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Paris (1), and her grandmother who finally talks about her experiences during WWII and shares the story she wrote while in captivity. Excellent (1), Their relationship began in high school in the 1960's was rekindled in Kenya in the 1970's and then again after 26 years in Toronto at a writer's festival. They both went on to have marriages (1), and families and when it all seems to come together in the end (1), it doesn't. (1), We fall in love with Nina as she goes from a young unmarried pregnant girl (1), falls in love with a priest (1), survives a long ordeal in jail (1), raises a son by herself (1), and finally finds love again. Great story! (1), her unlikely friend that has a horrible secret he has been hiding for over 60 years (1), but with a good ending. (1), Young Lavinia is orphaned on the way to America and becomes a white slave on a tobacco plantation. She is taken care of by a black family she loves and thinks of as her own. As she gets older she is gradually accepted in the big house but must choose betw (1), Parallel stories told by a granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor (1), After growing up next door Elle and Matt fall in love in high school. They go in diff. directions Matt becoming a neurosurgeon and Elle an astronaut. They continue to love each other despite diff. relationships. When both move back home they realize their (1), The story of a young slave girl and how she survives life on a plantation (1), from the deaths of those she loves (1), to passing as a white woman and marrying a white man (1), and then finally reuniting with the man she really loves. (1), Joy is in search of her family's past (1), her mother is busy with a new life and hiding her past and the book she wrote about it. After her husband talks her into finding a surrogate mother for their baby he has a heart attack and dies. Mother and daughter find a way to go on by planning her bat (1), A young couple marry and live the lonely life of lighthouse keepers. Because of the strong need to have a child the wife finds a baby washed up on shore and does the unthinkable. (1), Lenka and Josef are young and in love only to be separated by the Nazi invasion of Prague. Both assume the other to have been killed in concentration camps. Years later at a wedding of their grandchildren there is a spark of recognition when they see each (1), A gripping story of a young girl's life in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Excellent (1), Two childhood friends have a falling out as teenagers and don't communicate for 15 years when one shows up at the other's door needing help. Their adventure unfolds as they explore what went wrong when they were teenagers. (1), she mourning her sister and he the gravedigger. He and his brother are forced to leave the nuns at the convent where they were being raised. Eduardo goes to Rome to become a priest and Ciro goes to America. Enza and her father end up also going to America (1), The story of how two young boys met and became friends while living in two different worlds a few feet apart. (1), and more of his lessons learned and views of life. 3 stars because of it's length (1), The autobiography of Paul Rusesabagina detailing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda during which he kept over 1000 people alive in his hotel. (1), The story of Laura Ling's trip to So. Korea to film a documentary and subsequent capture (1), and her sister's 7 mo. fight to get her out. (1), Three sisters all home again because of their mother's illness revaluate what they have accomplished so far and what they want for their futures. (1), Two people devastated by the loss of their spouses (1), and fall in love again. This occurs with the help of their families (1), the staff at the ranch (1), and a program for teens in trouble. (1), Didn't hold interest (1), Great sequel to Shanghai Girls as Joy runs off to China only to get stuck there and near starvation when her mother rescues her daughter and grand-daughter. (1), Marian's past catches up to her when the young woman introduces her as her daughter. (1), A poignant story of a brother and sister who spend the summer with their father whom they haven't seen in years. (1), buying and selling of slaves (1), an impossible marriage (1), and the eventual conclusion as she now runs the big house and tries to make things right with both her families. (1), In her own words Jaycee describes her kidnapping and the following 18 years she was kept as a prisoner. (1), OK story but maddening attitudes about America (1), The intertwining lives of an older man (1), his friend and two sisters who run away form a pimp and live in the orchard. The man feeds them and later cares for one of the sisters and the other sister's daughter. (1), Great story with many ideas for book clubs. (1), One night after a knock at the door (1), The story begins in the Italian Alps when Enza and Ciro meet as young teens (1), Upon her birth Claire's mother dies. She is raised by her fisherman father. When she is 7 (1), A fun (1), Will gradually becomes dependent on Lou for everything. She learns of his plan to participate in his own death and takes up her own mission to give him every possible experience thus making life worth living. Will it work? Excellent! Hard to put down. (1), A picture of a girl Logan has never met becomes his lucky charm. After he returns home from war he goes on a cross country walk to find her. He gets a job working for her mother and slowly gets to know her family and fall in love. (1), Tess lives in San Francisco and works as an antiques priceor. Her life is changed when she finds out she has a grandfather and sister alive only a few hours away. As she visits them in their tranquil apple orchard she grows to love them and their way of l (1), From a mother (1), father and 6 brothers and sisters Riva and 2 brothers are the only ones left as the last of their fellow Jews from their ghetto get on the trains going to Auschwitz. This is a story of her strength and spirit that enabled her to