Pam Jenoff
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In 1942 in Belgium, young Micheline leads the Sapphire Line, an underground network that helps downed British airmen escape from occupied Europe. Hannah, a member of the Resistance, arrives in Belgium after narrowly escaping the Gestapo in Berlin and finds refuge with her cousin Lily. While Hannah is grateful to Lily, every day in Belgium increases her risk of arrest. Meanwhile, Lily attempts to keep life as normal as possible for the sake of her...
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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, Manhattan. One 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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"1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Jewish Ghetto in Kraków, 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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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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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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Defending the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II crimes, fiercely independent attorneys Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington slowly fall for one another, while their client refuses to help in his own defense and claims that proof of his innocence lies within an intricate clock.
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In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emmas 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...
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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...
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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.
11) A hidden affair
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Ten years ago, U.S. State Department intelligence officer Jordan Weiss’s life was turned upside down when she was told her college boyfriend, Jared, drowned in the River Cam. In a shocking discovery, though, she realizes that things weren’t as they seemed and that she had been lied to and betrayed by those closest to her. Reeling from the shock— and the knowledge that Jared is still alive—Jordan resigns her State Department post and sets off...
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1942. Sadie Gault tem dezoito anos e vive com os pais entre os horrores do gueto de Cracóvia, em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial. No dia em que os nazis destroem o gueto, Sadie, o seu pai e a sua mãe grávida veem-se obrigados a refugiar-se nos perigosos túneis do esgoto. Um dia, ao espreitar por uma grelha, Sadie vê uma rapariga da sua idade a comprar flores.
Ella Stepanek é uma abastada rapariga polaca cuja vida relativamente acomodada se deve...
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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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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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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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As raparigas desaparecidas de Paris é uma história emotiva de amizade e traição durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, inspirada em factos reais, da autora best seller internacional Pam Jenoff.
1940: Com o mundo em guerra, Eleanor Trigg lidera um grupo misterioso de agentes secretas femininas em Londres. Doze destas mulheres são enviadas para ajudar a Resistência francesa. Nunca regressaram a casa.
1946: Ao passar pela Estação Central, em Nova...
17) THE OTHER GIRL
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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 are especially cold, the nights unexpectedly lonely. The discovery of a girl hiding in the barn changes everything-Hannah...
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Emma Bau sólo llevaba casada tres semanas cuando los tanques nazis entraron en su Polonia natal.
Unos días después, su marido se vio obligado a desaparecer, y ella acabó prisionera en el gueto judío de Cracovia, hasta que la resistencia la sacó de allí. Entonces, Emma adoptó una falsa identidad y renunció a su religión.
La precaria situación de Emma no hizo más que empeorar cuando conoció al comandante Richwalder, un alto oficial nazi...
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Una poderosa novela de amistad dentro de un circo ambulante durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, El vagón de los huérfanos presenta a dos mujeres extraordinarias y sus historias desgarradoras de sacrificio y supervivencia.Noa, de dieciséis años, ha sido expulsada en desgracia después de quedar embarazada de un soldado nazi y verse forzada a renunciar a su bebé. Vive en los altos de una pequeña estación del ferrocarril, que limpia para ganarse...