Jonathan Kis Lev
1) The Teacher
Author
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Alabama, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment and racial tensions that defined the era. Annie Sullivan, an inexperienced 20-year-old teacher, is invited to aid a sickly deaf-blind girl who is considered dumb, and whose parents contemplate sending to an insane asylum.
When the young teacher agrees to treat the child with her experimental "manual alphabet," she never expects that she will...
Author
Language
English
Description
In their early teens, two girls were forced to sit next to each other in school. Although they were complete opposites−one a social butterfly and the other a withdrawn bookworm−they soon realized that they shared similar hopes and dreams. Over time, against all expectations, they became best friends.
Until the war broke out.
Now, each was thrown into opposite sides of the conflict. And mistakes were made−unforgivable mistakes, that would shape...