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  • And Not to Count the Cost
    Gillian Thornhill
    After several years of disappointment, Isabel fails to conceive the baby she desperately wants. Adoption seems to be the answer, but when hope and joyful aspirations turn to failure and heartbreak, it is difficult not to resort to bitterness. Although the characters are fictitious, much of this novel is based on real events, and doubtless these problems are replicated all over ...
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    16,14 €

  • Escape to Manchuria!
    Gillian Thornhill
    In 1939, to escape Nazi persecution and genocide, Margarethe (now Margalit) and her family flee Germany to travel halfway round the world, firstly to Shanghai, where stateless people were admitted without visa or passport, and then on to Manchuria. ...
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    13,96 €

  • Elisaveta
    Gillian Thornhill
    In 1917, Elisaveta, aged 4 years, is forced to leave St.Petersburg with her parents and younger sister. In company with many others, she becomes a refugee in Paris, via Odessa and Constantinople (Istanbul). Later, stateless and alone, she travels to England.This story, inspired by reality, traces her struggles and work, her loves and losses, and her development as a human being...
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    16,67 €

  • The Life, Times and Music of Mark Raphael
    Gillian Thornhill
    This biography explores the life of Harris Furstenfeld, born in 1900 of Polish Jewish immigrant parents into the dire poverty of London’s East End. Fatherless six weeks after his birth, his childhood is one of hardship and deprivation, yet his love of music transcends the squalor of his surroundings. His mind is filled with the immovable ambition to become a concert singer, no ...
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    19,87 €