6/9/2023 0 Comments Zig and wikki in the cow![]() ![]() ![]() When we saw the question “Can cow poop help two friends patch up their friendship?” on the back of this book, we knew the second- and third-graders it’s aimed at would be lured in. Tess is torn between loyalty to her mentor and the truth - plus a pair of men vying for her love.īy Nadja Spiegelman and Trade Loeffler (Toon Books) When the survivors arrive in New York, hearings are held about the disaster and the papers report that the designer used her status to commandeer a lifeboat with only 12 people aboard (it could have held 40). Based on a true story, we meet aspiring seamstress Tess, hired as a personal maid by top designer Lady Lucille Duff Gordon - for a voyage on the Titanic. ![]() While the public is still stewing at the misappropriation of lifeboats from the doomed Costa Concordia, here comes a similar, Titanic-based tale in journalist Alcott’s novel. Other stories look at the history of the West Bank, senior citizens’ revenge and a neighborhood bully. In the title story, a Florida couple views an “ultra-Orthodox” couple with skepticism, until a childhood game about hiding Anne Frank sheds some truth on their own marriage. Here, Englander deals mostly with American and Israeli Jews. The author of the award-winning story collection “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges” and “The Ministry of Special Cases,” a novel about Argentina’s dirty war, returns with more short stories. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank ![]()
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