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1) Moloka'i
Author
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family's 1890s Honolulu home when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her to reenter the world.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson's Red at The Bone, Netflix's Atypical, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Victor Chin's life is turned upside down at the tender age of 15. Diagnosed with...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Paul Brand shares stories from throughout his fifty-year career as a healer, which included a period working in a colony for leprosy patients in India, and discusses how his experiences have led him to look at pain as a gift from God.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled--hidden away with their "shameful" disease. Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the Mississippi River curls around an old plantation thick with trees, with a stately white manor house at its heart. Locals knew it as Carville--the site of the only leprosarium in the continental United States from 1894 until 1999, where generations...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The glamorous world of a silent film star’s wife abruptly crumbles when she’s forcibly quarantined at the Carville Lepers Home in this page-turning story of courage, resilience, and reinvention set in 1920s Louisiana and Los Angeles. Based on little-known history, this timely book will strike a chord with readers of Fiona Davis, Tracey Lange, and Marie Benedict. * A 2023 Silicon Valley Reads Selection * * Reader's Digest Editor's Choice * For...
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness--even facing the Angel of Death himself. Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away. So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the Phillipine government takes over Culion, an island for people with leprosy, Ami is put in an orphanage on another island, where she finds a friend willing to help her return before her mother dies.
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