Peter Hartling, Author Holmes & Meier Publishers $27.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8419-1347-9
This elegant, lyrical and convincing biographical novel makes an imaginative leap into the mind of Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) while hewing to the facts of his life. The Schubert we meet here is a restless, self-castigating wanderer
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Peter Hartling, Author, Wendell Minor, Illustrator, Elizabeth D. Crawford, Illustrator HarperCollins $12.95 (163p) ISBN 978-0-688-07991-8
In the early days of peacetime following World War II, refugees like Thomas, 12, wander across Europe searching for food, families, connections of any kind. In Vienna, Thomas is sheltered by a one-legged man known as Crutchesa former German officer...
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Peter Hartling, Author, J. H. Auerbach, Translator, Ellen Weinstein, Illustrator Overlook Press $12.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-87951-401-3
In this German novel, ten-year-old Ben develops the first crush of his life on Anna, a shy girl from Poland. Hartling's gentle story takes them from their first meeting in school, through tentative flirting and teasing, to spending a lot of time...
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