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2) Moloka'i
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy settlement on the island of Molokaʻi. Here her life is supposed to end - but instead she discovers it is only just beginning"--Publisher's description....
Author
Series
Corbin series volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
This vibrant and heartrending historical series from #1 New York Times bestseller Linda Lael Miller follows a female doctor in 1880s Pacific Northwest as she searches for success and romance.
In 1886, lovely Banner O'Brien overcame every obstacle and won her coveted medical diploma. Determined to leave her past—and the nightmares—behind, she escapes Oregon to accept a job with Dr. Adam Corbin in the Washington Territory.
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In 1886, lovely Banner O'Brien overcame every obstacle and won her coveted medical diploma. Determined to leave her past—and the nightmares—behind, she escapes Oregon to accept a job with Dr. Adam Corbin in the Washington Territory.
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6) The Colony
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
vi, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
After she discovers the skeleton of a young girl in the neighborhood of a childhood best friend who had gone missing thirty years earlier, Tempe Brennan investigates suspicions that her friend was the victim.
10) The leper
Author
Publisher
North Star Press of St. Cloud
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
11) Yomeddine
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Beshay, a man cured of leprosy, has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife, he finally decides to go in search of his roots. With his meager possessions strapped to a donkey cart, he set out. Quickly joined by Obama, the Nubian orphan he has taken under his wing, Beshay will cross Egypt and confront the world with all its sorrows, all its hardships and its moments of grace....
Series
Publisher
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (22 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages ; 18 cm).
Language
Persian
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Description
This film about the leprosy colony in Tabriz, Iran is a compassionate portrait of forgotten people. Straightforward yet sympathetic, the film affords dignity to its subjects, particularly through Farrokhzad's striking poem read by the poet herself. The House Is Black has heavily influenced the modern Iranian cinema of such great filmmakers as Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who called it "the best Iranian film." It provides, in the film's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled--hidden away with their "shameful" disease. Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the Mississippi River curls around an old plantation thick with trees, with a stately white manor house at its heart. Locals knew it as Carville--the site of the only leprosarium in the continental United States from 1894 until 1999, where generations...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
England, 1320. Sir Baldwin Furnshill -- a former Knight Templar and Keeper of the King's Peace -- and his partner Simon Puttock investigate the killing of a local gold merchant and an assault on his daughter, racing against time to find the culprit before an angry local populace seeks revenge on the outcast lepers of St. Lawrences hospital.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts." —John Grisham
"Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." —John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The emotional, incredible true story of Neil White, a man who discovers the secret to happiness, leading a fulfilling life,
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VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (709 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 pages : illustrations ; 14 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Santo is a Mexican national hero and a legend around the world! This special collection contains many of his most popular films."--Container.
Santo in the wax museum: El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!
Santo in the...
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