Anthony Doerr
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English
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
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Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr's gorgeous third novel is a triumph story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope--and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness--with other species, with each other, with...
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Zhong xin chu ban she
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
中文
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Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but...
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Lan xiao shuo volume 341
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Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
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中文
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2011], p2010
Language
English
Description
For ten years, Herb and Imogene maintain careful contraception practices. So when they decide to discontinue birth control, they eagerly, jubilantly, await the spark of life. But weeks turn into months, and as the regularity of Imogene's period signals an end to something never begun, the weight of failure pushes Herb to the breaking point.
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Modan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
עברית
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Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter...