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Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life.
In 1492 , during the Spanish Inquisition, Benvenida and her family are banished from Spain for being Jewish, and must flee the country or be killed. They journey by foot and by sea, eventually settling in Istanbul.
Over four centuries...
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Two Kinds of Color is story of a mother's love and sacrifice for her four racially divided children. Two of them are black, two are white. Their mother, Freddie Walker, has not only movie star beauty, sensuality, and sexuality, she has the kind of intelligence which white-collar Wall Street can only dream of. Sidetracked from realizing her dream of gaining a fortune playing with stocks and bonds, she moves to the notorious South Side of Chicago, where...
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"This Man Called Bunk" follows a man who went to work in Baltimore City in 1926 and never returned, leaving his wife and four young children with no explanation. His wife raised the children with the help of her brother and sister and never remarried. Years later, his granddaughter Jenny Lynn became curious about what caused her grandfather to leave. There were many theories in the family about his reason for leaving. Some dismissed his disappearance...
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Sometimes Abby thinks the most important event in her life happened before she was even born Abby's not dying; in fact she's perfectly healthy. If she were dead, maybe her father would grieve for her the way he's still grieving for Johnny, who would have been Abby's older brother if he hadn't died when he was only two. Probably not though. The only time her dad even notices her is when he's pushing her into an Ivy League college. And now that Abby's...
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'If you want a feel good, laugh out loud, romantic story which will tug at your heartstrings, then look no further!! Fab, fab, fab!!' Stardust Book Reviews
She's taking her life back , one step at a time…
Grace thought she had it all. Living in the beautiful village of Little Ollington, along with head teacher husband Mark and gorgeous son, Archie, she devoted herself to being the perfect mum and the perfect wife, her little family giving her...
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When Sathapathi entered into his one hundredth year hale and healthy without any problems that the age old people do have and can do all his works actively, he felt worried rather than feeling happy why his nature was not like all the other old people. The other worry he has was he might remain alive like that and never will die. He started writing his life as a book from the birthday of his one hundredth year till the day of his death on one hundred...
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Jessie's father has always been a missing piece of her life-but if she were to find him, how would he feel about her? Jessie Wells thinks four is a good number. Things with four sides are sturdy and strong. A box, a chair, a room with four walls. But ever since the day Jessie's dad left, Jessie, her mother, and Aunt Zis have been a triangle-three-sided, though solidly linked. Jessie has heard the story: Her beautiful young mother had married a...
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Hast du die Freude und die Liebe in deinem Leben schon gefunden? L(i)ebst du dein Leben? Ich lade dich ein, den weiteren, turbulenten Weg durch mein Leben mit mir zu gehen. Erneut lege ich dir mein Herz auf ein Silbertablett. Sei gewarnt, du wirst wahrscheinlich gemeinsam mit mir in einer neuen Bewusstheit »Ankommen – in deinem L(i)eben«. Vielleicht wünschst du dir für dich mehr Eigenverantwortung und traust dich nicht. Leicht und locker erfährst...
9) La otra hija
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«La otra hija» es una larga carta que Annie Ernaux le escribe a Ginette, la hermana muerta a la que nunca conoció, pero cuya sombra siempre la acompaña desde aquel lejano domingo de agosto de 1950 en el que descubrió accidentalmente su existencia.
«Pero tú no eres mi hermana, nunca lo fuiste. No hemos jugado, comido, dormido juntas. Nunca te toqué, nunca te besé. No sé de qué color tienes los ojos. Nunca te he visto. No tienes cuerpo ni...
10) Hijo único
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Zack Taylor, de siete años de edad, está escondido en el armario de su salón de clases junto a su maestro y sus compañeros de clase durante un tiroteo. Zach sobrevive, pero Andy, su hermano mayor, muere.
El responsable es el hijo de Charlie, que ha sido el guardia de seguridad de la escuela durante años y es muy apreciado por todos. Cuando Charlie y su esposa hacen una llamada telefónica para dar el pésame a la familia de Zach, su mamá cambia...
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A Little Boy's Blues is the story of the mercurial child named Little Boy. A child who longs to meet his father and mourns the loss of his closest friend. Little Boy discovers a guitar in the trash and learns to play it and through playing it for the people he meets. He finds a way out of his depression.
12) Just Morgan
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"The right thing never just happens; you have to make it happen." Morgan knows her parents left her in boarding school so they could travel the world, which is why hardly anything changes when they're killed in an accident during her freshman year at Fairfield. But every orphan needs a guardian, and Morgan's is her uncle Tom, a famous and somewhat eccentric author. Tom's New York City apartment has plenty of space for Morgan, and her room is the nicest...
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Two single mothers, Brenda and Maureen established friendships when shopping in the city one day. As normal London families, they shared ideas and helped each other out. They both had daughters who automatically became friends too. Events enfold when Tyler the nephew of Maureen began to blackmail his cousin Emilia, Maureen's daughter leading her to sexually groom Maria for Tyler, Brenda's daughter.
Maureen suffered depression and was sectioned upon...
14) The Will
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Arylk, Judich Pam and Shirley were all childhood friends. They had been through a lot together, and as life takes them on a journey of ups and downs it takes them a while to get it right. Atylk especially reflects quite often on the naivety and innocence of youth, the folly of adulthood and the mercy and awesome goodness of her Father. A Father that she thought was never there for her. As her journey through life shows her what it takes to become...
15) The Pawn
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In 1879, Josefina Taylor's ambitions are shattered by the Elders of their strict society. To escape she breaks their rules, then faces a life of desperation and fear. The pawn in a plot to destroy everything she values, she fights for her dream.
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Cuando Reece, un niño de siete años, llega a casa de Cathy en régimen de acogida, ya ha pasado por otras cuatro familias. Ha sido expulsado de varios colegios por su comportamiento agresivo y alborotador.
Cathy quiere encontrar los motivos del alarmante comportamiento del niño, pero él no cuenta nada porque su madre le hizo jurar que guardaría el secreto. Cuando el trabajador social que lleva el caso de Reece recaba información para la vista...
17) Domestic Lilac
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Fulton Books Presents
"The Saga of Diversion Lily"
Featuring Domestic Lilac
The Saga of Diversion Lily featuring Domestic Lilac is a psychological suspense-thriller that will take you to the edge of your seat. Lilac was unwittingly pawned by her drug-addicted mother to her grandparents in California. Will her mother, Jacky, ever learn that her daughter was hypnotized by her grandmother to hide the fact that she was sexually assaulted...
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Captain Guy Halliday, Old Etonian, is a Cavalry Officer in the Royal Wessex Dragoon Guards, who sees action at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. Brought up in idyllic rural Somerset by formidable parents, Guy, like Shakespeare's Romeo, looks forward to a blissful life with Giselle, the lovely lady who is later to become his wife. However, different and unexpected turns force him to change tack. His life ultimately centres on his three children,...
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The team is back again. Chantal Bluspri is suffering from PTSD, her boyfriend is at his wit's end trying to help her. Her friends decide to take a vacation with Chantal to Banff, Alberta, but things take a turn for the worse when the vehicle breaks down in a storm in the middle of nowhere. They spot a hotel, which is not all it seems. All goes well until the nightmares begin. Can they escape?
20) The Memory Box
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Adam never had a good childhood; his father was an alcoholic and his mother was scared to stand up to her husband. Adam is put into care, but the abuse he suffered as a child has scarred him and he is unable to control his anger and behaviour - leading him to bounce between foster homes and engage in fights.When he's 21 he discovers that his father is dying and goes to visit him in the hospital. His father gives him a wooden box and tells him that...
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