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People & places (Children's/YA)March 2018Mi Barrio
by María José Ferrada, Ana Penyas
Every morning Marta goes out and verifies that everytthing is the way it should be: her friends in a terrace playing an eternal game of cards, the same beach as always in the usual place, children having fun in the schoolyard... Just a regular and amazing life in the neighbourhood.
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The Delonix Regia Blossom
by Peng Xuejun
It has been four years since the author’s mother passed away in the special year of 2020. In writing this book, she intends to refresh her memory about her mother. The book vividly tells how the author’s mother strives for growing up in the context of a bad family background, from her childhood to fighting for a job to make a living after growing up, from her romantic love story with her husband to her deep affection for her three children amid the vagrant life. Readers are also able to witness mother’s passion for her career as a teacher and her care for her students, as well as learn how the author forbears sadness when taking record of her mother’s tenacious combat against disease on the sickbed. The whole story is permeated with pure and gentle love and a pleasant atmosphere, but in some chapters, it still gives out solemn, tragic, and powerful emotional strength. Telling the whole life of the author’s mother, the book also depicts that of her grandparents’ and maternal grandparents’ families, three generations in total, in the era back then.
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Monfay chez lez les magiciens du fer (Monfay chez lez the iron wizards)
by Koffivi Assem & Kanad
A city girl gets lost while visiting her grandparents. Accompanied by a young native, she must pass several trials to find her way back.
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Pancake Flowers
by Ma Ruifang
The book Pancake Flowers tells stories of a family in northern China over a century. The several generations of this family experienced very different lives, which reflected the ever-changing and tough situation before and after the birth of New China. In the book, author Ma Ruifang tells stories about her grandparents, parents, brothers, and sisters and incorporates the love for the country and families, and friendship into the stories of every character. The book is full of life wisdom and selfless love, which are deeply moving.
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December 2020The Oasis Man
by Deng Xiangzi, Lin Zi
"The Childhood Sky—Original Picture Books" series is a set of four eco-illustrated books on environmental protection. The concept of environmental protection is established for children in a positive emotional way. "The Oasis Man": The grandparents who originally lived in the city took the initiative to bid farewell to a comfortable life and settled their home in the desert. After more than 10 years of perseverance, they have built an oasis that has become an eternal home for little animals.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2012Aristocratic families in republican France, 1870–1940
by Maire Cross, Elizabeth C. Macknight, David Hopkin
This is a study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic. Elizabeth Macknight draws on a vast range of material from private archives to contest assumptions about the irrelevancy of the nobility under the republican regime. Within a challenging political and economic environment nobles were determined to protect their interests and conserve the integrity of the aristocratic way of life. The convictions that underpinned nobles' responses to government initiatives emerge from the sources with freshness and clarity. Macknight interweaves male and female perspectives to provide a very full account of familial activities and decision-making with attention to all stages of the human lifecycle. Nobles' experiences of parenting and grandparenting, sibling and cousin relations, marriage, property negotiations, and interaction with servants are brought to light in a vivid and engaging narrative. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017Aristocratic families in republican France, 1870–1940
by Maire Cross, Elizabeth Chalmers MacKnight, David Hopkin
This is a study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic. Elizabeth Macknight draws on a vast range of material from private archives to contest assumptions about the irrelevancy of the nobility under the republican regime. Within a challenging political and economic environment nobles were determined to protect their interests and conserve the integrity of the aristocratic way of life. The convictions that underpinned nobles' responses to government initiatives emerge from the sources with freshness and clarity. Macknight interweaves male and female perspectives to provide a very full account of familial activities and decision-making with attention to all stages of the human lifecycle. Nobles' experiences of parenting and grandparenting, sibling and cousin relations, marriage, property negotiations, and interaction with servants are brought to light in a vivid and engaging narrative.
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November 2018Summer Vacation in Nanjing
by Zhou Rui
Zhou Rui, a famous childhood literature writer, wrote this childhood novel in an autobiographical style. It sets the protagonist Qingning as the main clue. With the historical background of China in the 1950s and 1960s, it runs through historical events such as the Liberation War and the Cultural Revolution. The warmth of the strokes tells the love story of Qingning’s parents, his four brothers and sisters, and that his father who suffered in those historical turmoil had to send Qingning from Nanjing to grandparents’ home in Shanghai for fostering. Qingning could reunite with my parents only during the summer vacation. Despite all these uneasiness, he still managed to grow up well with the positive influence of his parents. It shows the joys and sorrows of oridinary people in the social turmoil during the special historical period.
