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Queen: The Story of an American Family is a 1993 partly factual historical novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. It brought back to the consciousness of many white Americans the plight of the children of the plantation : the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who were legally the property of their fathers.
A nation called Moronica also appeared in 2010's Bikini Jones and the Temple of Eros. Morvania: An Eastern European country in Jem, ruled by Queen (formerly Princess) Adriana Slododac. Morvania (2): the Eastern European setting of Andre Norton's first published novel, Ruritanian romance The Prince Commands (1934).
Come and See [a] is a 1985 Soviet anti-war film directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova. [4] Its screenplay, written by Klimov and Ales Adamovich, is based on the 1971 novel Khatyn [5] and the 1977 collection of survivor testimonies I Am from the Fiery Village [6] (Я из огненной деревни, Ya iz ognennoy derevni), [7] of which Adamovich was a ...
"The word Belarusian is spoken out only three times in the movie", the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belorussii wrote. Veterans of the Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus criticised the film for inaccuracies. [28] [29] Some Belorussian reviews, as in Poland, criticised the film for ignoring the Bielski partisans' crimes against the local ...
The family lived at Yanow, a city of Imperial Russia, (later in western Belarus) near the Polish border. When Adler was thirteen, her parents sent her with a cousin to the United States to avoid the gathering wave of pogroms. Halfway through the journey, her cousin decided to turn back home, leaving Adler on her own. [5]
"Two Weeks with the Queen (Book Review)(Children's Review)", The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 44, University of Illinois Press: 192, 1 April 1991, ISSN 0008-9036 "Two Weeks with the Queen (Book Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)", School Librarian, 42, The School Library Association: 161, 1 November 1994, ISSN 0036-6595
America is a young adult novel written by E. R. Frank.It tells the story of America, a biracial boy.. The author of the book, E.R. Frank, is herself a social worker.In an author's note at the end of the book, she says she has worked with many Americas over the years.
John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a "hilarious, blazingly paced teen comedy." [ 43 ] Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times , Richard Roeper gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it a "refreshingly original take on the raunchy coming-of-age comedy" and praising Feldstein and Dever's chemistry. [ 44 ]