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1) Moloka'i
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"Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i. In her exile she finds a family of friends...
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Based on the true story of America's only leper colony, the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century. For Mirielle West, a 1920's socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable fall from her intoxicatingly chic life of bootlegged champagne...
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"A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson's Red at The Bone, Netflix's Atypical, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Victor Chin's life is turned upside down at the tender age of 15. Diagnosed with...
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In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan's Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her past. Her name is erased from her family records, and she is forced to select a new one. To the two thousand patients on the island of Nagashima, she becomes Miss Fuji. Although...
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From the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sharon Kay Penman comes the story of the reign of King Baldwin IV and the Kingdom of Jerusalem's defense against Saladin's famous army. The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as Outremer, is the land far beyond the sea. Baptized in blood when the men of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem from the Saracens in the early twelfth century, the kingdom defined an utterly new world, a land of...
9) Dark serpent
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Summer 1311, and Sir Hugh Corbett has taken up a life of danger again. After his recent unveiling of a devious assassin, Sir Hugh Corbett has returned to service as the Keeper of the Secret Seal, begrudgingly admitting that his appetite for adventure has once again been whetted. Summoned to meet the King to be congratulated on their work together, Corbett and Ranulf learn of the death of Corbett's close friend, Ralph Grandison. Ralph, a leper, has...
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A principios del siglo XX en Colombia, las autoridades crearon un pueblo cercado para recluir a los enfermos de lepra llamado Agua de Dios. Esta situación de apartheid llevó a muchas familias a la separación: padres e hijos que no se verían nunca más, novios cuyo amor no sería más que una promesa, enfermos solitarios que fueron expulsados de la sociedad por estar contagiados de una enfermedad de la que poco se sabía, pero que procuró soliviantar...
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Piękno natury nie zawsze współgra z pięknem ludzkich dusz... W 1957 r. na jednej z greckich wysp wydarzyła się ogromna tragedia. Spinalonga - wyspa, na której zlokalizowana była kolonia osób chorujących na trąd - przestaje być dla nich miejscem bezpiecznym. Podczas jednej z upalnych nocy dochodzi do wydarzeń, których druzgocące konsekwencje wpłyną na życie wielu greckich rodzin. Dwie siostry, Anna i Marta tracą w jednym momencie...