Books with title My Father's Secret

Dan Smith has thrilled fans everywhere with his novel Big Game, now a feature film starring Samuel L. Jackson. In My Brother's Secret, set in 1941 Germany, 13-year-old Karl is proud to join the Hitler Youth. But Karl's faith in the Fuhrer is shaken after his father is killed in the war and his brother joins a secret group fighting the conformity and control of the Nazis.

A fascinating new perspective on World War II; a fictitious, personalized take on the real-life rebel German youth group, the Edelweiss Pirates.Karl Friedman is only twelve, but like all boys his age in Germany, he's already playing war games, training to join the Hitler Youth. Stefan, Karl's nonconformist older brother, wants nothing to do with it. Then their father is killed, and what had been a game suddenly becomes deadly serious. Karl's faith in the Fuhrer is shaken: Is Hitler a national hero--or a villain? What is the meaning of the flower symbol stitched inside Stefan's jacket, and what is the mission of the shadow group he belongs to? Karl soon finds out as he joins his brother in a dangerous rebellion against the burgeoning threat of Nazism.

A fascinating new perspective on World War II; a fictitious, personalized take on the real-life rebel German youth group, the Edelweiss Pirates.Karl Friedman is only twelve, but like all boys his age in Germany, he's already playing war games, training to join the Hitler Youth. Stefan, Karl's nonconformist older brother, wants nothing to do with it. Then their father is killed, and what had been a game suddenly becomes deadly serious. Karl's faith in the Fuhrer is shaken: Is Hitler a national hero--or a villain? What is the meaning of the flower symbol stitched inside Stefan's jacket, and what is the mission of the shadow group he belongs to? Karl soon finds out as he joins his brother in a dangerous rebellion against the burgeoning threat of Nazism.

Audric, age sixteen, is an orphaned tailor's apprentice. When his city, Bethenbrook, comes under Serpent attack, he and his best friend are mistaken for Serpents and thrown in prison. In an attempt to escape, they come across plans for complete kingdom take over. Before they can warn the king, they're captured again and sold as slaves. Will Audric rise above all odds to save his kingdom? Or will fear and betrayal claim victory once and for all?

WHAT IF YOUR FATHER ISN'T WHO YOU THOUGHT HE WAS?"I turn up the volume as a woman at a news desk announces, ‘This just in…the alleged DB25 monster has been arrested.' Good. The camera switches from the anchor to a mug shot…and it is my face—or at least my face as it will look thirty years from now…A new image replaces the full-screen mug shot as I see two cops hustling my handcuffed father into the back of a police car." Kevin has to face the worst imaginable possibility: that his father may be the man responsible for a series of vicious killings. How much does he really know about his father? "A fast-paced and sometimes disturbing look at families and violent crime and its many victims, seen and unseen." - Kirkus Reviews

Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a profound, captivating, and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who team up to save them. Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are unlikely heroines. They are simple people who mind their own business and don’t stand out from the crowd … until 1939, when crisis strikes. The Nazis invade Poland and start to persecute the Jews. Providing shelter to Jews has become a death sentence, and yet Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny two-room house in Sokal, they cleverly hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen floorboards, and a defecting German soldier in the attic—each party completely unknown to the others. For everyone to survive, Franciszka will have to outsmart her neighbors and the German commander. Told simply and succinctly from four different perspectives—all under one roof—My Mother’s Secret is a testament to the kindness, courage, and generosity of ordinary people who choose to be extraordinary.

Germany, 1941. 12-year-old karl friedmann is looking forward to joining the hitler youth, like all boys his age. But when his father is killed, his rebellious older brother stefan shows him things that leave his faith in the fuhrer shaken. What does it mean to be a good german? what does it mean to wear the mysterious flower sewn inside his brother's jacket? who is the real enemy?

Great Bedtime Story for kids 'When I was young', John thought as he leafed through the old book that his father had read for him when he was little, 'this book used to help me to go to sleep every night, now it is my turn to read it to my daughter Amanda'.That night I opened the secret book to read a bedtime story. From the book : "Casper materialised sitting on the bottom step, he was ghostly and sad looking, a white filmy being who watched her clean the same spot time and again.'Witch. Why do you always clean the same bit of floor? Asked Casper.'Why do you eat the candles? Every night Nermal and I sit in the dark because you have eaten the candles!''They help me see in the dark.''See what? There's nobody here but us.''Anyway why don't you fly that broomstick instead of sweeping with it?” said Casper.'I get airsick!' she replied.'Oh. Anyway, there is another ghost, I saw him upstairs, and I am looking out for it.”'Why, what will you do if you find it?' at that moment a jet black Crow landed on the witches shoulder, it cawed loudly.'I don't know I am frightened of ghosts!' said Casper.The witch cackled, ' A ghost frightened of ghosts! Whatever, next.'Casper moaned softly."