survive. (1), Susannah Cahalan's story of her month of seizures (1), and madness and the following months of recovery. (1), Shyima was only 8 when she was given to a wealthy Egyptian family to pay off her sister's debt. When they moved to America they took her with them and she lived in secrecy as the family slave. This is the story of her life and long road to freedom. (1), Andre Agassi's autobiography. Very interesting book about his life and the world of tennis. (1), Fr. Gabriele Amorth chief exorcist of Rome tells of his many exorcisms and of the many demons at work in the world. (1), Lou is hired to take care of Will a quadriplegic. At first combative (1), Tilly moves from London to a small town to be closer to her best girlfriend. She gets a job as an assistant to an interior decorator. His best friend is the town's ladies man. Will Tilly succumb? Predictable (1), a total hip replacement that gave her new mobility as well as height (1), Interesting but sometimes boring. (1), Dragged on forever. Somewhat interesting but boring. Would I recommend it (1), A young couple with a nearly perfect marriage are anxious for their new baby's arrival only to be surprised when she appears African American (1), Anne Catherine Emmerich tells of her visions of Christ's life in 720 pages! Beginning with Mary's childhood and ending with her death this completely follows the gospels. Very interesting (1), Boring didn't hold interest (1), A young woman who has been homeless for all of her life that she can remember ends up on the run when she finds an old cabin in the woods not far from a small town. She befriends a kind old minister who marries her despite their differences (1), Engulfed in grief over being the cause of her sister's broken back when they were children (1), Eleanor almost singlehandedly supports her family. She takes on another job as a caretaker for an older woman and becomes caught up in her life. (1), Interesting story about the corresponding lives of several children and teens during WWII (1), in particular a young blind French girl who lives with her father and then great uncle (1), and her mother's death. (1), the animals she loved (1), he makes the decision to give her to another woman in the community. This is the story of the members of the community and how their lives intertwine. Interesting but not really about Claire as much as the adults that live around her. (1), also an orphan (1), Ten year old Darling is growing up in Zimbabwe under near starvation (1), strict rules and now no school. She frequently says "When I go to America" despite her friend's disbelief. Eventually she goes to live with her Aunt. Is America what she thought? (1), Begins in a small town in Afghanistan and follows families throughout their lives for 4 generations. They end up in far reaching places such as America (1), & Kabul (1), but remain interconnected. The book ends with the same two it started with (1), a brother and sister separated as young children each spending their lives missing the other. Interesting but not spell bounding. (1), Satisfying a community service requirement (1), a young girl helps an older woman organize her attic full of life's memorabilia. Their similar stories are told simultaneously (1), Vivian an orphan who rode the orphan train in 1929 and lived in various homes with impossible situations (1), and Molly (1), who can't find a home with loving people either. They become fast friends and help each other come to terms with their pasts. (1), from polio as a young child (1), loss of consciousness (1), From opposite sides of the track Amanda and Collier fall in love only to be separated after senior year. 25 years later they meet again at the funeral of their old friend Tuck who was their friend and mentor. Will they find love again? (1), Boring! A third of the way through and had to quit. (1), When the Khmer Rouge force everyone out of Cambodia into labor camps and refugee camps the Han family with 12 children adjust to the terrible conditions even stealing food for each other. With only 5 children surviving they are sponsored by an uncle in Or (1), The story of Liz Murray's life from a young girl trying to adjust to parents addicted to drugs and alcohol (1), to a young girl living on the streets (1), to a student at Harvard. A wonderful success story. (1), The story of Anne Lindberg and her marriage to one of the country's most famous men. Very interesting. (1), A great story about the history of slavery from Haiti to Louisiana. Love the main character for her strong personality but book dragged in some places. (1), Gail Caldwell's memoir of her life's unexpected turns (1), little book by Michael J. Fox. Includes a little of his movie history (1), and various life's ups and downs. (1), sad (1), her husband (1), The story of the lives of two teenage boys living in Afghanistan. (1), The early years of Un Loung and her survival and escape from Cambodia. (1), The continuing years of Un Loung in the US and the parallel life of her sister in Cambodia. (1), A great story about the lives of boys in an elite Japanese school and in particular their baseball team. (1), and the disfunctional family of Jeannette Walls (1), confident (1), No. (1), The story of a young boy's life as a slave in Africa to his escape to America. Couldn't put it down. (1), The story of an American woman who travels to Afganistan to open a beauty school. She changes the lives of all her students as they do hers. (1), A story of three generations of one family in Afganistan (1), The story of one boy's struggle with abuse and pornography (1), A wonderful story about the lives of various tennants and how they intertwine through the years. A great ending! (1), and another family's dealing with it and eventually fostering him. (1), The story of race relations and a rape trial in the Southern US. (1), A love story that follows a young girl's life in normal order and her husband whose life is interupted with time travel. (1), and the hardships faced by the women during war and ordinary family life. (1), A story of three generations of the