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From the award-winning author of The Book of V., an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier
When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut...
When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut...
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All-of-a-kind family volume 3
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The continuing adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ella misses her boyfriend who's off to fight in World War I, Henny spills tea on a borrowed dress, Sarah tries for a prize at school, Charlotte takes the elevated train without paying her fare, Gertie makes a pancake and Charlie's terrified when he meets Santa. Then Mama is hospitalized to have her appendix removed, and all must pull...
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Orphan monster spy series volume 1
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"Germany, 1939. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah, finds herself on the run from a government that wants to see her, along with every other Jew, dead. Then she meets a mysterious man who needs Sarah to pull off a spy mission he can't attempt on his own: infiltrate a boarding school attended by the daughters of Nazi top brass, befriend the girl whose father is a high-ranking scientist, and find the blueprints to a bomb...
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