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1) Night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"[Elie Wiesel] taught at Boston University for nearly four decades, and with this book, Ariel Burger--devoted protégé, apprentice, and friend--takes us into the sacred space of Wiesel's classroom. There, Wiesel challenged his students to explore moral complexity and to resist the dangerous lure of absolutes. In bringing together never-before-recounted moments between Wiesel and his students, Witness serves as a moral education in and of itself--a...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan. Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar literary scene. Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"When Annette Gendler falls in love with a Jewish man in Germany in 1985, she knows their love has already happened--in her own family, no less. Her German great-aunt Resi was married to a Jew in Czechoslovakia before World War II--a marriage that created tremendous difficulties for the extended family once the Nazis took over. Annette and Harry's love, meanwhile, is the ultimate nightmare for Harry's family of Holocaust survivors. Weighed down by...
8) Open heart
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In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflected on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
11) Elie Wiesel
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
A biography of author and educator Elie Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his writings and work on behalf of victims and survivors of the Holocaust.