When I Became Your Grandad

When I Became Your Grandad
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Publisher : When I Became
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1839944498
ISBN-13 : 9781839944499
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis When I Became Your Grandad by : Susannah Shane

A heart-warming picture book about the love between grandfathers and grandchildren - with gold foil on every page!

My Grandfather's Coat

My Grandfather's Coat
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0439925452
ISBN-13 : 9780439925457
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis My Grandfather's Coat by :

A tailor's very old overcoat is recycled numerous times over the years into a variety of garments and other uses.

My Grandad Is A Star

My Grandad Is A Star
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Publisher : Lucky Star Publications
Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : 1838297820
ISBN-13 : 9781838297824
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis My Grandad Is A Star by : Lucy Thatcher

"Always twinkling and brightening my life from near and far, I know this to be true because my grandad is a star" A rhyming tale of love, loss and the everlasting beauty of the relationship between grandparent and grandchild. Follow along as a young girl and her grandad enjoy fun adventures and learn what it means to love your family.

Grandad Mandela

Grandad Mandela
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Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages : 43
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ISBN-10 : 9781786031365
ISBN-13 : 1786031361
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Grandad Mandela by : Ambassador Zindzi Mandela

"...profoundly moving..." —Publishers Weekly Zazi and Ziwelene’s great-grandad is called Nelson Mandela. Once day, they ask their grandmother 15 questions about him and his life. As their conversation unfolds, Zazi and Ziwelene learn that Nelson Mandela was a freedom fighter, a President, and a Nobel Peace Prize–winner, and that they can carry on his work today. Seen through a child’s perspective, authored jointly by Nelson Mandela's great-grandchildren and daughter, and published in collaboration with Mandela Legacy Media, this book brings Nelson Mandela’s incredible story alive for a new generation of children.

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
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Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781615192540
ISBN-13 : 1615192549
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past by : Nikola Sellmair

Now in paperback: The New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as “unforgettable” (Publishers Weekly) and “a stunning memoir of cultural trauma and personal identity” (Booklist). At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf—and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. Reviled as the “butcher of Plaszów,” Goeth was executed in 1946. The more Teege learned about him, the more certain she became: If her grandfather had met her—a black woman—he would have killed her. Teege’s discovery sends her into a severe depression—and fills her with questions: Why did her birth mother withhold this chilling secret? How could her grandmother have loved a mass murderer? Can evil be inherited? Teege’s story is cowritten by Nikola Sellmair, who also adds historical context and insight from Teege’s family and friends, in an interwoven narrative. Ultimately, Teege’s search for the truth leads her, step by step, to the possibility of her own liberation.

Grandfather's Journey

Grandfather's Journey
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 37
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ISBN-10 : 9780547350530
ISBN-13 : 0547350538
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Grandfather's Journey by : Allen Say

A picture book masterpiece from Caldecott medal winner Allen Say now available in paperback! Lyrical, breathtaking, splendid—words used to describe Allen Say’s Grandfather’s Journey when it was first published. At once deeply personal yet expressing universally held emotions, this tale of one man’s love for two countries and his constant desire to be in both places captured readers’ attention and hearts. Fifteen years later, it remains as historically relevant and emotionally engaging as ever.

Grandad's Camper (A Grandad's Camper LGBTQ Pride Book for Kids in partnership with GLAAD)

Grandad's Camper (A Grandad's Camper LGBTQ Pride Book for Kids in partnership with GLAAD)
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 31
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ISBN-10 : 9781499815078
ISBN-13 : 1499815077
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Grandad's Camper (A Grandad's Camper LGBTQ Pride Book for Kids in partnership with GLAAD) by : Harry Woodgate

A Stonewall Honor Book Children's Illustrated Book of the Year--British Book Awards Best Illustrated Book -- Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2022 Discover a wonderful grandfather-granddaughter relationship, as a little girl hatches the perfect plan to get her Grandad adventuring again. And don't miss the inspiring sequel, Grandad's Pride, available now! "As warm and friendly as a kind grandparent." Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW "For the hope for new adventures, and the glimpse of intergenerational kindness and understanding, this lovely book should be on every shelf." School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW Best Picture Books of 2021--School Library Journal Future Classic Picture Books of 2021--Bookstagang's Best of 2021 "An effective tool for teaching empathy, and the intergenerational bond at the story's center is a heartstrings puller. This picture book, in which a girl helps her grandfather embrace life again following the death of Gramps, may well aid young readers in understanding others' grief." Shelf Awareness Gramps and Grandad were adventurers. They would surf, climb mountains, and tour the country in their amazing camper. Gramps just made everything extra special. But after Gramps died, granddad hasn't felt like traveling anymore. So, their amazing granddaughter comes up with a clever plan to fix up the old camper and get Grandad excited to explore again. This beautiful picture book honors love and reminds us not only to remember those we have lost, but to celebrate them.

Me and My Grandad

Me and My Grandad
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : 1788810910
ISBN-13 : 9781788810913
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Me and My Grandad by : Alison Ritchie

Grandad's my hero, he's funny and smart. I love my grandad with ALL of my heart. Little Bear's grandad is brilliant! He can make dens, build campfires and he gives the best bear hugs. And no matter what, he's always there for Little Bear...

I Know This Much Is True

I Know This Much Is True
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 884
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ISBN-10 : 0060391626
ISBN-13 : 9780060391621
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis I Know This Much Is True by : Wally Lamb

With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.

The Nazi's Granddaughter

The Nazi's Granddaughter
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Publisher : Regnery History
Total Pages : 404
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781684511082
ISBN-13 : 1684511089
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nazi's Granddaughter by : Silvia Foti

Hero–or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community. But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story—a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.” The Nazi’s Granddaughter is Silvia’s account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family. A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi’s Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice.