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The daughter of a papermaker in a small French village in the year 1320 mute from birth and forced to shun normal society young Auda finds solace and escape in the wonder of the written word. Believed to be cursed by those who embrace ignorance and superstition, Auda's very survival is a testament to the strength of her spirit. But this is an age of Inquisition and intolerance, when difference and defiance are punishable "sins" and new ideas are considered...
42) The bone people
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This unusual novel, set in New Zealand, concentrates on three people: Kerewin Holmes, a part-Maori painter who has chosen to isolate herself in a tower she built from lottery winnings; Simon, a troubled and mysterious little boy; and Joe Gillayley, the Maori factory worker who is Simon's foster father. Elements of Maori myth and culture are woven into the novel's exploration of the passions and needs that bind these three people together, for good...
45) A trail untamed
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Wagon train matches volume Book 3
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"August is a loner and prefers it that way. He only took the marriage wager to gain breathing room from his overbearing older brother. Besides, the wagon train still has a long journey before it reaches Oregon. Maybe he'll meet someone who turns his head. Felicity longs for love and family, someone to choose her above all. After a wagon train accident robs her of her voice and leaves her dependent on the kindness of strangers, she finds herself in...
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"Bernardo Atxaga's Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a young boy who has returned from his French boarding school to his uncle's bakery, where his family hopes he will speak again. He's been silent since an incident in which he threw a stone at a teacher for reasons unknown. With the assistance of twin brothers who take him to a river in the forest, he'll...
53) Babu's song
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In Tanzania, Bernardi's mute grandfather makes him a wonderful music box and then helps him realize his dream of owning a soccer ball and going to school.
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Hardened by the abuses of her family, Clea packs up her kids and drives to the clapboard house of her childhood guardian, a woman with whom she has shared an abiding bond that is tested by Clea's exploration of her painful past as part of an effort to understand the elusive nature of happiness.
56) Hush
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"Lily Emmett prefers to stay silent. Having suffered from selective mutism since childhood, she still struggles to see the value of everyday speech. Her sister, Connie, has always spoken for her, and her partner, Richard, has learnt to translate her movements so that they share a unique form of communication. When the two sisters return to their childhood home after their mother's death, the visit inspires memories of the event that first rendered...
57) La voz de Archer
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Cuando Bree Prescott llega a Pelion, un pequeño pueblo en el condado de Maine, anhela contra toda esperanza que ese sea el lugar donde finalmente pueda encontrar la paz que busca con desesperación. El primer día en su nuevo entorno se tropieza con Archer Hale, un hombre silencioso que vive aislado por un dolor tan intenso como el de ella. Bree y Archer empiezan a sentirse atraídos el uno por el otro. Un deseo irresistible que los empuja a acercarse...
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County Clare mystery volume 2
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"In Lisfenora, Ireland, a strange fog has rolled in off the Atlantic. Along with the fog comes tales of Grey Man, a predatory faery of local lore who snatches innocent souls into his deadly gloom. And with the mists come murder. When a teenage boy dies in Detective Sergeant Danny Ahern's arms, Danny finds himself pursuing his own grey man, a killer who becomes more elusive the closer Danny gets to the truth. A mute woman may be the key to solving...
59) Bez słów
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When Bree Prescott arrives in the sleepy, lakeside town of Pelion, Maine, she hopes that this is the place where she will finally find the peace she so desperately seeks. On her first day there, her life collides with Archer Hale, an isolated and silent man who holds a secret agony of his own.
Czy są takie rany, których miłość nie zdoła uleczyć? Czasem słowa nie są potrzebne, by wyrazić, co kryje się w sercu. Archer, obarczony niewypowiedzianym...
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"Jillian Guzmán, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book, communicates through drawings rather than speech as she travels with her mother, Angie O'Malley, throughout the borderlands of Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Later she creates survival maps for border crossers and paints murals at the Casa de los Olvidados, a refuge in Sonora run by the traditional healer Juana of God. These darkly funny tales, focusing on Mexican-American, Euro-American,...