![]() ![]() Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked. Her desperation leads her to Ettie, the daughter of a rabbi whose years spent eavesdropping on her father enables her to create a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Hanni’s daughter, Lea. “ hymn to the power of resistance, perseverance, and enduring love in dark times…gravely beautiful…Hoffman the storyteller continues to dazzle.” - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWĪt the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. On the brink of World War II, with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother’s act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() While running Zappa s fan club and managing the GTOs, an all-girl rock act supported and produced by Frank, Pauline learned to navigate the highs and lows of life behind the scenes with a rock n roll icon, gaining an unparalleled insight into Zappa s life and work in the process.Ī vivid depiction of the late sixties music industry and the sometimes stark realities behind Hollywood s perceived glamour, this memoir is the captivating story of a young English girl thrust into the mad world of a musical legend. For three years, Pauline served as Zappas PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention, to a log cabin in the Hollywood Hills, where. Living at a log cabin in the Hollywood Hills with Frank, his family and members of his eccentric entourage, Pauline spent her days and nights in the company of a succession of famous names.ĭrinking sessions with Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, visits from Eric Clapton and Captain Beefheart, and the fevered rehearsals of Zappa s band the Mothers of Invention were nothing out of the ordinary in a house routinely populated by freaks, drop-outs, drug casualties and dreamers. In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist.The assignment would change her life forever. ![]() ![]() Summoned to Frank Zappa s London hotel room to transcribe the lyrics of his album, Absolutely Free, the young English secretary experienced an unlikely meeting of minds with the charismatic American rock star, who subsequently invited Pauline to work for him in Los Angeles. "In 1967, a chance encounter with a musical legend changed Pauline Butcher s life forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘ Alpha and Omega’ is the second of Briggs’ series to get the graphic treatment, after her New York Times Bestseller ‘Mercy Thompson’ series was adapted in 2009. ![]() ![]() ‘Cry Wolf: Volume One’ is the first graphic novel instalment of ‘ Alpha and Omega’, an adaptation of Patricia Briggs’s urban fantasy werewolf series of the same name. And it is Anna’s inner strength and calming presence that will prove invaluable as she and Charles go on the hunt in search of a rogue werewolf-a creature bound in magic so dark that it could threaten all the pack… Then Charles Cornick, the enforcer-and son-of the leader of the North American werewolves, came into her life.Ĭharles insists that not only is Anna his mate, but she is also a rare and valued Omega wolf. After three years at the bottom of the pack, she’s learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. Anna never knew werewolves existed, until the night she survived a violent attack…and became one herself. ![]() |