I just saw an article online that said that a Kindle owner will be able to check out library ebooks beginning later this year. This is super exciting and a huge game-changer for me! I have been researching ereaders for months now and finally settled on the Nook mainly because it supported epub files and thus I could check out library ebooks. This was a really hard decision for me because I have never been a huge fan of Barnes and Noble (I was a Border's girl until they closed our local store) and have always loved Amazon. Now I am going to have to go back to the store and play with them both to decide which one I like the best (I do really like the Nook's touch screen but I still love how easy Amazon is to use and their huge selection of free Kindle books is an a major attraction). An ereader is definitely in my future but now I have to re-decide which one!
Synopsis: Distant Signs is an intimate portrait of two families spanning three generations amidst turbulent political change, behind and beyond the Berlin Wall. In 1960s East Germany, Margret, a professor’s daughter from the city, meets and marries Hans, from a small village in Thuringia. The couple struggle to contend with their different backgrounds, and the emotional scars they bear from childhood in the aftermath of war. As East German history gradually unravels, with collision of the personal and political, their two families’ hidden truths are quietly revealed. An exquisitely written novel with strongly etched characters that stay with you long after the book is finished and an authentic portrayal of family life behind the iron curtain based on personal experience of the author who is East German and was 16 years old at the fall of the Berlin Wall. Why do families repeat destructive patterns of behaviour across generations? Should the personal take precedence over...
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