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What's a Book Worth?

First Edition Cover"We all have books that grabbed our hearts and minds, books that changed our lives, books that live with us forever.But how good are we at remembering that – at communicating the immeasurable value of books?After all, you can buy a book that might change your life for about the same as two cups of coffee.But that’s just a book’s monetary value. What’s its real value to you?How would you describe that?"

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

As a child, I was all...

Spotlight on Germany

Cologne around 1411
Cologne
The best thing about living in central Europe is the availability of public transportation. Don’t even have to fly. From where I’m sitting, I can be in  Nuremberg in thirty minutes, I can be in Munich two hours, Prague in four hours, Vienna in five, Brussels in, say, seven hours, and London in twelve. High-speed trains. The railway expansion is causing chaos on Bavaria streets at the moment. Everywhere you turn, and I mean everywhere, bridges are shut and r...

Kleider Machen Leute

EARLY MODERN CLOTHING IN THE GERMANISCHES NATIONALMUSEUM
You can tell a lot about a person by the clothes they wear. Just one glance and you can imagine where that person lives, what they do for a living, how much money they have and how they feel about their lives in general. Or can you? ‘Clothes make the man’ is an age-old idiom that means just that: you are what you dress to be.
The practical usage of clothing has long been secondary to its actual function, hasn’t it? Yes, practically speaki...

Museum Monday

Veste Coburg www.coburg.de
The Veste Coburg

Today we're riding on a regional train from Nürnberg. The journey takes an hour and a half and costs 20. We're feeling quite fit, the weather is perfect, so we take on the half hour walk from the train station in Coburg up to the fortress, The Veste Coburg.

In the 11th Century, the hilltop above Coburg housed a monastery. Over the generations, the buildings underwent exstensive expansion the walls were fortified. Today the fortress houses an impressive...

Hoydens & Firebrands

 The Dutch East India Company  The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company, was a trading company founded in 1602. Considered by some to be the first corporation in the world, the VOC was in any case the largest and most impressive trading company in Europe during the Early Modern Period. The Company ruled the trade zone between South Africa and Japan and was granted authority by the Dutch government to build forts, appoint a governing body and to form an...

Hoydens & Firebrands

RECONSTRUCTING THE THIRTY YEARS WAR Judging by the images and the books that are popular today, can you imagine how someone 400 years from now will view our society? How will they reconstruct our day in age based on the records we leave behind? That is, if they can even access our information. What impressions will they have of our culture? continue reading...     

Greetings from the Chaos Kitchen

The Most Awesome Raisin Bread

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Flash Fiction: Just Shy of 800 Words

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The Soldier's Return Introduction

Chapter 1 from The Soldier's Return 
by Laura Libricz

To be realeased in October 2014  

Excerpts from the Journal of Sebald Tucher XI von Simmelsdorf und Sichardtshof


March 1626--This is the last page in my journal. This could well be a reflection of the amount of time I have left. This last chapter comes to a close and I am no longer guaranteed another one. With this entry I mark the end of a decade here at Sichardtshof. I have allowed the last ten years to race by light-heartedly. Th...

The Lady of Shalott

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