YVONNE FAIR TESSLER - Braille Institute of America

GOULD, LOIS
La Presidenta
RC 15872
Based on the legend of the Perons. Exiled Montero and his bride return
to his Latin American country, hoping to regain the power he lost with
the death of his first wife, La Senora. Instead, they are confronted with
a dangerous cult which has mushroomed from the people's fanatical
love for the mythical La Senora.
GREENE, GRAHAM, 1904-
The Human Factor
RC 11451
When the British espionage headquarters develops a leak, the prime
suspects are a London-based expert on South Africa, who has a black
wife, and his flamboyant junior colleague. The "firm" eliminates the
obvious choice, but gets the wrong man.
GROSS, JOEL
The Books of Rachel
RC 15139
Traces the fortunes of a diamond-merchant family, the ancient Jewish
Cuhenos, beginning in 1484 during the Spanish Inquisition. In each
branch of the family, a huge, flawless diamond becomes the birthright
of the Rachel born after her namesake has died. The last Rachel in the
novel is seen marrying in New York in 1979.
Maura's Dream
RC 17705
Set at the turn of the century, this saga focuses on Maura, a beautiful
Irish farm girl, whose only skill is making illegal whisky in her father's
County Kerry still. Dreaming of escape, she accepts a marriage
proposal that includes a passage to the States. Her young husband dies
on shipboard and she undergoes enslavement in a brothel in lower
Manhattan finally escaping to freedom.
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