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"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...

Giacomo Casadio era un hombre solitario de temperamento melancólico, dotado de una gran imaginación y con el talento de los visionarios. Tenía pocos amigos y cumplidos los cuarenta y cinco años no había tenido nunca novia. Hasta el día en que en una fiesta de pueblo una gitana se cruzó en su camino. Hacía tiempo que Giacomo se había fijado en ella: era alta, tenía un cuerpo esbelto y una cabellera negra que le llegaba a la cintura. Él siempre...

"Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"-- Provided by publisher. Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard...