance, or violence, or escape from their past in Europe, it will take more than just luck for the Robinsons to survive the voyage unnoticed.

An accomplished, intricately plotted novel, Crippen brilliantly reimagines the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most notorious killers and marks the outstanding American debut of one of Ireland's best young novelists.</div></div>]]> 7195 3.96 9019 2510 2004 48004 0312354800 9780312354800 13 <![CDATA[The Thief of Time]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170349194m/48004.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170349194s/48004.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48004.The_Thief_of_Time 3.38 42 Crippen and the bestselling The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Now, for the first time in the United States, comes the book that started the career of the author that the Irish Examiner calls “one of the best and original of the new generation of Irish writers." </div><div>
It is 1758 and Matthieu Zela is fleeing Paris after witnessing the murder of his mother and his stepfather's execution. Matthieu's life is characterized by one extraordinary fact: before the eighteenth century ends, he discovers that his body has stopped ageing. At the end of the twentieth century and the ripe old age of 256 he is suddenly forced to answer an uncomfortable question: what is the worth of immortality without love?</div><div>
In this carefully crafted novel, John Boyne juxtaposes history and the buzz of the modern world, weaving together portraits of 1920s Hollywood, the Great Exhibition of 1851, the French Revolution, the Wall Street Crash, and other landmark events into one man's story of murder, love, and redemption. </div></div>]]> 7195 3.96 9019 2510 2000 3279529 0385666357 9780385666350 11 <![CDATA[Mutiny on the Bounty]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224431343m/3279529.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224431343s/3279529.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3279529.Mutiny_on_the_Bounty 3.94 32
The deal is struck and Turnstile finds himself on board, meeting the captain, just as the ship sets sail. The ship is HMS Bounty, the captain is William Bligh, and their destination is Tahiti.

Mutiny on the Bounty is the first novel to explore all the events relating to the Bounty's voyage, from their long journey across the ocean to their adventures on the island of Tahiti and the subsequent forty-eight-day expedition towards Tiimor.

A vivid recreation of the famous mutiny, the story is packed with humor, high drama and historical detail, while presenting a very different portrait of Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian than has ever been shown before.]]> 7195 3.96 9019 2510 2008 6421824 0385616066 9780385616065 8 <![CDATA[The House of Special Purpose]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6421824-the-house-of-special-purpose 4.00 17 7195 3.96 9019 2510 2009 1528789 0312357974 9780312357979 10 <![CDATA[Next of Kin: A Novel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1528789.Next_of_Kin_A_Novel 3.72 18 John Boyne has been heralded as “one of the most imaginative and adventurous of the young Irish novelists working today” by the Irish Independent. He achieved bestseller status and won numerous awards worldwide for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.  Now in Next of Kin, he steps into the drawing rooms and private clubs of the prewar English aristocracy to offer an unobstructed view of a social elite driven by the conflicting desires to uphold tradition and to acquire vast wealth.

It is 1936, and London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the handsome and charismatic scion of a wealthy family, is anxiously awaiting the reading of his late uncle’s will, for Owen has run up huge gambling debts and casino boss Nicholas Delfy has given him a choice: Find 50,000 pounds by Christmas or find yourself six feet under. So when Owen discovers that he has been cut out of the will in favor of his cousin Stella, he finds that even a royal crisis can provide the means for profit, and for murder.

Next of Kin vividly captures the spirit of 1930s London, revealing the secrets of the upperclass, complete with gambling, murder, an art heist, and a conspiracy to unseat the new king that could change the future of the country.

 

</DIV>]]> 7195 3.96 9019 2510 2006 5528165 0552775290 9780552775298 4 <![CDATA[The Dare]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5528165.The_Dare 3.71 14 7195 3.96 9019 2510 2009 666389 0753813823 9780753813829 2 <![CDATA[The Congress of Rough Riders]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176929095m/666389.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176929095s/666389.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666389.The_Congress_of_Rough_Riders 3.50 6 7195 3.96 9019 2510 2001 7143524 9788496957 0 <![CDATA[O neno do pixama de raias]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7143524-o-neno-do-pixama-de-raias 0.0 0
Unha fábula literaria para todos os públicos, que bebe de fontes como Charles Dickens, John Irving, Philip Roth, Anne Tyler ou Alexandre Dumas...]]> 7195 3.96 9019 2510 3170504 0.0 0 0 2007 7305390 8498382548 9788498382549 0 <![CDATA[El Nino Con El Pijama de Rayas]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7305390-el-nino-con-el-pijama-de-rayas 0.0 0 7195 3.96 9019 2510 2009 7277496 1905483732 9781905483730 0 <![CDATA[From the Republic of Conscience: Stories Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7277496-from-the-republic-of-conscience 0.0 0 3217233 0.0 0 0 3532 3.67 51861 3653 7195 3.96 9019 2510 1351903 3.64 3712 910 52834 3.55 164 25 29997 3.34 136 24 3347 3.83 54006 4674 14080 3.91 1512 421 38951 3.87 9537 2023 10108 3.77 11739 1237 3217234 0.0 0 0 2009 7295495 0141329386 9780141329383 0 <![CDATA[The Adventures of Robin Hood]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7295495-the-adventures-of-robin-hood 0.0 0 13867 3.80 731 114 7195 3.96 9019 2510 2010