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1085) boygenius
Author
Publisher
Matador Records
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus formed boygenius after booking a tour together, but the trio had subconsciously been in the works for longer than that. Through a series of tours and performances together, and chance encounters that led to friendships ? including Bridgers? and Dacus? first in-person meeting backstage at a Philadelphia festival, greenroom hangouts that felt instantly comfortable and compatible, a couple of long email chains...
1092) The drop box
Publisher
Arbella Studios
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Examines the work of Pastor Jong-rak Lee, who accepts into his family infants placed anonymously in the "baby box" at the front of his church in Seoul, South Korea.
1094) Thao's library
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Thao is a young Vietnamese woman who sits in a wheelchair with physical deformities due to the effects of Agent Orange. Despite her struggles, her one driving desire is to buy more books for her makeshift library. Half a world away an American woman, Elizabeth, is fighting a crippling depression brought on by her famed younger sister's sudden death. When she hears of Thao's wish, she experiences a spark of hope. She travels halfway around the...
1098) The silent twins
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales and became known as "the silent twins" because of their refusal to communicate with anyone but each other.
1099) Hershele andekt America
Author
Series
Hershele of Ostropole volume 5
Publisher
Kindre Shpiel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Yiddish
Description
"The cruel Poritz of Ludika once again has an idea of how to harm Hershele and the people of Ostropole! Like Paraoh in Mitzrayim, he lures the Jews to come to America and work under comfortable conditions (minimal wage-a penny a week, three meals of mud cereal a day, and sadistic overseers). Have the people of Ostropole been sentenced to pick cotton till the end of their days? Hershele leaves with his nephew Yudele on a journey across the country...