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Simon Worrall

A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's Paris

Star Crossed

For readers of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah who are looking for an immersive true account of Nazi-occupied Paris, Star-Crossed is an epic story of love and resistance during WW2 from the award-winning author of Pen America Literary Award Finalist and Goodreads Choice Award Nominee, 999. Part historical portrait of life during the Occupation, part valentine to The City of Light and the resilience of its people, this transportive love story follows the romance between a Catholic Resistance fighter and a Holocaust victim who meet at the famous Café Flore before war, prejudice, and disapproving families set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths. A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee “What a beautiful, heartbreaking story.” —Erica Robuck, National Bestselling Author of Sisters of Night and Fog Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz has become a bold act of defiance. So has forbidden love for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families’ vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Café de Flore, whose habitues includeSimone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter. For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis -- and more immediately, their parents’ threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the maleficent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths. Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star-Crossed offers us precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives French people bravely led under the Hitler regime. This breathtaking true story of beauty, art, liberation, and the transformative power of love resonates with an intimate story of undying devotion, seen through the prism of history.

A True WWII Romeo and Juliet Love Story in Hitler's Paris

In an unforgettable portrait of a brilliant con artist, acclaimed journalist Worrall takes readers into the haunting mind of Mark Hofmann, one of the most daring literary forgers and most remorseless murderers of the late 20th century.

A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery

The Poet and the Murderer

This is the true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby's in 1997. The author's detective work led him across America, to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world's greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double-murder. Mark Hofmann is no ordinary murderer. Until he was incarcerated he was the world's greatest literary forger: a man who combined meticulous historical research with craftsmanship and forensic science. In 1997, one of his most accomplished forgeries, a poem by the much-loved 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson, turned up at a Sotheby's and was sold for $21,000 to the library in Dickinson's home town, Amherst.

A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery

Laura Batmanian

Justin Ridge

Biochemistry for Health Professionals is a concise introductory text integrating biochemistry with physiology and cell biology and is aimed specifically at introductory health science students. It assumes no prior knowledge and covers some molecular biology and chemistry basics. The text is accompanied by a wealth of resources for both students and instructors via the evolve platform.

Biochemistry for Health Professionals

When critically acclaimed writer, Simon Worrall, travels to Patagonia on assignment for National Geographic Magazine, he encounters one of the planet's last wild places: a vast, windblown landscape peopled by colorful characters - a Catholic priest on his way to The South Pole; a woman living alone in The Mountains of The Wind; gauchos, misfits and eccentrics. As the wind chases him south towards Tierra del Fuego, he also lays bare his own story of desire and lost love, and one man's search for his place in the world. On the way, he visits some of the places that inspired Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. Applying Darwin's ideas to his own life, Worrall explores his own origins and his evolution as a man and a father, with an honesty that is deeply moving. The result is not just another exotic, travelogue. Instead, Worrall delivers a powerful story of love and adventure at the ends of the earth that will take its place alongside such classics as Bruce Chatwin's "In Patagonia" and "The Snow Leopard" by Peter Matthiessen.

A Journey of the Heart Through Patagonia

The River of Desire

The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double-murder.

The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery (Text Only)

Comment devient-on un faussaire ? L'enfance de Mark Hofmann a été rythmée par les textes mormons. C'est adolescent, alors qu'il a accès à des livres critiques sur son Église, que sa foi se fissure. Se sentant trompé, il devient usurpateur. Il commence à forger de faux documents, d'abord pour moquer les hauts dirigeants mormons, puis enhardi par son succès, forge de faux poèmes d'Emily Dickinson. Mais pris au piège de sa propre folie, il finit par commettre l'irréparable. Simon Worrall revient sur cette trajectoire effroyable et nous montre à quel point la vérité est parfois construite de toute pièce.

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