Ursula Hegi
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English
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Trudi Montag is a Zwerg-a dwarf-short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share-from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he's a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional...
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2020.
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English
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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...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Protecting her beloved students from the devastating world outside of their 1934 Berlin classroom, Thekla Köppen sacrifices some of her personal freedoms to retain her teaching position until activities within Hitler's early regime test her moral courage.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The bestselling and acclaimed author of Stones from the River and The Vision of Emma Blau renews her reputation as an extraordinary writer of short stories in this first collection in more than a decade. With her passion for storytelling and her elegant prose, Ursula Hegi balances us on that magical border where laughter and sorrow become one. She knows the language of pleasure, the language of grace, the language of grief.
A writer of great insight...
7) Sacred time
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English
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When his aunt and cousins move into his 1950s Bronx home after his uncle goes to jail again, young Anthony Amedeo struggles with sharing a room with his twin female cousins, resulting in an event that irrevocably changes the family.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Ursula Hegi uses the art of the interview to see deeply into the personal histories of fifteen women and men as they confront at last the terrible and pervasive silence that made any mention of the Holocaust taboo in their homes and schools while they were growing up. For many of them this is the first time they've spoken of these memories and feelings. They share their pain with us, their guilt, their anger, and their compassion as they take us into...
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Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Hanna Malter is a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, a small German town. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Hegi wrote this book first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.--From publisher...
10) Salt dancers
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Julia, an unmarried woman who becomes pregnant at 41, decides to have the baby and in preparation travels to Spokane to visit her father whom she rejected for 23 years. Julia wants to make peace with him before starting her own family and the novel follows the peace process.
11) Intrusions
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Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
A novel about two women--one the main character, one the author of the book, who is very much like the main character she is writing about.
12) Trudi & Pia
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A dwarf girl goes to the circus where she meets another dwarf and realizes that she is not alone.