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"On a warm night in September, Yvonne Rudellat's house is bombed. Almost everything she owns is destroyed. Yvonne has no one left. She and her husband have long been estranged; her daughter, Jackie, is married and occupied with war work. Yvonne is no useto anyone--older, diminutive, always overlooked. As she prepares to take her own life, fate offers her a new path. Almost no one believes she can do it. She is a woman, unaccustomed to this form of...
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"For fans of sweeping historical literature in the vein of Philipp Meyer's The Son or Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, an extraordinary US literary debut set in Paris and colonial New Orleans and based on a true story, about three of the 88 young women--among theman orphan, a madwoman, and an abortionist--who were deported to the Louisiana Territory as brides"--
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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023.
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398 pages ; 23 cm
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"Esta es la apasionante historia de una mujer que dedico su vida a devolver la identidad a ciento ocho nin judios, desaparecidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una joven decidida a mostrar la verdad. Lyon, 1992. Una estudiante tiene que enfrentarse a un pais y a una universidad que quieren pasar pagina y dejar atras el pasado, pero el hallazgo de una vieja caja con las fichas de unos ninos judios, en paradero desconocido desde el verano de 1942,...
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Narrativa/Salamandra
Pub. Date
2023.
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782 pages : map ; 23 cm
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"El pacto del agua sigue a una familia que sufre una afliccion peculiar: en cada generacion, al menos una persona muere ahogada, y en Kerala el agua esta en todas partes. A principios del siglo XX, una nina de doce anos es enviada en barco para contraer matrimonio con un hombre de cuarenta al que no conoce. A partir de entonces, la joven y futura matriarca, conocida como Big Ammachi, sera testigo de cambios impensables: una historia llena de alegrias,...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"The Last Kingdom is one of the most successful historical fiction series of our time, telling the epic story of the birth of England and introducing one of the greatest fictional heroes: the iconic Uhtred of Bebbanburg -- Saxon-born, Norse-raised warrior and rebel. The final Last Kingdom book was published in 2002, but for Bernard Cornwell, the story felt unfinished. There were some Uhtred tales he still wanted to tell, and over the course of writing,...
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Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2024
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1 online resource(1 sound file (7hr.,32min.,50sec.))
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In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school lessons, her writing instructor, Tetsuko, encourages Ichi...
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Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2024
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1 online resource(1 sound file (17hr.,17min.,12sec.))
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She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she’s not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell’s Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic...
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