Divonne Book Club : An International Reading Salon

2018

February

Mischka's War

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

On a winter's day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods—a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities, which makes Mischka's decision to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS by going on a student exchange to Germany all the more remarkable. Even more >>

The New Sirian Revelations

by Patricia Cori

Galactic Prophecies for the Ascending Human Collective >>

Marie Antoinette - Daughter of an Empress

by Marguerite Vance

Also Read

"The History of Art; Out of one, many" from The Economist, February 24, 2018.

Les Loyautés

by Delphine de Vigan

Théo, enfant du divorce, entraîne son ami Mathis sur des terrains dangereux. Hélène, professeur de collège à l’enfance violentée, s’inquiète pour Théo : serait-il en danger dans sa famille ? >>

Turtles All the Way Down

by John Green

Grimms Fairy Tales: The Brothers Grimm

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Grimms Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm The Grimms' legacy contains legends, novellas, and folk stories, the vast majority of which were not intended as children's tales..... >>

Clip Viewed

We viewed a film clip from TED talks: Catherine Crump "The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you".