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After seven years of going through Hell, adjusting to a new life, a new town and new people are the least of Zoey's problems. First of all, she has to learn how to breathe again, how to stop her body from reacting to any touch, no matter how small, and how not to flinch at every noise. She has to learn how to no longer be an empty and haunted shell. She must find a way to silence her demons so she can learn what it means to be alive. But surely the old and rickety bridge on the outskirts of the city, a hidden, forgotten and unsafe place, which she finds by chance, does not make her job any easier. Not when the swirling cold waters beckon her with a sweet song to abandon all her fears, to dro...
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"This book is based on the records of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. The Registry is a computer database that lists more than 170,000 names of Holocaust survivors and some members of their families. The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors first established a national registry in 1981 to document the lives of survivors who came to the United States after World War II ... The Registry includes the names of Holocaust survivors who are now deceased, but does not indicate that they have passed away ... this published version only includes information about the survivors based on their individual files."--Introduction
An instant best seller since its debut in 1992, Nermin Bezmen's Kurt Seyt & Shura is a classic of contemporary Turkish literature, a sweeping romantic drama set around the time as the splendor of Imperial Russia is obliterated in the wake of the Great War. Bezmen tells the story of two star-crossed lovers fleeing the wave of devastation wreaked by the Bolshevik Revolution-- and does so with great sensitivity: one half of this couple who sought refuge in the capital of the dying Ottoman Empire was her grandfather.Translated into 12 languages, Kurt Seyt & Shura inspired a sumptuous T.V. series that continues to enchant millions of viewers across the world.With the publication of this novel in ...