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"Winged beings are meant to be free. And so are artists, but the Cuban government has criminalized any art that doesn’t meet their approval. Soleida and her parents protest this injustice with their secret sculpture garden of chained birds. Then a hurricane exposes the illegal art, and her parents are arrested. Soleida escapes to Central America alone, joining the thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica while seeking asylum elsewhere....
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"Maria Florkowska is many things: daughter, avid chess player, and, as a member of the Polish underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a young woman brave beyond her years. Captured by the Gestapo, she is imprisoned in Auschwitz, but while her family is sent to their deaths, she is spared. Realizing her ability to play chess, the sadistic camp deputy, Karl Fritzsch, decides to use her as a chess opponent to entertain the camp guards. However,...
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Once upon a dukedom volume 3
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"When his father, the Duke of Wolfford, is hanged for an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, Marcus Stanwick is stripped of everything. Vowing to return honor to his family, he seeks to expose the others involved in the treasonous plot and bring them to justice. His search forces him to turn to a woman he despises for her unforgiveable betrayal—a woman known as the heartless harlot. Harboring secrets, Esme Lancaster has her own reasons for...
4) Taming papa
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"Mélie doesn’t know how to relate to her father, a political prisoner in another country whom she has never met, when he is released and immigrates to join her family in Montreal. 'Where I come from, you have to say the same things as everyone else or keep quiet,' Mélie’s mother tells her. 'And your father is not someone who knows how to keep quiet. Or say the same thing as everyone else. So that got him in trouble.' However, ever since he came...
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"Set in the 1930s at the height of the Great Purge and show trials of a Stalinist Moscow, Darkness at Noon follows former party leader and aging revolutionary Nikolai Rubashov as he is imprisoned, tortured, and forced through a series of hearing by the corrupt regime he helped create. As the pressure to confess to preposterous crimes increases, he relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayal of a merciless totalitarian movement masking...
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"Samuel has lived alone on an island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel—who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths—always buries them himself. One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing. As he nurses...
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