Lee family. It takes place in the Chinese and Japanese communities of Seattle during WW II to the present (1), and also several internment camps. A story of first love and a lifelong journey to find it again. (1), A story of one boy's growing up in the South during the Depression. Boring and not what it's cracked up to be. (1), After the death of her parents (1), 3 yr. old Lizzie goes to live with her uncle Father Mike. They have 6 wonderful years together (1), only to be separated because of some misguided but maybe well-meaning church members. Their lives go on but only with great sadness and looking back. (1), A story about the reuniting of sisters after many years. (1), new jobs (1), even falling in love (1), young girl (1), interesting (1), gripping (1), paranoia (1), wish list (1), short (1), affairs (1), Indians (1), Greece (1), Pakistan (1), superstition (1), diseases (1), meet (1), forgive (1), loyalties (1), triumphs (1), miscarriages (1), prejudices (1), strong (1), anxiety (1), homelessness (1), her life (1), A biography about alcohol (1), The story of one persons life on the island of Molokai. From childhood into her adult life (1), we are captivated with the lives of the people forced to live in isolation because of leprosy. (1), amid illnesses (1), A haunting story of young twin girls who are left an apartment in London after their aunt dies. They move there only to be enveloped in the lives of the other people in the building as well as their aunt's and mother's past life. Also tells the story of g (1), The story of a young girl from Louisiana (1), her mother's death (1), falling in love only to see him leave (1), her move to New Orleans (1), attending beauty school (1), marrying a wonderful man (1), his death (1), and finally her return home where she finds her true self (1), opens a salon (1), and maybe love again. (1), During the Nazi roundup of Jews in France during the second WW a young girl hides her brother in a cupboard (1), and falls in love with her only friend-a 23 year old gas station proprietor who shares her love of checkers. (1), and is then shipped off with her parents to a holding camp where she escapes. This is a parallel story of a woman researching the roundup and Sarah's life. (1), A story of one family's past secrets. They are Jewish (1), not Catholic and were Polish Jews who survived concentration camps and kept their secrets for 50 years to protect their families until one daughter decides to uncover the past. (1), The story of 12 black women and the white families they work for. It takes place in Mississippi in the 60s during the civil rights movement. (1), A short group of paragraphs introducing the different characters that live or have lived on Mango Street as told through one young girls perspective. No plot. (1), Full of ghosts (1), and tradition of a young girls life in China. Falls in love (1), but is already bethroled to someone else (1), or so it seems. Through a cruel twist of fate she must live a life as a ghost watching the man she loves carry on his life. (1), The story of 5 friends who begin meeting at the park every week while their children play. They decide to meet every Wed. and write together. Their friendships grow as do their writing skills (1), A funny story of a group of mothers who meet at the playground with their children and a stay at home dad who eventually has an affair with one of the mothers. (1), starts a new school (1), Could be a great story of one woman's desire to introduce the women of Tehran to great literature. It dragged in so many places. Wanted more about the students and not the author's interpretation of the books. (1), one an adopted (1), Boring. Didn't finish. (1), When two college students meet in an English class they make an agreement to contact each other if either of them ever have an incredible story that takes place in their life that needs to be written. (1), The story of an american man's journey through Pakistan building schools to educate girls. (1), Realizing her daughter may be remembering her past life Grace decides to take Sylvie to the coast of Ireland to see if anything jars her memory. They end up solving the long mystery of the deaths of a mother and her daughter. (1), The story of a young girl (1), who at 16 was sent to live with her uncle in Canada. She meets a mountie and follows him to British Columbia. Their life is filled with tragedies (1), loss of loved ones and almost whole communities due to diphtheria (1), and falling out of love only to find it again. Sold more than a million copies it's first year in print (1947). (1), A touching story about Alice Eve Cohen (1), and her two daughters (1), and the other a small child with disabilities (1), after her mother dies lives alone with her father (1), a zest for life and a wonderful surprise. (1), A story told in a series of letters written back and forth between an author and the members of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society-a book club on the island of Guernsey England. It reveals the Nazi's occupation of the island during WWII and (1), so does a romance between the author and a certain islander. (1), A wonderful story of two sisters growing up in Shanghai (1), escaping to Los Angeles into arranged marriages (1), and how their love for their adopted families and each other survived throughout their lives. (1), Two stories told simultaneously (1), one about a young girl who died prematurely in the 19th century (1), and the other about the author's own son whom she has lost to drugs. Sometimes hard to read but needing to know the outcome the reader is forced to read to the end where you are given reason to hope. (1), A coming of age story about a 13 year-old girl who (1), and a young German boy with a gift with radios. Not the ending I hoped for. (1)
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Trefwoordenwolk, Auteurswolk, Trefwoordenspiegel
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Sep 4, 2007
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Priscilla
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