Anthea Bell
42) Underground in Berlin: a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
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English
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Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
46) The red shoes
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English
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Karen's great pride, her red shoes, doom her to dance forever, until a drastic action and much repentance and suffering bring her the forgiveness she has craved.
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2014.
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English
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"The #1 bestselling international phenomenon that asks, If you won the lottery, would you trade your life for the life of your dreams? Jocelyne lives in a small town in France where she runs a fabric shop, has been married to the same man for twenty-one years, and has raised two children. She is beginning to wonder what happened to all those dreams she had when she was seventeen. Could her life have been different? Then she wins the lottery-and suddenly...
49) The nightingale
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English
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Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale. Though the emperor banishes the nightingale in preference for a jeweled mechanical imitation, the little bird remains faithful and returns years later when the emperor is near death and no one else can help him.
50) Thumbeline
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English
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The adventures of a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb and her many animal friends.
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Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
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2022.
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English
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"Ben and the Greenblooms must protect a mythical new creature rising from the ocean--a creature who can bring either light or darkness to whoever it first meets. Now not even baby dragons can keep Ben and the Greenblooms from heading to California where the vast, mythical Aurelia will appear. It's a race against time to protect it, for if the Aurelia is hurt, all fabulous creatures will vanish from Earth. In the end, though, it may take the arrival...
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Interlink Books
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2011.
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English
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Even as a young man, Hamid Farsi is acclaimed as a master of the art of calligraphy. But as time goes by, he sees that weaknesses in the Arabic language and its script limit its uses in the modern world. In a secret society, he works out schemes for radical reform, never guessing what risks he is running and how far the purists are willing to go to stop him. His beautiful wife, Nura, is ignorant of the great plans on her husband's mind. She knows...