Who would think that musical instruments can get bored, just like people? But that's exactly what happened to the First Violin in one old orchestra. Tired of playing the same music, she decided to leave her beautiful Opera House and look for some new tunes in the unknown, fascinating, and frightening world that lay beyond. But could she ever imagine that she'd have to play at a gypsies' wedding? Read about the adventures of the Violin that Wanted to See the World in the book lovingly designed and illustrated in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript.

The Violin That Wanted To See The World

Marina Sonkina

Teen & Young Adult

MW Books Publishing

The Old Man and His Intelligent Animals

Children's Books

Avivi, Yavin I.

Animals

Academia and Peace Thoughts and Struggles

Biographies & Memoirs

Yavin, Avivi I.

Historical

Unknown Soldier

Literature & Fiction

Payerle, George

Genre Fiction

<p>This engagingly written book charts the journey of an Israeli man Ehud who comes to the United States in mid 1950s to earn his PH.D in physics. An inquisitive young man, ready to embrace the New World, Ehud is searching for answers to difficult questions. His quest for justice meets many challenges as he witnesses the assassinations of President J.F.K. and his brother Robert. Having already fought in the Israeli War of Independence, he now opposes the war in Vietnam and travels as far as Saigon to understand its causes. An outsider's interpretation of the events of recent history provides fresh perspective relevant to us in our turbulent and controversial times.</p>

The Rape of a Country

IN THE VILLAGE OF MERRY LIMP, Aunt Zina runs a butcher shop. On Sinew Monday, only sinews are sold. On Bone Tuesday, the populace can buy bones; and so on for the rest of the week. Thus Marina Sonkina lays the groundwork for a surreal satire on Stalin's USSR. Seen through the eyes of the eleven-year-old Natasha, the story unfolds in a mad procession of events, incongruous characters, party meetings and slogans. We encounter railway workers, officials and party leaders all the way to characters like Beria and Stalin himself. Audaciously using grotesque as her method of description, Sonkina resurrects the fears, the cruelty and the absurdity of people's lives under Stalin.  As all good satire, "Comrade Stalin's Baby Tooth" puts a reflective mirror to the past, warning us about the future.   The book, illustrated with colour propaganda posters of the period, is presented in the manner of an official document from the KGB files. "What readers could forget their introduction to Merry Limp Cemetery, or a chess game at Lenin's tomb involving live pawns wearing crimson tutus? The wit, satire, imagination, and empathy of Comrade Stalin's Baby Tooth, not to mention all the playful narrative surprises and memorable imagery, convey the human capacity (in Faulkner's words) not only to endure but to prevail. To make poetry and comedy out of waste and horror is doubtless difficult, but Marina Sonkina admirably manages both." - Elise Partridge, author of Chameleon Hours

COMRADE STALIN'S BABY TOOTH

Comics & Graphic Novels

Sonkina, Marina

Graphic Novels

After ten years in the United States, Ehud returns to Israel to find the young country reveling in its recent military victory over Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the 1967 war. Still deeply influenced by his involvement in the US movements for Civil Rights and against the war in Vietnam,he finds that his old Israeli friends have been deeply influenced by two entirely different forces, first - the trauma caused by fear of the upcoming war, and then - the jubilation over the victory and the occupation of vast territories. But Ehud sees the control over millions of Palestinians as a threat to the future to his beloved homeland. Returning to the United States a year later, he is astonished to discover that many of the former "doves" on Vietnam have become "hawks" on the Middle East, while many Vietnam "hawks" have become "doves" on the Middle East. He establishes a partnership with a Palestinian physicist to develop plans for peace in the Middle East.

Doves And Hawks

History

Middle East

A Starfish laying in the grass? That's not where they live! Scott the little starfish is in trouble. A child has taken him off the beach and left him in the grass, far away from home. With the help of some unlikely friends, can Scott get back to the ocean before he dries out?

Scott the Starfish - An Unexpected Adventure!

Fraser, Jennifer

Rapture And Other Stories

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