B. C. led Carly Samuels, her eyes red and puffy, in to meet Richard. Motioning for her to sit, he started, “Mrs. Samuels, I'm Lieutenant McClain. Your husband is in a lot of trouble and we need your help.” She immediately blurted out, ...
"A compendium of aphoristic passages, a flipbook of presences and absences, an exquisitely minimalist travelogue-cum-commonplace book, a remembrance of things past by way of the fragment: it is difficult to categorize this text, which was ...
If Matthias is caught by the Stasi's neighbourhood spies with the records or books Drew has given him, he will be sent to a work camp for 're-education'.
Set in the tumultuous year leading up to the surprise overnight raising of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, and illustrated with dozens of real-life photographs of the time, Walls brings to vivid life a heroic and tragic episode of the Cold ...
The questions this book summons are both intriguing and profound: Did walls make civilization possible? And can we live without them? Find out in this masterpiece of historical recovery and preeminent storytelling.
There are many Berlin Walls, and one need only look carefully to begin to see them. ... 13 If only temporarily, the events organized by Artists Without Walls transform a concrete barrier into a stage for social exchange and political ...
The questions this book summons are both intriguing and profound: Did walls make civilization possible? And can we live without them? Find out in this masterpiece of historical recovery and preeminent storytelling.
For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia,...
Walls of all sorts: social walls, border walls, political walls, emotional walls, big walls, old walls, and small walls.
The world’ s walls are supposed to be coming down.
An unforgettable hero. A fresh and unique voice.Meet Ned Harrison Arkle-Smith - he's grumpy, bossy, and exasperating, but you can't help liking him. Oh, and he's just discovered he can walk through walls . . .Ned's world is collapsing.
Some walls define Us from Them with Medieval clarity. Some walls encourage fear or feed hate. Some walls steal. Others kill.
This book about walls is genuinely exciting and alive with insights, elegance, rigor, style, and thoughtful humanism.
"This is the debut of a major new talent. Straightforwardly brilliant writing. This book is so honest, so American, so true to what it is like to be young in America today.