Words on Fire reveals why people were willing to go to such great lengths for the preservation of words on paper.

Lithuanians died trying to smuggle books into the country that would keep their history, the truth, alive.

It’s about the Russian ban of Lithuanian literature in the late 1800s in an attempt to erase all religion, culture, and language but their own. We just finished reading Jennifer Nielsen’s book, Words On Fire.

God made His abhorrence of lying plain: hypocrisy and dissimulation are not to be tolerated. (Aren’t we all guilty of leaving out certain details to make ourselves look better?!)Īnanias and Sapphira were punished with immediate death for their collaboration in a “white lie” that was made to elevate their appearance to the rest of the church. (Mar.The suppression of truth to advance one’s own agenda is nothing new. Agent: Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary. Protagonists read as white an author’s note separates fact from fiction. It all makes for an engrossing portrait of an infamous maiden journey. a floating castle”) and details its social hierarchy, seeding anticipation as the winning young heroine learns more about the ship’s inner workings, notices warnings about icebergs and the ship’s wake, and looks into two con artists targeting her newfound friends. Nielsen ( Lines of Courage) attentively sketches the Titanic’s allure (“as powerful as the Titans of mythology, and as elegant as. Though the factory work that awaits Hazel in New York promises to help her support her widowed mother and siblings, the quick-witted tween dreams of life as a journalist, and her inquisitive nature quickly finds her embroiled in mysteries aboard the ship. Aboard the ship, porter Charlie Blight finds her a place to sleep, and Sylvia Thorngood, a first-class passenger Hazel’s age, and her governess, invite Hazel into a world of finery and opulence. Having left her rural life behind and finding that she lacks sufficient means to pay her fare after arriving in Southampton, Hazel Rothbury sneaks aboard the Titanic in a steam trunk.

A British 12-year-old stowed away aboard the Titanic becomes swept up into intrigue in this increasingly tense historical novel set on the ill-fated 1912 voyage.

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