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Threads and flames

Esther M. Friesner

2010
2010
first published
  • 2010Viking · ENGISBN 9780670012459

After recovering from typhus, thirteen-year-old Raisa leaves her Polish shtetl for America to join her older sister, and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.

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