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Bah! Humbug?

by Lorna Balian, Lecia Balian

Published: 2006-10-01

Hardcover: 32 pages

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Margies bossy older brother, Arthur, believes that Santa Claus is a humbug and he plans to prove it by creating a trap to catch him. But Arthur might be wrong about Santa after all. Lorna Balian's charming story is reissued with full color added by her daughter, Lecia.

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Notes on a Scandal

by Zoe Heller

Published: 2004-03-04

Paperback: 256 pages

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When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship...

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Midnight Pearls

by Debbie Vigui?

Published: 2003-06-01

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Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Aster a strange thing happened. They say the prince married a girl who was not what she appeared and that another girl who saved the kingdom vanished without a trace. Some said it was witchcraft. Some said it was only a legend. For those who knew the tr...

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Nella Last's War

by Suzie Fleming, Richa Broad

Published: 1996

Paperback: 328 pages

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In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the fa...

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The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews

by Peter Duffy

Published: 2004-06-15

Paperback: 336 pages

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In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblingsbeing led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would,of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running orgiving in to despair, these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski -- ...

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Edelweiss Pirates, Operation Einstein

by Mark A. Cooper

Published: 2012-12-07

Paperback: 162 pages

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A group of fun loving rebellious German teens calling themselves the Edelweiss Pirates, witnesses something so deplorably sickening they decide to take action when a six-year old Jewish girl is left orphaned. Torn between patriotism for the country they love and there own rights and freedoms they have...

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Familiar: A Novel

by J. Robert Lennon

Published: 2012-10-02

Paperback: 224 pages

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A haunting, enigmatic novel about a woman who is given a second chance?and isn?t sure whether she really wants itElisa Brown is driving back from her annual, somber visit to her son Silas?s grave when something changes. Actually, everything changes: her body is more voluptuous; she?s weari...

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Madeleine L'engle, Suncatcher

by Carole F. Chase

Published: 1997-02

Paperback: 173 pages

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For half a century, Madeleine L'Engle has been cherished by young and old for her classic young adult books, such as A Wrinkle in Time, A Ring of Endless Light, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet and for her 50-plus adult fiction, fantasy, poetry, and spiritual titles. Now in Celebration of...

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Heroes of the Holocaust

by Lyn Smith

Published: 2012-01-05

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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In March 2010, twenty-seven Britons who took matters into their own hands to protect Jews from the Nazis during one of the darkest times in human history were formally recognised as 'Heroes of the Holocaust' by the British Government. The silver medal, inscribed with the words 'In the Serv...

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Charlotte Gray

by Sebastian Faulks

Published: 2000-07-11

Paperback: 416 pages

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New York Times bestseller by award-winning author of BirdsongCharlotte Gray tells the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own.In blacked-out, wartime London, Charl...