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Based on the true story of America's only leper colony, the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century. For Mirielle West, a 1920's socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable fall from her intoxicatingly chic life of bootlegged champagne...
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 10
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English
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Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called to Acadia when the body of a young girl is found, and as she investigates the case, Temperance uncovers a startling link between the victim and her childhood friend, Evangeline, who disappeared more than twenty years earlier.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness--even facing the Angel of Death himself. Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away. So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he...
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Series
A.D. chronicles volume 11
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxii, 279 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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Ten lepers from the valley of Mak'ob, having heard rumors of a miracle worker, make the dangerous decision to go in search of the man they believe might be the Messiah of prophecy.
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English
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White tells his emotional, incredible true story of crime and redemption, vanity and spirituality, as he discovers happiness and fulfillment in an unlikely place--imprisonment in The Long Center, the last leper colony in the U.S. Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more...
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Distributed by Vision Video
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This powerful drama is the story of Damien, who in 1872 went to the island of Molokai, where those suffering from leprosy had been exiled and forced to live in miserable surroundings, abandoned from the outside world. Little by little, Damien earned the trust of the lepers, and eventually, his appeals for workers and supplies resonated throughout the world. Even after Damien got sick himself, his energy did not abate, and he carried on working for...
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