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2019.
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English
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Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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Español
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"El año es 1846. Después de la controvertida anexión de Tejas, el ejército de los Estados Unidos marcha hacia el sur para provocar la guerra con México por la disputada frontera del río Grande. Ximena Salomé es una curandera mexicana que sueña con formar un hogar con el hombre que ama. Pero cuando los Rangers de Tejas asaltan su rancho y matan a su esposo, sus sueños se reducen a cenizas. Prometiendo honrar la memoria de su esposo...
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English
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Thirteenth-century Bohemia is a dangerous place for a girl, especially one as odd as Mouse, born with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect. Some call her a witch. Others call her an angel. Even Mouse doesn't know who -- or what -- she is. But she means to find out. When young King Ottakar shows up at the Abbey wounded by a traitor's arrow, Mouse breaks church law to save him and then agrees to accompany him back to Prague as his personal healer....
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Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is declared a saint and finds her faith tested by the impending Mexican civil war.
Es 1889, y la guerra civil está elaborando cerveza en México. Una muchacha de 16 años, hija ilegítima pero querida de Teresita, del ranchero rico y de gran alcance pone a Tomas Urrea, estelas del sueño más extraño--un...
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