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1) Moloka'i
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Seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family's 1890s Honolulu home when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her to reenter the world.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Victor Chin's life is turned upside down at the tender age of 15. Diagnosed with Hansen's disease, otherwise known as leprosy, he's forced to leave the familiar confines of his father's laundry business in the Bronx - the only home he's known since emigrating from China with his older brother - to quarantine alongside patients from all over the country at a federal institution in Carville. At first, Victor is scared not only of the disease, but of...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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Español
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A principios del siglo XX en Colombia, las autoridades crearon un pueblo cercado para recluir a los enfermos de lepra llamado Agua de Dios. Esta situación de apartheid llevó a muchas familias a la separación: padres e hijos que no se verían nunca más, novios cuyo amor no sería más que una promesa, enfermos solitarios que fueron expulsados de la sociedad por estar contagiados de una enfermedad de la que poco se sabía, pero que procuró soliviantar...
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