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Photography & photographs2019I feel guilty when I throw away food. Grandma used to tell me about Holodomor (Famine of 1933)
by Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva, introduction by Serhiy Zhadan
Post-photographic research, which explores traces of a traumatic historical event in everyday practices and in contemporary landscape and tests the limits of photography as a medium in trauma representation. The starting point of this project was the personal sense of guilt which accompanies the acts of throwing food away. This feeling is common in contemporary Ukrainian culture and originates in our postmemory - it was imprinted into our generation’s behavioral patterns by the stories of our grandparents - survivors of the man-made famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine called the Holodomor, which killed millions. The ink prints document the thrown-away food while fragments of found black-and-white photographs of unrecognisable landscapes demonstrate the lack of the famine’s traces in the landscape – unlike many collective traumas which have exact geographic locations and present in the landscape in the form of ‘places of memory’.
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True stories2018World War II, Uncontrived and Unredacted. Testimonies from Ukraine
by Vakhtanh Kipiani
The war separated families, took lives, broke fates ... It is very important to know and remember it at any time. Even many decades later, new details, memories, and testimonies appear. This book gathers several fascinating, true family stories written from accounts of parents, grandparents, etc. The authors, whose articles were collected with the help of the popular scientific publication Historical Truth, tell us about the worst war of the 20th century, about the fate of those people whose lives were divided forever into “before” and “after.” Here we can find first-hand accounts about Ukrainians who fought in various armies, about the lives of deported people, about the fate of people taken to compulsory labor camps, and about the men and women who remain in our memories forever. - Historical Truth - honestly and openly about WWII - exclusive materials
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Children's & YAJanuary 2019When I Was a Fox
by Tanya Postavna (Author), Mariya Foya (Illustrator)
Dive in to the magical world of childhood. A little girl with hair as red as those of a fox is growing up in an atmosphere of love under the care of her grandparents. In the book she tells about her daily witty adventures, her most cherished dreams, and the unbelievable miracles that happen to her. The book is about building bridges between children and adults and about the rapid changes in life. The fox represents the love of life, the belief that every day is a true miracle. When I Was A Fox is an important book about the perception of the world that could be read and discussed by all family members. From 6 to 9 years, 5414 words Rightsholders: n.miroshnyk@vivat.factor.ua
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August 2016How to Survive the First Years of School
by Petra Jansen, Stefanie Richter
With a pinch of humor, the authors tell the story of Julia, her husband Peter, and their little whirlwind Alexander, who is starting elementary school. How do the three of them deal with this new stage in Alexander’s life? What problems do they encounter and what do they find stressful? The book sets out to help parents, uncles, aunts, and grandparents understand how children of elementary school age develop. Professionals who work with children of this age may also find it of interest. Petra Jansen and Stefanie Richter are both parents and psychologists. Through the fictional Julia they share their subjective experience as mothers, while also providing background information based on scientific studies. They demonstrate in a clear and entertaining way that some of the problems experienced by children of this age are not unexpected and are no cause for despair. Target Group: Parents of children in their early years at school.
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Humanities & Social SciencesA Childhood with ADHD
by Daniela Chirici
“Your child is out of control: they do whatever they want to you!” or “ADHD? There’s no such thing! You’re just not raising your child properly. The problem is you, not the child.” Do these phrases sound familiar to you? Are you questioning whether you are a good mother or father, since your child is not the way society demands and expects? Daniela Chirici is familiar with both the attacks and with the self-doubt. Her oldest son was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) at an early age. For ten years, until her son reached the age of 19, she regularly wrote for the Swiss ADHD organization. In her texts, she describes how it is to be out and about with a child affected by ADHD and what it means for the whole family. For:• parents, grandparents, and other relatives of childrenaffected by ADHD• teachers• therapists• anyone who wants to find out more about ADHD
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Children's & YA2020The After-Time Chronicles
One Small Spark
by Andy Woodage
In the footsteps of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series comes Andy Woodage's debut novel and our entrance into his bio-engineered fantasy world. The After-Time Chronicles: One Small Spark is a young-adult fantasy novel of good, evil, genetically engineered creatures, romance, blood, and the search for belonging. Imagine a world without oil, where metals are only available if they can be salvaged or recycled. Imagine if coal was running out. It’s a world where armies no longer build metal monsters, but biological horrors. A world where genetic engineering has become the art of war. This is 12-year-old Jothan’s world. Orphaned by a terrible accident, he dreams of leaving his uneventful life with his grandparents on the family’s griffin farm. However, when a catastrophic attack wipes out every homestead in The Zoological Zone, his world is turned upside down. He finds himself thrust into a story larger than he ever dreamed, embarking on a rough journey with a mysteriously appearing warrior to the fabled ‘Temple of Elohim’. Accompanied by his best friend, the griffin Gozell, Jothan sets off across a land ravaged by poverty and wild creatures. Battling his way across the dangerous landscape, his eyes are opened to an empire in the grip of war and unrest... with the ever increasing weight of his role in events to come. Will they make it to the Temple? Will they be welcomed when they arrive? Can Jothan unravel the secrets that seem to control the lives of everyone he meets, including his mysterious saviour?
