| International Standard Book Number |
9798228497474
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668142615
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668142619
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.54
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| Personal Name |
Irving, John, 1942- author.
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| Title Statement |
Queen Esther : a novel / John Irving.
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| Edition Statement |
Unabridged.
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| Imprint |
[New York] : Simon & Schuster, [2025]
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| Physical Description |
11 audio discs (13 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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| Playing Time |
130000.
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| General Note |
Compact disc.
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| General Note |
Title from web page.
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Read by Ari Fliakos.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it won't be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; in fact, he won't find any family who'll adopt her. When Esther is fourteen, soon to be a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic New England family with a history of providing foster care for unadopted orphans. The Winslows aren't Jewish, but they despise anti-Semitism. Esther's gratitude for the Winslows is unending; even as she retraces her roots back to Vienna, she never stops loving and protecting the Winslows.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Identity (Psychology) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Physicians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Literary.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Adopted children Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Adoptive parents Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jewish women Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jewish children Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Antisemitism Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Orphanages Maine Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Political.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / General.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jewish orphans Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Israel Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Vienna (Austria) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New Hampshire Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Portland (Me.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Compact discs.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Fliakos, Ari, narrator.
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