Frances de Pontes Peebles
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction has 2
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018. | Riverhead Books | 449 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F PEEBL Shirlington - Adult Fiction has 2 F PEEBL |
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 677 pages (large print) ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type LT F PEEBL |
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"The story of an intense female friendship fueled by admiration and affection, envy and pride -- and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other" --
An orphan, Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when she meets Graça, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron. Born to wildly different worlds, the girls quickly bond over shared mischief, and then, on a deeper level, over music. One has a voice...
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| 2009. | First Harper Perrenial edition. | Harper Perennial | 646 pages : map ; 20 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult Fiction F PEEBL |
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As seamstresses, the young sisters Emília and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, mend, and conceal-useful skills in the lawless backcountry of Brazil, where ruthless land barons feud with bands of outlaw cangaceiros, trapping innocent residents in the crossfire. Emília, a naive romantic, dreams of falling in love with a gentleman and escaping to a big city. Quick-tempered Luzia also longs for escape, finding it in her craft and secret prayers to...
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