Ursula Hegi

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1) Stones from the river

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Hegi, Ursula

Series

Burgdorf cycle volume Book 2

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

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Trudi Montag is a Zwerg - a dwarf - short, undesirable, different, the plucky but sometimes defeated voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share.

2) Children and fire

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Protecting her beloved students from the devastating world outside of their 1934 Berlin classroom, Thekla Koppen sacrifices some of her personal freedoms to retain her teaching position until activities within Hitler's early regime test her moral courage.

3) The vision of Emma Blau

Author

Hegi, Ursula

Series

Burgdorf cycle volume Book 3

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

c2000

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A novel of immigration and love follows a German man who flees to the U.S. at the start of the century and makes a life for himself, spawning four generations of descendants.

4) Sacred Time: A Novel

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Hegi, Ursula

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The bestselling author of Stones From the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953, Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parent's Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium -- and in his imagination, where he longs for a stencil kit to decorate the windows like all the other kids on his street. Instead,...

5) The patron saint of pregnant girls

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Hegi, Ursula

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Books, eAudiobook, eBook

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"From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi, a new novel about three mothers, set on the shores of the Nordsee, perfect for fans of Water for Elephants and The Light Between Oceans. In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus has come to the island Nordstrand in Germany. Big-bellied girls rush from St. Margaret's Home for Pregnant Girls, thrilled to see the parade and the show, followed by the Sisters who care for them. The Old Women and Men, competing...