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Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men. - Matthew, 5:13 The phrase "salt of the earth" is used in so many ways, and a quick web search yields little co...
***PLEASE DO NOT REBLOG*** bookshelves: cover-love, paper-read, tbr-busting-2015, published-1984, spain, spring-2015, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Read from September 18, 2014 to April 12, 2015 "I feel like a stone in a landslide. If someone or something disturbs it, I'll come tumbling do...
Stone in a Landslide is the second book in the Peirene Press series 'Female Voices' and is set in Spain before and during the Civil War. Conxa is only thirteen when she is sent to a neighbouring mountain village to work for her aunt and uncle. Life is hard in the way it has been for generations; m...
Blurb in English - When the death of a vulnerable young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo causes the normally calm Inspector Salgado to beat someone up, he is moved off the project and sent instead to investigate a teenager's fall to his death in one of Barcelona's uptown areas.As S...
This book shook me to the core. It punched me in the stomach. It is not JUST about The Spanish Civil War, it poignantly has you live through ONE person's experiences. It cannot teach the whole history of the war, but what it does teach is true, honest and the reader is there in that other world. It ...
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