Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover. When she gives birth to a child, her shame is made public, and in the unforgiving moral atmosphere of colonial Massachusetts, she is made to suffer...
Massachusetts -- Boston
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Auteur:Hawthorne, NathanielSommaire: -
Auteur:Kilmer, NicholasSommaire:The young woman in the hair salon raises her shirt to show a friend a work in progress: a riot of stunning tattoos. From the barber’s chair, Fred Taylor knows that those images—weird insects, beasts, and naked human figures—could only...
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Auteur:Mendel, CharlotteSommaire:The state war raging outside the home of the Al-Fakhoury extended family, who live in a border town buffeted by the turmoil of the Arab Spring, entwines with the familial conflict raging within. The patriarch of the family, Mohammed is...
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Auteur:Kilmer, NicholasSommaire:Stillton Academy on the coast north of Boston is in trouble. The academy’s days are numbered unless extraordinary help arrives. Worse, a Stillton instructor has purportedly disappeared with a female first-year student, daughter of the...
