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Retells a Latvian legend about a young man who, with his friends, saves a beautiful princess from being forced to marry.

Explores the life of Kristaps Porzingis, basketball player for the New York Knicks.

Retells a Latvian legend about a young man who, with his friends, saves a beautiful princess from being forced to marry.

The author presents the story of his father, who, when he was five years old, witnessed the massacre of his mother and siblings by a Nazi death squad in 1941, and who was eventually discovered by a Nazi-led Latvian police brigade who took him in as their mascot and described his life-long struggle to reconnect with his Jewish roots.

Follows the ordeal of fourteen-year-old twins Astra and Hugo Petersons, as they and their family flee their native Latvia before the advancing Russian armies in late 1944 and find themselves homeless refugees in a war-torn Germany.

A princess is forced to marry a prickly hedgehog boy and is astounded when remorse over a thoughtless act of hers transforms him into a handsome young man.