Elephant Girl: A Human Story 9781463525439, 1463525435

Written in three distinct voices-child, teen and adult-Jane Devin takes readers on an intimate, imaginative and often ha

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English Pages 476 pages ; 23 cm Year 2011

Elephant Girl: A Human Story
9781463525439, 1463525435

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The life story of Liu Hulan, a young woman spy during the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Par

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A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through

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