Pam Jenoff
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"1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network. But when a grave mistake...
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From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.1946, ManhattanOne morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs--each...
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Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
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"1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Jewish Ghetto in Krak©đw, Poland, during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her mother are forced to seek refuge in the sewers beneath the city. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches...
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Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the citys decrepit Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the resistance smuggles her out. Taken to Krakow to live with Jacob's Catholic aunt, Krysia, Emma takes on a new identity as Anna Lipowski, a gentile. Emma's already precarious...
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"Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation...Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village...Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much deeper...[as] Helena is forced to contend with the jealousy her...
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Kommandant's girl volume 2
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1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. She meets Paul, an American soldier who gives her hope of a happier future. But their plans to meet in London are dashed when Paul's plane crashes. Devastated and pregnant, Marta marries Simon, a caring British diplomat, and glimpses the joy that home and family can bring. Her happiness is threatened when she learns of a Communist spy in British...
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An ambitious novel that spans decades and continents, The Things We Cherished tells the story of Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington, two fiercely independent attor - neys who find themselves slowly falling for one another while working to defend the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II-era war crimes. The defendant, wealthy financier Roger Dykmans, mysteriously refuses to help in his own defense, revealing only that proof...
11) A hidden affair
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Discovering that Jared, her college boyfriend who supposedly had drowned a decade earlier, is actually alive, Jordan Weiss resigns from her State Department job to track him down, a search that leads her to a mysterious elusive woman and a handsome Israeli man with his own agenda.
12) The Other Girl
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale
One woman's determination to protect a child from the dangers of war will force her to face those lurking closer to home...
Life in rural Poland during WWII brings a new set of challenges to Maria, estranged from her own family and left alone with her in-laws after her husband is sent to the front. For a young, newly pregnant wife, the days...
One woman's determination to protect a child from the dangers of war will force her to face those lurking closer to home...
Life in rural Poland during WWII brings a new set of challenges to Maria, estranged from her own family and left alone with her in-laws after her husband is sent to the front. For a young, newly pregnant wife, the days...
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Jordan Weiss volume Book 1
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A young woman intelligence officer struggles to confront her haunting past while tackling a dangerous assignment of global proportions with origins tracing back to World War II.
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De la autora best seller de El vagón de los huérfanos llega una nueva novela basada en hechos reales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Las chicas perdidas de París es una emotiva historia de amistad y traición durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, inspirada en hechos reales, de la autora best seller internacional Pam Jenoff.
1940: Con el mundo en guerra, Eleanor Trigg lidera un misterioso grupo de agentes secretas femeninas en Londres. Doce de estas mujeres...
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Una poderosa novela sobre la amistad ambientada en un circo ambulante durante la Segunda Guerra mundial. El vagón de los huérfanos nos presenta a dos mujeres extraordinarias y sus desgarradoras historias de sacrificio y supervivencia.
Noa, de dieciséis años, es rechazada cuando se queda embarazada de un soldado nazi y se ve obligada a renunciar a su bebé. Vive encima de una pequeña estación de tren, que limpia para ganarse la manutención......
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Don't miss these three remarkable novels of sacrifice, survival and the unimaginable choices women had to make in a time of war, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale.
THE AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER.
Paris, 1919. The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly. Brought to the peace conference...
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1942.
Sadie Gault tiene dieciocho años y vive con sus padres los horrores del día a día en el gueto de Cracovia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cuando los nazis liquidan el gueto, Sadie y su madre embarazada se ven obligadas a buscar refugio en las peligrosas cloacas que circulan por debajo de la ciudad. Un día, Sadie mira hacia arriba a través de la rejilla de una alcantarilla y ve a una chica más o menos de su edad comprando flores.
Ella...
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Die berührende Geschichte einer Freundschaft und lebensgefährlichen Rettung
Krakau, 1942: Als die Nazis im jüdischen Ghetto eine Razzia durchführen, bleibt Sadie und ihrer Familie nur die Flucht in die Kanalisation. In der Finsternis unterhalb der Stadt sehnt sich Sadie nach Licht und den glücklichen Tagen ihrer Kindheit. Auf einem ihrer Streifzüge in den Tunneln schaut sie durch ein Gitter hinauf nach draußen und entdeckt ein Mädchen, das...
19) Istorii͡a siroty
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Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.
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Four exceptional novels together in one box set!
The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe
For five women, their monthly meeting is a place of sanctuary and community. These women from different walks of life are each embracing the challenge of change in their own circumstances. And as they share their hopes and fears and triumphs, they will hold fast to the true magic of the book club-friendship.
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
In Poland...