Tracy Chevalier
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James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what...
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The changing social climate in England, spurred by the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, is reflected in the lives of Maude Coleman and Lavinia Waterhouse, two young girls of different classes who meet and become fast friends while their families are visiting adjoining funeral plots.
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This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre.
A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her books featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today. And who could forget one of literatures' best-known lines: "Reader, I married him" from her classic
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Tracy Chevalier brings Shakespeare’s Othello—a harrowing drama of jealousy and revenge—to a 1970s era elementary school playground.
Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat’s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day—so he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can’t stand to witness this budding...
Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat’s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day—so he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can’t stand to witness this budding...
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"The Virgin Blue is a dark, mysterious tale that weaves the stories of two women in two different centuries into an increasingly complex web. From her perch in the 20th century, Ella Turner is unsure at first whose voice she hears, whose emotions she feels, and why she dreams not in black and white, but in blue. Not a common color of blue. Not a color that matches any other blue in her house. But a blue that generates conflicting feelings-- 'a sudden...
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A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Brontë, stemming from the immortal words from Jane Eyre. The twenty-one stories in Reader, I Married Him are inspired by Jane Eyre and shaped by its perennially fascinating themes of love, compromise and self-determination. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, this collection brings together some of the finest voices in fiction today, to celebrate the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë's...
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"Países Bajos, siglo XVII. La joven Griet, de dieciseis años, entra a trabajar al servicio de Johannes Vermeer en la ciudad de Delft. Griet parece saber cuál es su papel en la casa: ocuparse de las tareas domesticas y cuidar a los seis niños del pintor. Sin embargo, la sensibilidad de la muchacha llama la atención de Vermeer, quien le abre las puertas de su mundo y su trabajo. A medida que la intimidad crece entre ambos, tambien lo hacen la tensión...
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Antes de que Darwin escandalizara al mundo entero con sus teorías sobre el origen de las especies, hubo alguien que ya dudaba, buscaba, hacía preguntas En las playas llenas de fósiles de la costa inglesa, Mary Anning, una muchacha pobre y sin educación, y la huraña Elizabeth Philpot, una solterona de clase media, trabarán amistad, unidas por una misma pasión: el deseo de buscar las huellas de la vida en los fósiles y revelar así la historia...
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"The story of two young people marked by the precariousness, the intolerance towards their desire and the family uprooting."
"La joven Violet Speedwell parece inexorablemente destinada a una existencia como mujer soltera. La Gran Guerra le ha arrebatado a su prometido, como a otras mujeres que, con los soldados, han visto partir su posibilidad de contraer matrimonio. Solo tiene una salida: ahorrar lo suficiente para dejar la casa familiar y establecerse...
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When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight. Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, and in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world, Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally.
15) El chico nuevo
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Corren los años setenta en Washington D.C. cuando Osei Kokote, un chico de once años, se presenta por primera vez en su nuevo colegio. Hijo de un diplomático de Ghana, ha vivido siempre de ciudad en ciudad, dejando atrás amigos y hogares. Pero cuando conoce a los que van a ser sus compañeros, se encuentra con niños que han heredado, sin tener conciencia de ello, un cruel recelo hacia la gente de color, una desconfianza irracional contagiada...
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"Un homenaje a los hombres y mujeres que forjan la historia. Los Goodenough han dejado atrás la Nueva Inglaterra del siglo XIX para instalarse en los pantanos de Ohio, llevando algunas ramas de manzano. Pero al plantarlas, en su huerto se hunden también las semillas de la discordia entre marido y mujer. Mientras que James adora las manzanas dulces, Sadie prefi ere refugiarse en la sidra. Ante estas diferencias irreconciliables, Robert, el menor...
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This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers--including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more--takes inspiration from the opening line in Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre. A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her novels featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today....