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1) Bread Givers
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The acclaimed novel of Jewish immigrant life on New York City's Lower East Side from the literary phenomenon known as the "Cinderella of the Tenements."
It is Manhattan in the 1920s, and the Polish American Smolinsky family struggles to survive in their home on Hester Street. At ten years old, Sara, the youngest daughter, is keenly aware of the family's precarious financial situation. With food scarce, her unemployed and domineering father,...
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A clash between cultures has happened many times throughout history. Events from 1979 to this point leading the western and Muslim cultures into a crusade with no present way out. The reason for all this fighting for the last 37 years has no simple answer and history has a way of always repeating itself.
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For the first time in one volume, the most elegant and accessible translation of Dante's enduring masterpiece
Charles Singleton's English-language translation of The Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the finest renderings of Dante's masterpiece. Singleton's prose is both faithful and scholarly, and sensitive to the subtle nuances of meaning and richness of reference in Dante's epic poem. Here for the first time is the single-volume...
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2018
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#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 International Bestseller
This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.
"The Tattooist
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"The Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The tales delve into thought-provoking themes of existence, morality, and the nature of humanity, often featuring a mysterious figure who impacts the lives of the characters and prompts them to contemplate their beliefs and desires. The beginning of the story introduces readers to the setting of a secluded, medieval Austrian village, a place...
6) The guardian
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Forbidden doors volume 3
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Rebecca is stunned when her best friend, Julie, is almost killed by a hit-and-run driver. But the accident is only the beginning of Julie's trouble for someone, or something, has come to "lead her to enlightenment.".
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A mother dances on the edge of self-destruction when she paints her kitchen white for her son returning home from the military but, has her rent raised by her cruel landlord as a response. Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly...
9) Hunger
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A sequel to 'Wings', Peshah gets a job at a shirtwaist factory where one of the workers falls in love with her.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
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Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants, particularly Jewish immigrant women.
11) My Own People
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A young writer finds inspiration and purpose in the suffering of her brethren.-22.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
12) El diablo mudo
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El diablo mudo es un auto sacramental de Pedro Calderón de la Barca, género en el que llegó a alcanzar la plenitud, al combinar a la perfección con su talento natural, amante de la pintura y de las sutilezas y complejidades teológicas.
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A mother goes from poverty to wealth, expecting happiness but only finding a cruel Catch-22.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
14) Hungry Hearts
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Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each story depicting a different aspect of their trials and tribulations in poverty in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. The stories were adapted into a film of the same name.
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A woman being crushed by motherhood is offered a stay at a free vacation house but finds the strict humiliating living conditions worse than her life in poverty.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
16) Soap and Water
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A student is denied her diploma because of her unsightly appearance due to her grueling life going to school and supporting herself in grinding poverty, making her rebel against the divisions of class.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly...
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Der Narr in Christo Emanuel Quint ist ein Drama des deutschen Schriftstellers Gerhart Hauptmann. Das Stück erzählt die Geschichte des Protagonisten Emanuel Quint, der sich selbst für den wiedergeborenen Jesus Christus hält und eine radikale religiöse Mission verfolgt. Emanuel Quint ist ein einfacher Mann aus dem Volk, der plötzlich die Überzeugung hat, dass er auserwählt ist, um die Welt zu retten. Er verkündet seine göttliche Mission und...
18) Drunken Angel
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Alan Kaufman has been compared to Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Hubert Selby Jr., even Ernest Hemmingway-his life reads so much like a great movie that the world of cinema has just optioned his first memoir, Jew Boy, for a feature film. Drunken Angel, his new autobiographical work, drops like a sledgehammer. It is the most gripping, chilling and inspiring account ever written of a life-long battle with alcoholism and the struggle to write. Graphic in...
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El lector tiene frente a sí un libro que puede señalarse entre los más notables de la trayectoria narrativa de Unamuno, en donde nos ofrece sus mejores frutos en su ejercicio narrativo y una atenta reconsideración de la fe y el catolicismo. En todo caso, las convicciones que abrigó a lo largo de su vida sobre el arte de la novela alcanzan uno de sus mejores momentos.
20) Ben hur
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Ben-Hur, novela escrita por el estadounidense Lewis Wallace, que fue publicada por primera vez 12 de noviembre de 1880. Esta obra relata la historia de Jud Ben-Hur un prncipe judo ficticio quien a lo largo de su existencia experiment una serie de extraordinarios acontecimientos ocurridos durante la poca de Jesucristo, cuando en el Medio Oriente se gestaba el nacimiento de la nueva fe religiosa, que con el paso del tiempo se denomin el cristianismo.Desde...
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