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  Moloka'i

  by Alan Brennert

  This richly imagined novel, set in Hawaii more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place---and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit. 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.... (more)
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  The Island (Charnwood Large Print)

  by Victoria Hislop

  The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939, and her daughters Maria, finding joy in the everyday as she dutifully cares for her... (more)
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  The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: Book 1

  Lord Foul's Bane

  by Stephen R. Donaldson

  The first book in one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever. He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself. Yet he was tempted to believe, to fight for the Land, to be the reincarnation of its greatest hero.... THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER... (more)
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  The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

  by John Tayman

  Beginning in 1866 and continuing for over a century, more than eight thousand people suspected of having leprosy were forcibly exiled to the Hawaiian island of Molokai -- the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history. Torn from their homes and families, these men, women, and children were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway.... (more)
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  The Pearl Diver

  by Jeff Talarigo

  In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan’s Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her past. Her name is erased from her family records, and she is forced to select a new one. To the two thousand patients on the island of... (more)
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  The Samurai's Garden

  by Gail Tsukiyama

  The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the... (more)
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  The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: Book 3

  The Power That Preserves

  by Stephen R. Donaldson

  "A trilogy of remarkable scope and sophistication." LOS ANGELES TIMES Twice before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange other-world where magic worked. Twice before he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Land. Now he was back. This time the Lords of Revelstone were desperate. Without hope, Covenant set out to confront the might... (more)
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  The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Book 3

  White Gold Wielder

  by Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen r. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R.(Author) Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson

  Thomas Covenant knew that despite his failure on the Isle of The One Tree, he had to return to the Land and fight. After a long and arduous journey, fighting all the way, he readies himself for the final showdown with Lord Foul, the Despiser, and begins to understand things he had only just wondered about before....
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  The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever: Book 2

  The Illearth War

  by Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R.(Author) Donaldson, Anon, Stephen R. Donaldson

  The second volume in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. After scant days in his 'real' world, Thomas Covenant found himself summoned once more to the Land. There, forty bitter years had passed while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the land, moved to fulfil his prophecy of doom.
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  The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Book 1

  The Wounded Land

  by Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen Donaldson, Stephen R.(Author) Donaldson, Stephen Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson

  Four thousand years have passed since Covenant first freed the Land from the devastating grip of Lord Foul and his minions. But he is back, and Convenant, armed with his stunning white gold magic, must battle the evil forces and his own despair.... THE SECOND CHRONICLE OF THOMAS COVENANT Book OneTHE WOUNDED LAND Book TwoTHE ONE TREE Book ThreeWHITE GOLD WIELDER
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  The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Book 2

  The One Tree

  by Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen Donaldson, Stephen Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R.(Author) Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen Donaldson, STEPHEN DONALDSON, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson

  Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery begin their search for the One Tree that is to be the salvation of the Land. Only he could find the answer and forge a new Staff of Law--but fate decreed that the journey was to be long, the quest arduous, and quite possibly a failure....
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  Gift of Pain, The

  by Philip Yancey

  Pain is not something that most of us would count as a blessing; however, what it is and why we need it if we're to live life fully is brought to light in this book.
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  The Leper

  by Steve Thayer

  A veteran of World War I, John Severson becomes a school teacher in a tough, working-class St. Paul neighborhood where a high school diploma is a rarity. Severson has dreams, aspirations. But something had happened to him during the war, something awful. And it follows him home and changes every part of his life. John Severson becomes a leper. Instantly he is torn from his dreams, disconnected from his beautiful... (more)
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  In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir

  by Neil White

  Daddy is going to camp. That’s what I told my children. A child psychologist suggested it. “Words like prison and jail conjure up dangerous images for children,” she explained. But it wasn’t camp . . . Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved—nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to family and friends, gave generously to his church, and... (more)
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  A Burnt-Out Case (Twentieth Century Classics)

  by Graham Greene

  Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of an attack of indifference, no longer finding meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he loses himself in work for the lepers. As he helps the lepers, so he approaches a self-cure.
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  The Runes of the Earth (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1)

  by Stephen R. Donaldson

  The triumphant return of the New York Times -bestselling, critically acclaimed fantasy series that has become a modern classic. Since their publication more than two decades ago, the initial six books in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series have sold more than 6 million copies and have been published in ten countries around the world. Now, starting with The Runes of the Earth , Stephen R. Donaldson... (more)
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  The Dark Light (Sunburst Books)

  by Mette Newth

  When it was discovered that thirteen-year-old Tora has leprosy, she is sent from her family's remote mountain farm to the leprosy hospital in the bustling port of Bergen. In early-nineteenth-century Norway, lepers are quarantined in this hospital and no longer considered among the living. But even as her body gradually fails her, Tora's new life blossoms. She finds strength through helping her fellow patients,... (more)
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  Hawaii: A Novel

  by James A. Michener

  In Hawaii , Pulitzer Prize–winning author James Michener weaves the classic saga that brought Hawaii’s epic history vividly alive to the American public on its initial publication in 1959, and continues to mesmerize even today. The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and the land remained untouched by man for countless centuries until, little more... (more)
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  Under Their Skin

  by Dinah Lee Kung

  One autumn, the serene marriage of a Swiss dermatologist to an English WHO leprosy expert is shattered by three intrusions on his Geneva practice: an American violinist marred by a birthmark; a tattooed Japanese gangster; and the doctor's old rival-in-love, now Manhattan's Botox King, Both dark satire and moving love story, this novel confirms the author's far-ranging talents.
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  Healing Water: A Hawaiian Story

  by Joyce Hostetter

  Grade 5 Up—Pia, 13, lives on the islands of Hawaii in the 1860s. He has a loving family and a lifelong older friend whom he sees as fearless, giving him guidance and direction as he grows. When Pia is discovered to have leprosy, he is shipped to Molokai, a settlement set up by the government to isolate those with the disease. He is angry about losing his family and feels betrayed by Kamaka, who abandons him when... (more)