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L'épisode. 2. Renée. MOUTON BLANC, CHEZ GAGNON Two days, and we have experienced no more than a few hours' respite from ... and what it has provided has been harvested, sold, and given over to pay taxes on the very land that bore it.
After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women' s concentration camp, and managed to survive...she tells this story with style and power." ...
Emília and Luzia dos Santos, orphaned when they are children, grow up under the protection of their aunt in the hillside village of Taquaritinga, Brazil.
Sira Quiroga leaves Madrid for love only to be left pregnant and penniless by her lover.
After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women' s concentration camp, and managed to survive...she tells this story with style and power." ...
Winner of the Friends of American Writers Award for Fiction As seamstresses, the young sisters EmÍlia and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, mend, and conceal—useful skills in the lawless backcountry of Brazil, where ruthless land barons ...
Read this book and prepare to be transported' Kate Morton, author of The House at Riverton 'A wonderful novel with intrigue, love, mystery and tender, audacious and clean-cut characters' Mario Vargas Llosa 'A magnificent novel that ...
These are useful skills in the lawless backcountry of Brazil, where ruthless land barons called "colonels" feud with bands of outlaw cangaceiros, trapping innocent residents in the cross fire.
The heroic memoir of a young woman who survived a Nazi concentration camp, The Seamstress is the true story of Seren (Sara) Tuval Bernstein, born in the mountains of Romania...
She sighs as she starts to pleat her skirt. 'Old age ain't no place for sissies, Willa, ' I tell her. 'Bette Davis said that.' Willa looks into infinity, across...
Tilly Mosier has only ever had one dream...to not work in her family's store.