New Releases by Todd Hasak

A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to civil rights to the climate change movementWe Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as, what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements as well as people such as Gandhi, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and Václav Havel, this book discusses the components of nonviolent resistance. It answers the question “Why nonviolence?” by showing how nonviolent movements have succeeded again and again in a variety of ways, in all sorts of places, and always in the face of overwhelming odds. The book includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.

The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago. And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin. The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. The leaders of the suffrage movement are heroes who were fearless in the face of ridicule, arrest, imprisonment, and even torture. Many of them devoted themselves to the cause knowing they wouldn't live to cast a ballot. The story of women's suffrage is epic, frustrating, and as complex as the women who fought for it. Illustrated with portraits, period cartoons, and other images, Roses and Radicals celebrates this captivating yet overlooked piece of American history and the women who made it happen.

Prague, 1939. Misha a 10 ans et adore les après-midis au magasin de jouets avec son père. Mais quand les troupes allemandes envahissent la ville, les lois antisémites se multiplient, et l’insouciance de Misha vacille. Avec sa famille, ils sont envoyés dans un ghetto puis déportés dans le camp de Terezin. C’est là que Misha se lie d’une amitié fraternelle avec quarante garçons. Erich, Jan, Koko, Felix, Pavel... et surtout Franta, leur éducateur et mentor. Dans les coups durs comme lors de leurs parties de football, ils sont les Nesharim, unis à la vie, à la mort ! Mais avec le danger constant des convois « vers l’Est », Misha peut-il garder espoir ? En collaboration avec l’auteur Todd Hasak-Lowy, Michael Gruenbaum partage son histoire bouleversante d’humanité et de fraternité. Son témoignage, ainsi que les nombreux documents et photographies originaux qui l’accompagnent, apportent une contribution essentielle à la littérature de l’Holocauste.

When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp, where his mother's will and ingenuity keep them from being transported to Auschwitz and certain death.

Eis que, num dia qualquer, o pai de Darren aparece do nada às seis da manhã com um Donut e uma revelação que vira o mundo do jovem de cabeça para baixo. Narrando suas reflexões e descobertas por meio de listas e mais listas, Darren captura com perfeição os motivos por que qualquer coisa relacionada a qualquer pessoa é: 1. Dolorosa; 2. Inevitável; 3. Ridiculamente complicada; 4. Provavelmente, e com um pouco de sorte, a coisa certa no fim das contas.

Through a series of lists, a narrator reveals how fifteen-year old Darren's world was rocked by his parents' divorce just as his brother, Nate, was leaving for college, and a year later when his father comes out as gay, then how he begins to deal with it all after a stolen weekend with Nate and his crush, Zoey.

Will Sam’s best friend turn out to be a bully? He’s about to find out in this “strong and refreshingly straightforward” (School Library Journal) MAX novel. Sam Lewis is going to get his butt kicked in exactly thirty-three minutes. He knows this because yesterday his former best friend Morgan Sturtz told him, to his face and with three witnesses nearby, “I am totally going to kick your butt tomorrow at recess.” All that’s standing between Sam and this unfortunate butt-kicking is the last few minutes of social studies and his lunch period. But how did Sam and Morgan end up here? How did this happen just a few months after TAMADE (The Absolutely Most Amazing Day Ever), when they became the greatest Alien Wars video game team in the history of great Alien Wars teams? And once the clock ticks down, will Morgan actually act on his threat? Told with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and achingly real emotional truth, 33 Minutes shows how even the best of friendships can change forever.

The emergence of Zionism in the late nineteenth-century and the evolution of Zionist society in Palestine were profoundly influenced by the Hebrew literature of the day. As Todd Hasak-Lowy cogently argues in this book, Hebrew authors wrote with the belief that accurately representing Jewish society—including its history—in their texts would both record the past and establish its future course. Hasak-Lowy traces the tensions between the extraliterary—the historical, social, and political—and the literary—the aesthetic, formal, and stylistic—in Hebrew fiction. Focusing on canonical Hebrew texts by S.Y. Abramovitz,Y. H. Brenner, S.Y. Agnon, and S. Yizhar, the author establishes how their works and the works of other Jewish authors served as the intellectual and political leadership to the not yet fully amalgamated nineteenth-century diaspora.

Disaffected and angry screenwriter Daniel Bloom finds that his revenge fantasy about a nameless assassin who is taking down evil corporate executives and politicians is becoming all too real.

A first collection of seven short fictional works follows a theme of personal crises interrupted by global issues and features such characters as a journalist who becomes a client of the diet company he investigates, a man who loses his wallet just before a nuclear battle between India and Pakistan, and a slacker who becomes a translator during a bitter family reunion. Original.