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Bookshop Christy Award winner Austin (
If I Were You) shines in this excellent tale of three women who struggle to survive WWII in the Netherlands. Lena de Vries and her two young daughters are keeping the family farm going while her husband and son are away at war. In addition to protecting her family, she also cares for the refugees she s hiding from the Nazis. Lena s oldest daughter, Ans, moved to Leiden shortly before the war, eager to leave behind her rural life and her faith. After the fighting begins, she joins the Resistance, putting her on the opposing side of her boyfriend, Erikâa Dutch police officer now working for the Nazisâand leading her to discover she needs her faith more than ever. Miriam Jacobs is a Jewish woman on the run from the Nazis. As a young wife and mother, she leaves everyone she knows behind in hopes of keeping her baby alive. As the three women work to evade and break the Nazi grip on the Netherlands, Austin skillfully portrays the dan
Credit: Newsday via Getty Images This Is Our Dream : A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire Hope Jan 28, 2021
Poetry can help us become more human. We saw it on display as 22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman read her stirring poem The Hill We Climb last week. It felt joyous and truthful, necessary and hopeful, and there was power in both her and her words.
Gorman s Inauguration Day poem no doubt helped inspire submissions to Morning Edition s most recent poetry callout. Days before she read those lines, Kwame Alexander, NPR s poet in residence, asked for poetry that starts with the words I dream a world. That line comes from a poem by Langston Hughes and it inspired Martin Luther King Jr. s I Have A Dream speech.
And the earth is cared for by all.
Where nations boundaries blur
reaching across to embrace in oneness.
Where people are as free
as the poet s meter.
And inclusion is real
Where I can be black and woman, and be safe
I dream a world where white folks see
All non-white folks in the land of the free
As true heirs to the founders liberty
From oppression and powerful tyranny;
I dream the world, king dreamed for me
That the paved gold that America promises prospers
Where the playing field is level, the same,
for anyone willing and able.
where we anchor to hope and all it brings
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