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The Shell Seekers
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Rosamunde Pilcher |
The Shell Seekers is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The Shell Seekers is filled with real people--mothers… |
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Walter's purple heart
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Catherine Ryan Hyde |
"Michael Steeb is an aimless twenty-one-year-old pot farmer living a day-to-day existence in an unfinished farmhouse in central California in the 1980s. He has no real plans or interests - until the … |
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What world is left
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Monique Polak |
Anneke, a Dutch Jewish teenager, is sent with her family to Theresienstadt, a "model" concentration camp, where she confronts great evil and learns to do what it takes to survive. |
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Souin Gyokusai seyo!
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Shigeru Mizuki |
Souin Gyokusai seyo! is a "semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War II." Mizuki drew from his own experiences as a soldier in tha… |
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Solar dance
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Modris Eksteins |
A consideration of how the growth in popularity of Vincent van Gogh's paintings and the trial of Otto Wacker for forgery, resulted in an examination of truth and authenticity during and after the Sec… |
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A good place to hide
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Peter Grose |
This book is the untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II. Nobody asked questions, nobody dema… |
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Branded by the Pink Triangle
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Ken Setterington |
A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison se… |
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Almost a great escape
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Tyler Trafford |
Novelist Tyler Trafford reconstructs the story of his mother's life--from her youth as a Montreal debutante to her final days as a casualty of an unhappy marriage--as he uncovers the mystery of her r… |
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The good shepherd
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C. S. Forester |
The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, t… |
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Freedom from fear
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David M. Kennedy |
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prev… |
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The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941
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James Holland |
" In The Rise of Germany, the first of a major new three-part history of World War II in the West, he weaves together the experiences of dozens of individuals, from civilians and infantrymen, to line… |
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World War II Day by Day
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Antony Shaw |
192 pages : 29 cm |
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Dispatches from the front
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Halton, David (News correspondent) |
A biography of Canadian foreign and war correspondent, Matthew Halton, written by his son, David Halton, drawn from archival research and interviews. |
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Un amour volé
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Anita Shreve |
Roman d'amour. Roman historique. |
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L'angoisse du poisson rouge
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Mélissa Verreault |
Manue aime se faire croire que son existence, ? digne d'un scňario hollywoodien ?, est catastrophique. Fabio, jeune Italien immigrant, ne se sent chez lui nulle part, car ? lorsqu'on a choisi de quit… |
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Le grand incendie
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Shirley Hazzard |
Roman psychologique (intime). Roman historique. |
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Lever de rideau sur Terezin
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Christophe Lambert |
Depuis les premières lois anti-Juifs du régime de Vichy, le dramaturge à succès Victor Steiner se terre dans un petit appartement parisien. Mais un soir, la passion du théâtre est la plus forte : il … |
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Irena Sendlerowa
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Isabelle Wlodarczyk |
Cette collection rend hommage à "ceux qui ont reçu le titre de "Juste parmi les Nations" parce qu'ils ont, au péril de leur vie, sauvé des Juifs menacés d'extermination pendant la Seconde Guerre mond… |
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Les jours sombres
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Fey Von Hassell |
L'histoire de cette Allemande, fille d'un ambassadeur en Italie, militant anti-naziste exécuté pour avoir comploté l'assassinat d'Hitler. A la mort de celui-ci, elle fut arrêtée, déportée au camp de … |
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Adam et Thomas
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Aharon Appelfeld |
La maman d'Adam le conduit dans la forêt en lui promettant de revenir le chercher le soir. Pendant la journée, le jeune garçon rencontre Thomas, lui aussi caché là par sa mère, tandis que les rafles … |
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