Train To Trieste

Train To TriesteIn the summer of 1977, seventeen year old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a green eyed boy who lives in Brasov, the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. But under the Ceausescu dictatorship, paranoia infects everyone; soon Mona begins to suspect that Mihai is part of the secret police. As food shortages worsen and her loved ones begin to disappear, Mona realizes that she too must leave. Over the next twenty years, she struggles

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Helen throws herself into country life and soon makes a new set of eccentric friends

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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry follows a feisty African-American girl - Cassie Logan - as she grows up in Mississippi during the Great Depression and learns the shocking realities of racism

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After spending 27 years in prison