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(0)Meg Waite Clayton
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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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"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 Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered...
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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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Wednesday novels volume 2
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Ally, one of a close-knit group of women who called themselves the Wednesday Sisters, spent her final years in an English cottage working on a biography of Beatrix Potter. Now her daughter, Hope, and other grown daughters of the "Wednesday Sisters" travel to England to sort through Ally's personal effects. The journey leads them into family secrets and forces them to confront their own personal struggles.
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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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Headstrong, accomplished journalist Martha Gellhorn is confident with words but less so with men when she meets disheveled literary titan Ernest Hemingway in a dive bar. Their friendship--forged over writing, talk, and family dinners--flourishes into something undeniable in Madrid while they're covering the Spanish Civil War.
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Azbuka
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2020.
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"1936 god. Vena. Pi︠a︡tnadt︠s︡atiletniĭ Shtefan i ego podruga Zofi veselo provodi︠a︡t vremi︠a︡ s druzʹi︠a︡mi: guli︠a︡i︠u︡t po gorodu, khodi︠a︡t v kafe, issledui︠u︡t venskie podzemelʹi︠a︡. No vse rezko meni︠a︡etsi︠a︡, kogda v 1938 godu Gitler zakhvatyvaet Avstrii︠u︡. Nat︠s︡isty ubivai︠u︡t ott︠s︡a Shtefana, otpravli︠a︡i︠u︡t ego semʹi︠u︡ v getto, a sam Shtefan vynuzhden skryvatʹsi︠a︡,...
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Redwood Press
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[2021]
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"This book is an effort to understand the effects of the experience on children of living through World War II in Europe and United States. It is based exclusively on first-person accounts recorded by people Marilyn Yalom had known closely as adults and after decades-long conversations with them. These friends convey wartime memories from childhood years spent in France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, England, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Holland....
