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"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
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Texas, 1921. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y Estados Unidos parece entrar en una nueva era de optimismo y abundancia. Pero para Elsa, considerada demasiado mayor para casarse en una época en la que el matrimonio es la única opción de una mujer, el futuro es incierto. Hasta la noche en que conoce a Rafe Martinelli y decide cambiar la dirección de su vida. Con su reputación arruinada, solo le queda una opción respetable: casarse con un hombre al...
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Teksas, rok 1934. Miliony ludzi pozostają bez pracy, a susza pustoszy Wielkie Równiny. Rolnicy walczą o zachowanie ziemi i dobytku. Plony są niskie, studnie wysychają, a burze pyłowe niszczą wszystko na swojej drodze. W tych niepewnych, niebezpiecznych czasach Elsa Martinelli musi dokonać bolesnego wyboru: walczyć o ziemię, którą kocha, czy udać się do Kalifornii w poszukiwaniu lepszego życia? "Gdzie poniesie wiatr" to niezapomniany...
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Ten-year-old Orry Jenkins is sick and tired of the dust. The year is 1935 and Kansas hasn't gotten enough rain in years. Instead of rainstorms, they get dust storms. One day, Orry and his little stepsister go outside to play. They're far from home when a huge dust storm comes up. Stranded alone on the plains, the children must find a way to survive the terrible black blizzard.
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, The four winds: "From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the...
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"Vse z͡hytti͡a ïĭ kazaly, shcho vona slabka ĭ neharna. Vse z͡hytti͡a za nei͡u dohli͡adaly, ale ne li͡ubyly. Vse z͡hytti͡a vona vvaz͡hala sebe zaĭvoi͡u ta povodylasi͡a tykho, i͡ak myshka, shchob ne obti͡az͡huvaty soboi͡u rodynu. Ale odnoho dni͡a vse raptom zminylosi͡a, i Elʹza opynylasi͡a v novomu, nevidomomu ïĭ sviti. Ïĭ dovelosi͡a bahato prat͡si͡uvaty, opyratysi͡a holodu ta pidtrymuvaty blyzʹkykh li͡udeĭ. Krov...
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