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A riveting journey to save one life.
An American music icon, Nola Sands, is on a concert tour in China when a baby is thrust into her arms. Resolved to save the infant from death in a Chinese orphanage, Nola finds herself on a collision course with her husband/manager, with her record label company’s interests in China—and with the world's two superpowers determined to silence her.
In a story of an adoptive parent’s unwavering love, Nola's flight across China is a tale not only of human rights abuses running amok in an astonishingly picturesque land: It is the gripping self-discovery voyage of a woman coming into her own.
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P>STRONG>In a tale of passion and rescue, an abandoned Chinese infant drives an unwitting pop star a to become formidable heroine/STRONG>./P>
P>While American music icon Nola Sands is on a goodwill concert tour in China, a baby is thrust into her arms. Nola’s well-orchestrated life is thrown out of orbit as she bonds with the infant against her husband-manager’s plans. She resolves to save the baby from death in the dumping ground of China’s orphanages—only to find herself on a collision course w | |  | | Hotel Moscow
While investigating business crime in Moscow, an American woman is caught in the 1993 parliament uprising against president Yeltsin, encounters anti-Semitism, and must come to terms with both her parents' Holocaust legacy and her own mistakes that might compromise her future.
An American woman travels to st1:city w:st="on">Moscow/st1:city> shortly after the fall of communism, counsels Russian women and finds herself embroiled in their perilous mafia conspiracy--while she faces her own Jewish legacy in a country steeped in anti-Semitism.
p class="MsoNormal">A moving, poignant, and rich novel, i>Hotel Moscow/i> is an eye-opening portrait of post-communist st1:place w:st="on">Russia/st1:place> and a profound exploration of faith, family, and heritage.o:p>/o:p>
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| |  | | JERUSALEM MAIDEN
In Jerusalem in 1911 under the backward Ottoman rule, the feisty Esther begins a life-long struggle between her passion for art and her society’s strict religion. As her talent for art hurls her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, city and the Holy Land—and the allure of the one man forbidden to her—she faces the bitter question: to whom must she be true, to God or to herself?
Esther Kaminsky knows that her duty is to marry young and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah’s arrival: that is what expected of young ultra-Orthodox women in Jerusalem at the end of the Ottoman Empire’s rule. But when her French teacher catches Esther's extraordinary doodling and gives her colored pencils and art lessons, Esther wonders if God has a special destiny for her: maybe she is meant to be an artist, not a mother; maybe she is meant to travel to Paris, not stay in Jerusalem.
In the coming years, as Esther sacrifices her yearning for painting and devot | |  | | Puppet Child
When the justice system fails her daughter, one courageous mother takes matters into her own hands. In a wrenching race against time, the safety of one child becomes entangled in the theatrics of family court, bottled-up family dynamics, media frenzy, and the pressure of the political machine.
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strong> Motherhood. The most profound human experience is being put to the test. /strong>
Rachel Belmore is a poised, determined, yet vulnerable advertising executive fighting to bar her charming former husband, Dr. Wesley Belmore, from molesting their five-year-old daughter, Ellie. Caught in a nightmarish justice system, Rachel’s odyssey takes a | |  | | The Third Daughter
“In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century. Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered, this is an important and unforgettable story of exploitation and empowerment that will leave you both shaken and inspired.” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris
The turn of the 20th century finds fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America.
Feeling like a princess in a fairytale, Batya leaves her old life behind as she is whisked away to a new world. But soon she discovers that she’s entered a waking nightmare. Her new “husband” does indeed bring her to America: Buenos Aires, a vibrant, growing city in which prostitution is not only legal but deeply embedded in the culture. And now Batya is one of thousands of women tricked and sold into a brothel.
As the years pass, Batya forms deep bonds with her “sisters” in the house as well as some men who are both kind and cruel. Through it all, she holds onto one dream: to bring her family to America, where they will be safe from the anti-Semitism that plagues Russia. Just as Batya is becoming a known tango dancer, she gets an unexpected but dangerous opportunity—to help bring down the criminal network that has enslaved so many young women and has been instrumental in developing Buenos Aires into a major metropolis.
A powerful story of finding courage in the face of danger, and hope in the face of despair, The Third Daughter brings to life a dark period of Jewish history and gives a voice to victims whose truth deserves to finally be told.
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Cemetery Island
by Mr. Ed
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 Sometimes, vacations just don't turn out the way you hoped they would. An idyllic wilderness house boating get-a-way soon turns into a hellish nightmare... |
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