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Midnight Pearls
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...
Nella Last's War
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...
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
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 -- ...
Edelweiss Pirates, Operation Einstein
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...
Familiar: A Novel
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...
Madeleine L'engle, Suncatcher
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...
Heroes of the Holocaust
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...
Charlotte Gray
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...
LES MISERABLES (non illustrated)
Published: 2010-11-26
Kindle Edition: 962 pages
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Les Miserables is the story of four people. Bishop Myriel, Jean Valjean, Famine, and Marius Pontmercy, who meet, part, then meet again during the most agitated decades of nineteenth-century France. It also tells the story of the 1832 revolution and describes the unpleasant side of Paris. The novel is...
Mercy
Published: 2007-09-04
Hardcover: 288 pages
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A transcendent and powerful first novel about two women seeking justice and hope in Africa.With a swift, compressed narrative style and compassionate vision that recalls the works of Graham Greene, Lara Santoro offers an indelible portrait of Africa in the throes of an epidemic that will u...
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