Pam Jenoff
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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 in the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous tunnels beneath the city. One day she sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. 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. Ella...
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Eighteen-year-old twins Helena and Ruth are raising their three younger siblings in Nazi-occupied Poland. When Helena discovers an American paratrooper straded outside their small mountain village, she risks the safety of herself and her family and hides him, a Jew. Together they make plans for the family to flee Poland.
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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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"Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiance was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family 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"--
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After surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nedermann, starting a new life in London with her husband, a British diplomat, once again becomes trapped in a web of intrigue and betrayal when Communists infiltrate British Intelligence and the traitor is linked to her past.
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"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 by her father, a German diplomat, Margot Rosenthal initially resents being trapped in the congested French capital, where she is still looked upon as the enemy. But as she contemplates returning to Berlin and a...
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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 Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the resistance smuggles...
11) A hidden affair
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Atria Books
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2010
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1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
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What kind of man could fake his own death and then, for more than a decade, let his loved ones suffer? After such a betrayal, what woman would want him back? Meet erstwhile Cambridge University sweethearts Jared Short and Jordan Weiss, whose star-crossed odyssey continues in Jenoff's intriguing sequel to Almost Home. Following Jordan's discovery of Jared's apparent survival--and her own narrow escape from enemies still out to silence him--the plucky...
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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...
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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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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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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...
18) 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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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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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...