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A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement into the night. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god which burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her...
Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction, poetry,...
The inspiring true story of an indomitable librarian's journey from Nazi Germany to Seattle to Vietnam--all for the love of books. Growing up under Fascist censorship in Nazi Germany, Ruth Rappaport absorbed a forbidden community of ideas in...
"A memoir by Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz"--Provided by publisher.
"I’m still crying after finishing this so I decided a review was a must. If you’ve been hurt this is such a cathartic and heart wrenching and beautiful book. This is why I read. Books like this. This gem of a story of a simple and lovely man who st..."
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