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We Had To Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport by Deborah Hopkinson

With the same attention to detail and straightforward writing style readers have come to appreciate from her, Deborah Hopkinson looks at how the rescue operation of Jewish children from Nazi occupied Europe, known as the Kindertransport, was able to saved approximately 10,000 young people. In the first half of this fascinating history ,  Hopkinson details Hitler's rise to power and ties its impact into the lives of a number of Jewish families. Most people don't realize just how widespread anti-Semitic feelings were in 1930s Germany, but as Hitler became more popular, as his followers increased, many Jews who had believed themselves to be as German as their non-Jewish neighbors began to experience a definite change. For example, Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps for no reason, prohibitions were enacted so that Jews in civil service lost their jobs, Jews couldn't go to the movies or visit a park, Jewish children were no longer allowed to attend German s...
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An Update & My Book Haul from 6/3 to 6/25!

Hey folks. So I know I've been really MIA lately. I was busy with BEA earlier this month and then staying with a couple of other bloggers for a few days before finally getting settled in at my friend's house. Not long after which, my computer quit working (along with my phone and iPod, but we won't talk about that). I have just recently got it back, fixed and ready to go. I realize I still haven't gotten BEA wrap up posts up yet but I will. I promise! And soon too. I also have an interview and a couple reviews coming up before too long as well. In the meantime, I haven't done anything mentioning the books I've received in quite sometime. So I'm doing a book haul wrap up below that contains all the books I've received between June 3rd and now. This will NOT include BEA books. Those will be in the BEA wrap up posts. Also, not all the books I'll have listed will be in the picture, either because they showed up at home or they are kindle books.



Books from The Strand
~Siren by Tricia Rayburn
~Undercurrent by Tricia Rayburn
~A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont
~Saving June by Hannah Harrington
~The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
~The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter
~Soul Screamers Vol. 1 by Rachel Vincent
~The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore
~House of Dance by Beth Kephart
~ARC Personal Effects by E.M. Kokie

From Booktrader Used Book Store
~Other by Karen Kincy
~The Season by Sarah MacLean
~Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
~13 Treasures by Michelle Harrison

From The Cranbury Bookworm Used Book Store
~The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
~Subject Seven by James A. Moore
~Incantation by Alice Hoffman
~If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan

From Lexie/Tegan
~ARC Transcendence by C.J. Omololu*
~ARC Speechless by Hannah Harrington*
~Spin by Catherine McKenzie*
~13th Reality by James Dashner*
~Isle of Night by Veronica Wolff*
~ARC Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris*
~ARC Point of Origin by Amanda Havard*
~Secret Society by Tom Dolby
~ARC Dearly Departed by Lia Habel
~ARC Illuminate by Aimee Agresti
~Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors

For Review from Author
~ARC Serial Hottie by Kelly Oram*

For Review from S&S
~This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel*
~ARC Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel*

For Review from Netgalley/LB
~Perfect Escape by Jennifer Brown*

Bought for Kindle
~Eve by Anna Carey*
~Shifting by Bethany Wiggins*
~The Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale*
~David by Mary Hoffman*
~Stolen Away by Alyxandra Harvey*
~The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines*
~We Hear the Dead by Dianne Salerni*
~Little Women and Me by Lauren Baratz-Logsted*
 
(* = Not Pictured)





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