Karin de Haas Libri

Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia. But what choice did she have? And where did the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was sent to Auschwitz when still a child? In a Siberian prison camp, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she makes an impression on a woman doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing. Cilka begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions. Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love. From child to woman, from woman to healer, Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit -- and the will we have to survive.

Evil and hope clash and burn in the epic and shocking conclusion to the Shadow of the Fox trilogy. 'One of my all-time favourite fantasy novels!' Ellen Oh, author of the Prophecy and Spirit Hunters series, on Shadow of the Fox

Ci fu un tempo in cui i draghi furono cacciati fino quasi all'estinzione dai cavalieri dell'Ordine di San Giorgio. Da allora, nascosti sotto sembianze umane, i draghi di Talon sopravvissuti al massacro si sono moltiplicati e hanno acquisito maggiore forza e astuzia nel corso dei secoli: non manca molto a quando saranno pronti a diventare i padroni del mondo, senza che gli esseri umani nemmeno se lo immaginino. Ember e Dante Hill sono gli unici esemplari di draghi fratello e sorella, addestrati per infiltrarsi nella società degli uomini. Ember non vede l'ora di vivere come una teenager qualunque e godersi quell'unica estate di libertà che le sarà concessa, prima di ricoprire il ruolo a lei destinato dentro il regno di Talon. Ma l'Ordine è sulle loro tracce per terminare quanto non era stato fatto nel passato: annientarli tutti. Il cacciatore di draghi Garret Xavier Sebastian, però, non può uccidere, a meno che non sia sicuro di aver trovato la propria preda. E niente è certo quando si tratta di Ember Hill.

In 1936, the Nazis are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis' take control. There is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss - Hitler's annexation of Austria - as, across Europe, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. Tante Truus, as she is known, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," in a race against time to bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and Žofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad