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(0)Meg Waite Clayton
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"In 1936, the Nazis are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Zofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered...
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Wealthy, beautiful Naneé was born with a spirit of adventure that transcends her Midwestern roots. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, Nanée joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Naneé uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Inspired by the real life Chicago heiress Mary Jayne Gold, who worked with American journalist Varian Fry...
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Five young California homemakers forge a bond of friendship that sustains them through the turbulent 1960s and beyond. Meeting weekly, the Wednesday Sisters share a love of writing, literary classics, and the Miss America Pageant--in a moving testament to the mysterious link between friends.
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En 1936, para el quinceañero Stephan Neuman los nazis no son más que unos brutos algo más que ruidosos. Stephan forma parte de una conocida familia judía de Viena y es un incipiente dramaturgo cuyos escenarios son las calles de la capital austriaca e incluso sus intrincadas alcantarillas. Su mejor amiga es Zofie-Helene, una chica cristiana cuya madre es la editora de un periódico antinazi. Pero la inocencia libre de preocupaciones de ambos adolescentes...
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Wednesday novels volume 2
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English
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Hope Tantry arrives at cottage in England's pastoral Lake District where her mother, Ally, spent the last years of her life. Ally - one of a group of women who called themselves the Wednesday Sisters - had used the cottage while she worked on her unpublished biography of Beatrix Potter. Traveling with Hope are friends Anna Page and Julie, first introduced in The Wednesday Sisters, now grown women grappling with issues of a different era. Tucked away...
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La autora de El último tren a la libertad, best seller de The New York Times, visita de nuevo los oscuros primeros días de la ocupación alemana en Francia en esta evocadora novela que gira en torno a una joven heredera norteamericana que ayuda a artistas perseguidos por los nazis a escapar de una Europa rota por la guerra.
Nanée, bella y adinerada, nació con espíritu aventurero. Para ella, aprender a volar equivale a libertad. Cuando los tanques...
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Thirty years ago, Laney, Mia, Betts, and Ginger were roommates and best friends in law school. Collectively nicknamed the Ms. Bradwells by a professor their relationship has weathered marriage, divorce, children, and death, but when Betts's Supreme Court nomination is threatened by questions about the death of a young man at a party they attended decades ago, the women retreat to the scene of the crime--Ginger's mother's summer house--to untangle...
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Center Point Large Print
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2019.
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Meg Waite Clayton comes a riveting novel based on one of the most volatile and intoxicating real-life love affairs of the twentieth century between journalist Martha Gellhorn and literary titan Ernest Hemingway"--
