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OverDrive eBooks January 2019
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"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." -- Elie Wiesel
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27th
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The Time of the Uprooted
by Elie Wiesel
Tormented by feelings of loss and dispossession after spending his life fleeing first the Nazis and then the 1956 Russian invasion of Hungary, Gamaliel Friedman finally settles in New York, where he works as a ghostwriter and meets a fellow group of exiles, which includes a rabbi whose mystical beliefs finally offer him a chance to reconcile with the past.
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Those Who Save Us
by Jenna Blum
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life.
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Lilac Girls : a Novel
by Martha Hall Kelly
The lives of three women converge at the Ravensbrück concentration camp as one resolves to help from her post at the French consulate, one becomes a courier in the Polish resistance, and one takes a German government medical position.
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Displaced Persons
by Ghita Schwarz
Forging a family together after surviving a World War II concentration camp brutality, Pavel, Fela and Chaim relocate to America, where throughout subsequent decades they raise families while struggling to find peace and adjust to a culture that unexpectedly embraces their tragedies.
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We Were the Lucky Ones
by Georgia Hunter
A novel based on the true story of a Jewish-Polish family recounts how the Kurcs are scattered throughout the world by the horrors of World War II and fight hardships to survive, reach safety, and find each other.
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The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping
by Aharon Apelfeld
Follows the story of Erwin, a young Holocaust survivor, who travels from a refugee camp to a kibbutz in Haifa to begin a new life while still desperately clinging to his memories of the past.
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National Sugar Awareness Week: January 14-18, 2019
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Year of No Sugar : a Memoir
by Eve O Schaub
It's dinnertime. Do you know where your sugar is coming from? Most likely everywhere. Sure, it's in ice cream and cookies, but what scared Eve O. Schaub was the secret world of sugar—hidden in bacon, crackers, salad dressing, pasta sauce, chicken broth, and baby food. With her eyes opened by the work of obesity expert Dr. Robert Lustig and others, Eve challenged her husband and two school-age daughters to join her on a quest to quit sugar for an entire year.
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Salt, Sugar, Fat : How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by Michael Moss
A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative reporter traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar and fat have enabled its dominance throughout the past half century, drawing on confidential reports and inside sources to reveal deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes and other health challenges.
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The Case Against Sugar
by Gary Taubes
The best-selling author of Why We Get Fat outlines compelling arguments about the health dangers of sugar, identifying the powerful lobbies behind its overuse while citing its role in a range of challenges from obesity to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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I Quit Sugar : Your Complete 8-Week Detox Program and Cookbook
by Sarah Wilson
A week-by-week guide to reducing sugar intake for weight loss, improved energy and bolstered health draws on the author's experiences with hypoglycemia and autoimmune diseases while offering more than 100 simple recipes complemented by suggestions for overcoming cravings.
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