The blood brothers : a novel of Berlin gang life

Originally published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and mutual loyalty. Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner's story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive the harsh realities of gang life, and finding in one another the legitimacy denied them by society. A ripper of an outback tale for young adult and older readers. Set in Broome, Western Australia, engineer Martin Dexter boards a plane bound for the Sandy Desert only to be derailed by a 200 kilometer per hour cyclone that is on their tail. Starving and alone in the middle of the outback, Dexter's encounter with an Aboriginal man named Willy saves his life and sets the lives of both men on an intertwining path. Their destinies are now in each others' hands. Charles Beagley crafts a masterful tale, taking the reader on a courageous and emotional journey through the Sandy Desert and into the lives of two very different strangers