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  • Who Cares?
    Ann S. Epstein
    'Makes the case with passion, spirit and humor, for the full personhood of the elderly and disabled.' Sara Bolder, Co-Producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary ’Crip Camp’Who Cares? is the story of a lively place where old people go to die. Set in Michigan in 1960, the Woodruff Home for the Aged is a public facility for the indigent elderly. When a sinking economy prompts cit...
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    19,64 €

  • The Sister Knot
    Ann S. Epstein
    'A moving, thorough, and entrancing novel about how two orphaned young Berlin women become each other’s family during and after the Holocaust.' Simone Yehuda, contributing author of The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the HolocaustIn the heart-wrenching tapestry of The Sister Knot, an enthralling tale unfolds, weaving the resilient bond of a female friendship aga...
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    19,42 €

  • One Person’s Loss
    Ann S. Epstein
    It’s 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Nazi Germany for Brooklyn, admonished by their parents to have children to 'save our people.' Following a miscarriage, Petra becomes obsessed with adopting a Jewish infant abandoned at a Coney Island exhibit of incubator babies. Erich isn’t so sure. A struggle begins about when-and even if-they should start a family.Meanwhile, the couple agonize...
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    19,54 €

  • The Great Stork Derby
    Ann S. Epstein / Ann SEpstein
    It’s 1926 in Toronto, and Emm Benbow pressures his wife to have babies for cash.An ambitious Emm Benbow convinces his wife, Izora, to enter the Great Stork Derby, a contest which offers a sizable cash award to the woman who has the most babies between 1926 and 1936. But soon his ambition turns into a ruthless obsession and addiction, and despite Izora’s efforts, he is disappoin...
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    19,69 €

  • A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve
    Ann S Epstein
    A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. is a fictional biography of Meinhardt Raabe, a midget hired to play a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz. Meinhardt wants the dignity and respect given normal people, yet his disability makes him mistrust even those who can see past it. He devotes his life to succeeding in work, but wonders if it has been at the cost of friendship and love. The narrative ...
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  • Tazia and Gemma
    Ann S Epstein / Ann S. Epstein / Ann SEpstein
    It’s 1911. Tazia survives fire, and she’s unwed, pregnant and Italian in America.Tazia, a pregnant seventeen-year-old Italian immigrant and survivor of the Triangle Waist Company fire, flees New York, leaving her married lover to think she miscarried the baby he urged her to abort. To support herself and her daughter Gemma, Tazia takes low-wage jobs as she migrates westward.Gem...
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    19,65 €

  • On the Shore
    Ann Epstein / Ann S. Epstein / Ann SEpstein
    Sam is sixteen and an American Jew. He lies about his age to fight in WWI.Set in 1917-1925, On the Shore follows the upheaval in an immigrant Jewish family when, without telling his family, 16-year-old Shmuel Levinson (a.k.a. Sam Lord) strives to prove his manhood, and escape his father’s pressure that he become a rabbi, by enlisting in the Navy.His smart but rebellious younger...
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    19,59 €