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      • April 2020

        Mommy's father

        by Cristiana Gomes and Odilon Moraes

        “Grandpa, mommy told me her father had brown hair"   This is how a little girl starts an interesting conversation with her grandfather. They go to the beach together and she tells him some memories her mother shared with her: her dad's characteristics, what would make him happy (or angry), the things she learned from him. The grandfather listens to her and witnesses the day his granddaughter makes an important discovery regarding time and family love.

      • Frida : My long lost grandmother’s war

        by Nina F. Grünfeld

        The first time Frida Grünfeld was registered in a police record was spring 1931. She was Jewish, a prostitute, suspected of espionage – and she was pregnant. Frida was born in Leles, Slovakia in 1908, which was Austria-Hungary at the time. She lived a vagrant life the newly established Czehcoslovakia after WW1. In Bratislava she gave birth to a son, Berthold; but gave him away when he was only a week old. He later came to Norway as a refugee and became one of Norway’s most recognised psychiatrists. But what happened to Frida? In this book, the grandaughter Nina F. Grünfeld returns and searches for her grandmother. Through archives she finds interrogation files and court documents revealing clues and information, and she learns how the web is winding ever closer around Frida. The authorities were looking for people like her. Then the Nazis came to power. The story of Frida is a shocking tale of belonging, want and loss.

      • Children's & YA
        April 2020

        The Last Paper Crane

        by Kerry Drewery | Illustrated by Natsko Seki

        One thousand paper cranes to achieve your heart’s desire. 1945, Hiroshima: Ichiro is a teenage boy relaxing at home with his friend Hiro. Moments later there is a blinding flash as the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped. With great bravery the two boys find Hiro’s fiveyear- old sister Keiko in the devastated and blasted landscape. When Hiro succumbs to his wounds, Ichiro is the only one who can take care of Keiko. But in the chaos Ichiro loses her when he sets off to find help. Seventy years later, the loss of Keiko and his broken promise to his dying friend are haunting the old man’s fading years. Mizuki, his grandaughter, is determined to help him. As the Japanese legend goes, if you have the patience to fold a thousand paper cranes, you will find your heart’s desire; and it turns out her grandfather has only one more origami crane to fold . . . Narrated in a compelling mix of prose, free verse and haiku poems, this is a haunting and powerful novel of courage and survival, with full-page illustrations by Natsko Seki.

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