The Plague Tales

The Plague TalesBy: Ann Benson Series: The Plague Tales Part historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense.Entertainment Weekly It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacteriumthe invisible

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Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family

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So she is intrigued but skeptical of the professor’s claims that the feud has been kept alive by the grave injustices the Buchanans have perpetrated over the centuries

to a career in Hollywood and friendships with everyone from Judy Garland and Billy Wilder to Thomas Mann and Mary McCarthy