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|  | | Becoming Alice, A Memoir
Becoming Alice is a true story about a very young Jewish girl who survives the Holocaust and starts a new life in America
font size="2" face="Verdana">Six-year-old Ilse watches Nazi troops march down her street in Vienna, not knowing the tyranny of the holocaust will soon follow. With innocence and bewilderment she sees prejudice turn into a threat of death for her Jewish family. br />
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Ilse survives a harrowing escape that ends in Portland, Oregon. Traumatized by these events and being different from other children as a refugee, she struggles to fit into the American landscape. She suffers even more distress because of the discord between her troubled family: an overbearing father, stressed mother, | |  | | The Other Side of Him
It is the fifties. A smart, successful girl finds herself entrapped by a stalker despite her most street-savvy senses.
It’s the middle of the twentieth century, WWII is finally over, and Claire Wagner is on the brink of an exciting new life. With a well-deserved scholarship in hand, and much to her immigrant mother’s dismay, Claire flees the Chicago tenements for a prestigious graduate school program in California.o:p> /o:p>
p class="MsoNormal">At first Claire keeps her nose tucked firmly into her books, but when her brother asks for a favor, she reluctantly agrees to a blind date. Greg turns out to be handsome, successful, and rich. While dating, it is evident that he is definitely |
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Galveston, 1900 Indignities, The Arrival
by N Brown
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 Compelling historical fiction that traces the life of a young English immigrant woman who travels to America at the turn of the century to start a new life for herself. Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, she strives to fit into a |
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