Central Kansas Library System

The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

"For fans of bestselling WWII fiction comes a powerful novel from Lynn Austin about three women whose lives are instantly changed when the Nazis invade the neutral Netherlands, forcing each into a complicated dance of choice and consequence. Lena is a wife and mother who farms alongside her husband in the tranquil countryside. Her faith has always been her compass, but can she remain steadfast when the questions grow increasingly complex and the answers...

Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, diary excerpts, and interviews, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world.

In 1665, seventeen-year-old Griet becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. Johannes and Griet must hide their inspiration of each other from his volatile wife Catharina, which becomes difficult when the wealthy and troublemaking Master van Ruijven commissions Vermeer to paint Griet alone.

Determined to become a painter, Francesca Visser's dream is shattered when her father--a struggling artist--arranges a marriage between her and Ludolf Van Deventer, a wealthy shipbroker, in order to pay back a debt.