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Away by Amy Bloom
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Moll Flanders in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her way-and find her daughter-in the hip, harsh 1920s.On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered ...Show more
Away by Amy Bloom
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"Away" is the extraordinary story of young Lillian Leyb. Her family destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way. In 1920s New York, she is taken under the wing of Mr Reuben Burstein, the famous Impresario and his matinee-idol son Meyer. But then her wily cou ...Show more
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An astonishing and brave memoir of life, love, and assisted death, from the author of White Houses. In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill and for the ...Show more
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
22.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
When Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to have much in common - except, they soon discover, a father. Thrown together with no mothers to care for them and a father who could not be considered a parent, Iris and Eva become one another's family. Iris wants to be a movie ...Show more
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
When Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to have much in common - except, they soon discover, a father. Thrown together with no mothers to care for them and a father who could not be considered a parent, Iris and Eva become one another's family. Iris wants to be a movi ...Show more
White Houses by Amy Bloom
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a "sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women" (People)--Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok. Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presiden ...Show more
White Houses by Amy Bloom
22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America, from a master storyteller at the height of her powers. In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter ...Show more
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