To order Carrie Soto Is Back, High or All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days go to. With documentary evidence thin on the ground – Harnack destroyed her diaries – Donner questions what motivates someone to risk their life for the sake of their beliefs in a gripping story that reads like a political thriller.

Appalled by the rise of nazism, Mildred and her German husband embarked on a decade-long resistance campaign until their arrest and execution in 1943. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitlerĭonner’s American great-great-aunt, Mildred Harnack, moved to Germany in the late 1920s. An exhilarating, immersive and gripping ode to the cost of greatness, this is Taylor Jenkins Reids best book yet. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback. Focusing on the villages she passes through and the lives of their inhabitants against a broader socio-cultural, historical and political backdrop, Fatland is a sensitive and insightful chronicler of quotidian lives and a compelling narrator of her extraordinary journey. In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In High, she documents her travels through the 2,000km stretch of the Himalayas. High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and ChinaĮrika Fatland (translated by Kari Dickson )įatland, a Norwegian anthropologist, is the award-winning author of travelogues Sovietistan and The Border. Emotionally damaged by the death of her mother when she was a child, Carrie struggles to form personal relationships and this entertaining and enjoyable novel follows Carrie’s professional and personal journey towards self-fulfilment. With her father as coach, She comes out of retirement to defend her status as the world’s greatest tennis player.

Carrie Soto is a retired tennis champion whose grand slam record is about to be broken.

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