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RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf. I was my family's ears. Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable - together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times. This gripping memoir, told in a vivid "oral history" format, is a testament to the power of sisterhood and love, and now more than ever a reminder of how important it is to honor the past, and keep telling our own stories.

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control-from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed "beguiling" and "fascinating," Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into forty-eight essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P. T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), others teach the value of confidence ("Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness"), and many recommend absolute self-preservation ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father is wealthy enough to provide for his family but unconventional enough to spare Ling Fan from the debilitating foot-binding required of most well-off girls. But Ling Fan's life is upended when her brother dies of influenza and their father is imprisoned under false accusations. Hoping to earn the money that will secure her father's release, Ling Fan disguises herself as a boy and takes her brother's contract to work for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in America. Life on "the Gold Mountain" is grueling and dangerous. To build the railroad that will connect the west coast to the east, Ling Fan and other Chinese laborers lay track and blast tunnels through the treacherous peaks of the Sierra Nevada, facing cave-ins, avalanches, and blizzards-along with hostility from white Americans. When someone threatens to expose Ling Fan's secret, she must take an even greater risk to save what's left of her family ... and to escape the Gold Mountain alive.

Volume eight of a nine-volume encyclopedia that presents profiles of 193 countries of the world, arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Each entry is divided into thirty-five standardized sections on topics like agriculture, education, and climate.

Volume nine of a nine-volume encyclopedia that presents profiles of 193 countries of the world, arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Each entry is divided into thirty-five standardized sections on topics like agriculture, education, and climate.

Volume six of a nine-volume encyclopedia that presents profiles of 193 countries of the world, arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Each entry is divided into thirty-five standardized sections on topics like agriculture, education, and climate.

Volume seven of a nine-volume encyclopedia that presents profiles of 193 countries of the world, arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Each entry is divided into thirty-five standardized sections on topics like agriculture, education, and climate.

Volume four of a nine-volume encyclopedia that presents profiles of 193 countries of the world, arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Each entry is divided into thirty-five standardized sections on topics like agriculture, education, and climate.

Volume five of a nine-volume encyclopedia that presents profiles of 193 countries of the world, arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Each entry is divided into thirty-five standardized sections on topics like agriculture, education, and climate.

Volume two of a nine-volume encyclopedia that presents profiles of 193 countries of the world, arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Each entry is divided into thirty-five standardized sections on topics like agriculture, education, and climate.