LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul barlin

7 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul barlin

paul barlin Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Bumping into History
    Paul Barlin
    Born in 1916 to Jewish immigrants, Paul Barlin graduates from high school and is dumped into the Depression. From that point on, his life is interwoven with historical events of Depression era America. In his own words, Barlin tells of coping with 'Christian Only' notices in the scarce want ads, unfair treatment from union busting industries, and his own personal struggles with...
    Disponible

    22,76 €

  • In White America
    Paul Barlin
    Jessica Keebler, director of the Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions in 1955, faces an almost insurmountable crisis. There’s a logjam of unadoptable babies and a severe lack of adequate foster homes for these children. The crux of this issues rests with a statute in California’s adoption law stating '... an interracial child is a non-white and may be given only to a Negro fa...
    Disponible

    13,62 €

  • The Immigrant
    Paul Barlin
    In 1903 in oppressive Russia, fifteen-year-old Yussel Reinerman must masquerade as a Christian to be accepted as an apprentice shoemaker. Despite shearing his Orthodox earlocks, isolating himself from his family, and denying his culture, his guise is ultimately discovered. Desperate and on the run for his life, Yussel boards a ship for America, where he seeks the freedom to liv...
    Disponible

    12,46 €

  • The Yellow Line
    Paul Barlin
    Three generations of the Reinerman family desperately search out ways to survive the anti-Semitism of the Czarist Empire. Grandparents Elihu and Sarah flee the massacre of the Jews in the Novgorod ghetto in 1865. They head north to Riga where the Holy Host has not yet painted the yellow line around Riga’s Jewish ghetto. They save their young sons, Herschel and Duvvid, but lose ...
    Disponible

    14,09 €

  • A Dancer on the Edge
    Paul Barlin
    Fifteen year-old Jill is a talented dancer but a failing student, yet pretends to her mother Ellen that 'school is fine.' She continues to spend her time with parties and dating rather than study. One date goes too far and Jill is panicked about possible pregnancy. Jill continues her downhill slide until Ellen receives a letter from school that Jill will be suspended if she doe...
    Disponible

    11,13 €

  • From Andrew, with Love
    Paul Barlin
    Even the streetwise detectives in King County, Washington, are baffled by the death of fourteen-year-old Andrew Waterford. On the surface, the case is just another teenage suicide, but the police can find no trace of Andrew’s fingerprints on the gun. Then the forensic lab discovers the fingerprints of all four remaining Waterford family members on what could now be labeled a mu...
    Disponible

    11,01 €

  • From Andrew, with Love
    L Paul Barlin / L. Paul Barlin
    ...
    Disponible

    20,06 €