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  A-6171: I survived Auschwitz

  Ferenc Göndör

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  On the evening of 20 April 1944, 16-year-old Ferenc Göndör is crushed into the overcrowded synagogue in Ujfehértó. All the Jews in the Hungarian city are to be deported. Ferenc, his mother and his sister are transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his new identity "A-6171" is tattooed on his arm. Ferenc suffers unimaginable atrocities and lives his days surrounded by death.
  
  After the liberation, he returns to Hungary, but none of his closest relatives are alive anymore. He discovers that antisemitism is still rampant and that as the son of a doctor, he has no future in the now communist Hungary. His dramatic flight from his homeland in 1949 finally brings him to Sweden.
  
  Ferenc Göndör (1928–2010) was born in eastern Hungary. He became a Swedish citizen in 1959 and worked at Swedish Radio as a sound engineer. Göndör gave many lectures in which he recounted his experiences from Auschwitz, informed about the Holocaust and warned against repeating history. Göndör inspired many other survivors to tell their life stories

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  When I grow rich say the bells...

  E.B. Harding

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  Inspired by the Life of Rosa Marie Twitchett 
   
  London, 1866. 
   
  Rosa Marie Twitchett is born into the smoke, noise, and poverty of Victorian Shoreditch, where survival depends on hard work, good fortune, and the strength to endure another day. 
   
  As London grows into the greatest city in the world, Rosa watches it change around her. Horse-drawn omnibuses give way to electric trams. The newspapers scream of Jack the Ripper, distant wars, and the glory of Empire. But for women like Rosa, history is measured differently—in rent due on Monday, bread on the table, and children who must somehow be kept alive. 
   
  Inspired by the documented life of a real East London woman, When I Grow Rich, Say the Bells at Shoreditch follows Rosa through love, loss, and impossible choices. Widowed in all but name and abandoned by circumstance, she struggles to raise her young family alone until poverty leaves her with only one heartbreaking option. 
   
  In January 1904, Rosa places her three sons into the care of Dr. Barnardo’s Homes, joining thousands of mothers whose children would become part of the British Home Children migration to Canada. It is a decision that will save their lives—and break her heart. 
   
  Richly researched and grounded in historical records, this novel brings Victorian London’s working class vividly to life through the eyes of a woman history almost forgot. It is a story of resilience, sacrifice, and the extraordinary courage found in ordinary lives. 
   
  Because history remembers the children who sailed away. 
   
  This is the story of the mother who stayed behind.

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  No Ordinary Day - Espionage...

  Matt Johnson, John Murray

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  Winner of the Book of the Year and Reader's Choice awards at the 2024 CrimeCon True Crime Awards. Highly commended at the same awards for Outstanding Investigative Reporting. 
  Winner of the 2024 Capital Crime Fingerprint Award (True Crime). 
  Shortlisted for the 2024 Crime Writers Association ALCS Gold Dagger for non-fiction. 
  Behind one of the greatest tragedies in UK policing history lies an incredible political scandal 
  ‘An important book, especially now’ Lee Child 
  ‘Espionage, betrayal, terrorism, corruption and murder. All the ingredients of a Le Carré novel, only it’s real’ Matthew Hall 
  ‘A powerful and timely account’ John Sutherland 
  On 17 April 1984, as demonstrators gathered outside the Libyan embassy in London, two gunmen lay in wait inside. At 10.18 a.m. automatic gunfire rained down on the protestors and WPC Yvonne Fletcher fell, mortally wounded. 
  As his friend lay dying, PC John Murray made her a promise that he would not rest until those responsible had been brought to justice. Thirty-seven years would pass before he was able to fulfil that undertaking. 
  While researching this moving account of one man’s dogged pursuit of justice for a murdered colleague, Matt Johnson uncovered secret-service deals and government duplicity, all part of a plan to force an end to the National Union of Mineworkers’ strike. He discovered the real reason Yvonne’s killers were allowed to go free and how events that day led to thirty years of growing political control of policing, resulting in the disarray increasingly evident today. 
  This compelling account pulls seemingly unconnected threads into a coherent – and shocking – whole. It provides startling insights into how decisions taken by our politicians and the actions of our intelligence agencies, supposedly in our best interests, may be anything but.

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  My Life in Seventeen Books - A...

  Jon M. Sweeney

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  A memoir for the bookish-inclined, using personal stories to demonstrate how books have a magical way to move a person from one stage of life to the next. 
   
   
   
  "This is a small gem of a book, tender, humble, loving." —Mary Gordon 
   
   
   
  "Sweeney makes a charming companion, telling stories in joyful reflection." —Jeff Deutsch, author of In Praise of Good Bookstores 
   
   
   
  Former bookseller, longtime publisher, and author Jon M. Sweeney shows—with history and anecdotes centering around books such as Thoreau's Journal, Tagore's Gitanjali, Martin Buber's Hasidic Tales, and Tolstoy's Twenty-three Tales—what it means to be carried by a book. He explores the discovery that once accompanied finding books, and books finding us. He ponders the smell of an old volume, its heft, and why bibliophiles carry them around even without reading them. He demonstrates how and why there is magic and enchantment that takes place between people and books.

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  Remember To Forget - An...

  Amelia V. Sinclair

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  Remember to Forget, a gripping and thought-provoking memoir that inspires as it teaches with all the skillful pacing of a psychological suspense novel. 
  The author asks then suggests: What weapons do we have to defend ourselves against deeply hidden assaults from the past? Without the fragments of memory linked together into a full picture of our personal history, we may remain helpless victims. 
  Sex permeates Vernetta’s traumatic young life while living with her single mother and older sister. The chaos of life with Mother and her alcohol-fueled anger emerges in Vernetta’s adult years as a suicidal-depression that propels her into therapy where conflicted personality fragments introduce themselves. Within months, dissociated-forgotten memories of sexual trauma are manifested by severe, incapacitating physical experiences. 
  Throughout her life, Vernetta manages to continue the relationship with her mother. Then after Mother’s death, Vernetta is motivated to search for answers to lingering-mystifying questions, her final pathway to wellness. Why did Mother deliberately burn down her family home at age fifteen? she asks herself. What is the truth of why baby brother Buddy was suddenly gone? And the last relentless question, Why was Mother so angry? Although the search plunges Vernetta into Mother’s murky past, the difficult answers bring restorative healing.

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  What Kind of Love is This? -...

  Charlotte B. Thomason

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  Charlotte Thomason endured unspeakable sexual, physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her parents and other family members throughout her childhood. What Kind of Love is this? Finding God in the Darkness, follows Charlotte as she guides her granddaughter, Angel, through her chaotic life. As the story unfolds, Charlotte is mired in doubt that anyone could love her, let alone God, and her life is torn apart by sexual addiction and mental illness. She realizes her life depends on remembering, accepting God's love and learning to cope with her forgotten childhood trauma. 
  About the Author 
  With a Master of Science in Social Work, a Master of Arts in Cultural Apologetics, over 30 years of experience in social work, and as a survivor of childhood trauma, Charlotte Thomason has seen, both professionally and personally, the devastation created by child abuse.  
  She wants to use her experience to bring hope to those who feel lost and hopeless due to childhood trauma and bring encouragement to those who help them.

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