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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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Delphinium Books
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[2020]
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English
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Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician serving a three-year sentence, hopes an acquaintance he's been...
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Maeva
Pub. Date
[2011]
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Español
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"Junio de 1941, Kaunas, Lituania. Lina tiene quince años y todo un verano por delante antes de matricularse en una escuela de arte. Pero, de repente, una noche, la policía secreta soviética irrumpe en su casa y se la lleva en camisón junto con su madre y su hermano. Su padre, profesor universitario, ha desaparecido ese mismo día. Lina relata el largo viaje que emprenden, junto con otros deportados lituanos, hasta los campos de trabajo de Siberia....
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Polis Books
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2019.
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English
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Natalie March is a respected surgeon enjoying a busy, productive life in Washington DC. As her demanding career has left little time for friends or romance, her deepest relationship is with her mother, Vera March, a Russian immigrant and MS patient confined to a rehabilitation center. Vera is still haunted by the fact that her Ukrainian parents, innocent of any wrongdoing, were sent to the gulag, Stalin's notorious network of labor camps, when she...
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