Jana Jebáčková Boeken

Dit levendige en aangrijpende narratieve geschiedenis van het meest beruchte concentratiekamp van de Holocaust behoudt de authentieke stemmen van overlevenden en daders. De grootste massamoord in de menselijke geschiedenis vond plaats tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Auschwitz, maar het verhaal is niet volledig bekend. Laurence Rees onthult nieuwe inzichten uit meer dan 100 originele interviews met overlevenden en Nazi-daders die voor het eerst openhartig spreken. Hun getuigenissen bieden een portret van de interne werking van het kamp in ongeëvenaarde detail - van de technieken van massamoord tot de politiek en roddels tussen bewakers en gevangenen, en de bordelen op het kamp waar de lijnen tussen bewakers en gevangenen verrassend vervaagden. Rees onderzoekt de strategische beslissingen die Hitler en Himmler ertoe brachten Auschwitz de primaire locatie te maken voor de uitroeiing van de Joden in Europa. Hij concludeert dat veel van de gruwelen die in Auschwitz werden gepleegd het resultaat waren van een verschrikkelijk immoreel pragmatisme. Het verhaal van het kamp wordt ook een moreel verhaal, waarin het kwaad zich in een reeks subtiele, bijna geruisloze stappen ontwikkelt tot de overweldigende horror van de industriële slachting in de gaskamers van Auschwitz.

A pediatrician and child development specialist combines medical research with personal experience to create a four-step plan for soothing a cranky infant.

As Diana Morrison laid the table for six at her elegant Central Park apartment, she had no warning of what was to come. Spending New Year's Eve together was a tradition for Diana, her husband Eric, and their best friends Pascale and John Donnally and Anne and Robert Smith, and as the friends sipped champagne, they talked of renting a villa together in the South of France the following summer. But life had other plans... Just two weeks after New Year, tragedy strikes at the heart of their close circle as Robert suffers a sudden, tragic loss. Diana and Eric, Pascale and John, united in their love and shared grief, rally to his side and urge him to join them on the Riviera in August. But the ramshackle old mansion is far from the exquisite villa they had imagined, and Robert surprises them all by inviting a lovely, much-younger film actress with mile-long legs and a million-dollar smile. Diana and Pascale hate her on sight, but the men are dazzled, and amidst the crumbling furniture and glorious sunsets more surprises are in store. Old wounds are healed, new love discovered, and miracles unfold... all beneath the dazzling sun of St Tropez.

Romantic comedy. Will Phoebe always live in the shadow of her more glamorous elder sister Alex. Alex is even marrying the man that Phoebe loves.

An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind. He also befriends a deputy inspector of customs named Herman Melville who, largely forgotten as a writer, is condemned to live in the wake of his vanished literary success and in the turmoil of his fractured family.Delving into the depths of this country's heart and soul, Frederick Busch's stunning novel is a gripping portrait of a nation trying to heal from the ravages of war--and of one man's attempt to recapture a taste for life through the surging currents of his own emotions, ambitions, and shattered conscience.