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Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrant...
In a novel that “brings authentic history to light,”* a young female attorney from New York City attempts the impossible in 1946: attaining justice for a black man in the ...
When first published in 1899, `The Awakening` shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian...
In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. An...
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of ...
Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who ...
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
Малала Юсуфзай, Кристина Лэмб
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(638)
I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out...
Julie Otuka's long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women bro...
Two sisters. One must be brave. One should be afraid.
Bravery, courage, fear and love in a time of war.
Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have al...
On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, s...
From the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, an astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American ...
Northern Iceland, 1829. A woman condemned to death for murdering her lover. A family forced to take her in. A priest tasked with absolving her. But all is not as it seems,...
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and bloo...
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.
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(3)What goes on behind closed doors, especially when those doors are of the gilded variety, has fascinated novelists and journalists for centuries. The private lives of the r...
He didn't look like much. With his smallish stature, knobby knees, and slightly crooked forelegs, he looked more like a cow pony than a thoroughbred. But looks aren't ever...
From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striki...
«Маус» Арта Шпигельмана - единственный графический роман, получивший престижную Пулитцеровскую премию. Автору удалось, казалось бы, невозможное - рассказать историю Холоко...
Книгу известного американского писателя Дж.Лондона (1876-1916) составляют повести и рассказы северного цикла. Рассказы об Аляске завоевали признание их автору не только ге...
Роман известного американского писателя Джека Лондона (1876-1916) "Лунная долина" - это история молодого рабочего, побежденного "железной пятой" промышленного города-спрут...