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121) Zhandarmě: vep
Author
Publisher
Vernatun
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Armenian
Description
Seen by those around him as a virtually senile nonagenarian, Emmet Conn is haunted by vivid memories of a past he and others deliberately worked to forget, a situation that compels him to seek out the love of his life to beg her forgiveness.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"England, 1870: His health failing, his most important work all but done, Charles Dickens is readying himself for the final bed. But there is still one more story that he must tell. As a young journalist just getting his start, Dickens encountered a story that would affect him for the rest of his life. As his "Sketches by Boz" column is just beginning to find acclaim, young Dickens encounters the wealthy and powerful Charles Wingate. While researching...
124) Yi'aijilie =: Gilead
Author
Series
Yue shi jie volume 42
Publisher
Tian pei wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2006
Language
中文
Author
Publisher
Heyne
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Deutsch
Description
A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds.
Publisher
Small Batch Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A series of autobiographical essays written by a group of men from working-class Jewish families who grew up during the 1940s and 1950s in the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester and Roxbury, which ranged from Blue Hill Avenue to Grove Hall and Franklin Park.
129) Cidade de ladrões
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Portuguese
Description
Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.
Author
Publisher
Rocco
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Portuguese
Description
An evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding, isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.
133) El abanico de seda
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
In nineteenth century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, or "old same," in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The two women exchange messages written on silk fans and handkerchieves using nu shu, a unique language that women created in order to communicate in secret, sharing their experiences, but when a misunderstanding arises, their friendship threatens to tear apart....
134) Claire's last secret
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"1873, Florence. Claire Clairmont, the last survivor of the 'haunted summer of 1816' Byron/Shelley circle, is living out her final years in genteel poverty, but the appearance of British tourist, William Michael Rossetti, brings hope that she may be able to sell some of her memorabilia to earn enough cash to support her and her niece/companion, Paula. But Rossetti's presence in Florence heralds a cycle of events that links the summer of 1816--when...
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