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The NO. 8 Pedoffie Street
by PÉTERFY GERGELY
Selling Points: The NO 8 Pedoffie Street is a novel created by Hungarian writer Pettifer Galguay for the beautiful Childhood International Children's Coming-of-age Novel series. Focusing on the lives of "left-behind children" in contemporary Hungary, the work depicts the difficult trade-off between parents going out to earn money and spending time with their children, who grow up alone in the face of competition, frustration and danger.The work is full of life atmosphere and the energy of The Times. The parent-child relationship is simple and warm. The display of Hungarian culture and pastoral style highlights the characteristics of foreign culture, which is suitable for children to read at present. Brief Introduction: The story takes place in Hungary after 2014. Anna lives in Budapest, Hungary, with her brother Simon. Anna's dream is to be a painter while Simon wants to be a racing driver.In order to earn more money, Anna's parents went to Germany to work, leaving the children with her aunt Clara.During this period, the children are in all kinds of trouble, feel lonely and helpless and are eager to be with their parents. The summer vacation comes, the children spend a happy summer at their grandparents' home. During getting along with the elderly, they find the answers to their puzzles, gradually understand how to understand the world, explore the inner strength, and learn how to work hard to realize their dreams.
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2020Casas
by María José Ferrada, Pep Carrió
The authors of this book take us on a journey through the different ways of inhabiting a house. Based on illustrations by Pep Carrió made with acrylic markers, the writer María José Ferrada uses poetic language and humor to propose a set of micro stories that invite readers to observe their own ways of inhabiting the world.
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Children's & YAApril 2016The Donkey Family
by Tang Sulan
One day, mom brought back a little boy. From then on, all the family took focus on the baby. The boy’s sister thought parents didn’t love her any longer, so she hided in a cave alone and changed into a donkey. For looking after her, grandpa changed into a donkey too. Did other members of the family change into donkey?
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Children's & YAChangeling
by Kotryna Zylė
Changeling is a rebellious novel about creativity, youth and the raging intensity of teenage emotional life. The gripping story plunges the reader into the depths of a mystical town, a haunting and haunted place, where boundaries between the real and the otherworldly become dangerously blurred. A strange and electrifying tale of teenage disenchantment, Changeling is a work of stunning emotional force that captures the twisted complexities of family relationships and friendships, first love, and the quest for self-definition. Guided by short introductions to Baltic mythology, readers will find themselves in an urban landscape steeped in pagan and post-Soviet history.
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FictionApril 2024Moons of Instanbul
by Sophie Goldberg
Ventura, a beautiful young Turkish woman, travels to Mexico because her family has arranged her marriage to a fellow Sephardic immigrant. With a trunk full of hopes and traditions, she bravely faces the unknown, as she embarks on a surprising journey to start a new life, far from her homeland. The arrival, the nostalgia, the heart-wrenching uprooting and the adoption of a new homeland will mark her adventure as a migrant, until the long-awaited return to Turkey. Ventura will live each event with intensity and will season her days with the aromas, flavors, rhythms, colors and proverbs from the Far East. Amid recipes and customs inherited from her ancient culture, she will find the best antidote to homesickness, even if her memory cannot forget the Moons of Istanbul.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2023Celta and the Fallen Moon
by Victoria Iver (Author), Victoria Iver (Illustrator)
Celta and two rats live in a house near the old lighthouse. Every evening, the girl curls up in a big chair and reads fairy tales to her pets. But today the book had to be put aside - the Moon fell in her backyard! The unexpected guest is convinced that her business is useless and nobody needs it. So Celta sets out with Moon on a journey to prove that she is wrong. This kind and heartwarming story will give young readers faith in themselves and teach them that everyone in this world has value. From 3 to 8 years, 1853 words Rightsholders n.miroshnyk@vivat.factor.ua
