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The ugly duchess
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Lion Feuchtwanger the devil in France |
Based on the life of Margarete of the Tyrol. |
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A family secret
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Eric Heuvel |
While searching his Dutch grandmother's attic for yard sale items, Jeroen finds a scrapbook which leads Gran to tell of her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, when her fa… |
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The Gypsy Moon (The House of Winslow #35)
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Gilbert Morris |
Dr. Gabrielle Winslow joins the Underground in Holland to help smuggle Jews out of the country. She teams up with an OSS agent to rescue her uncle in Berlin. Will they succeed in bringing him out of … |
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Hans Brinker, or The silver skates
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Mary Mapes Dodge |
A Dutch boy and girl seek two goals -- aiding their father and winning a skating competition. |
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By England's Aid; or, The Freeing of the Netherlands
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G. A. Henty |
In my preface to By Pike and Dyke I promised in a future story to deal with the closing events of the War of Independence in Holland. The period over which that war extended was so long, and the inci… |
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The stone cold age
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Jeffrey Brown |
Neanderthal siblings Lucy and Andy are back to their paleo pranks. This time, they have to put up with more than just each other the cave is feeling awfully cramped since the humans moved in. They re… |
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The Kaiser's last kiss
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Alan Judd |
"Soon to be a movie starring Christopher Plummer, Lily James, and Jai Courtney, this "wonderfully satisfying, sophisticated novel" (Daily Telegraph) follows the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, the young Nazi … |
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Girl with a pearl earring
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Tracy Chevalier |
This book "centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1660s. The appointment of the quiet, perceptive heroine of the novel, the servant Griet, gradually throws the household into turmo… |
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Death on the canal
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Anja de Jager |
Drinking outside a canalside bar on a perfect summer's evening, Lotte is witness to the fatal stabbing of Piotr Mazur, a Polish security guard working in one of the city's department stores. And as L… |
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The night ferry
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Michael Robotham |
Alisha Barba's dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from… |
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Indian Games
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Andrew McFarland Davis |
From the book:"There are," says Father Brebeuf in his account of what was worthy of note among the Hurons in 1636, [Footnote: Relations des Jesuites, Quebec, 1858, p. 113.] "three kinds of games part… |
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The sea beggar's son
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F. N. Monjo |
Relates in verse the exploits of the Dutch hero, Piet Heyn, whose capture of Spanish ships carrying valuable cargo was instrumental in Holland's overthrow of Spanish rule in the seventeenth century. |
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A Gem of a Girl
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Betty Neels |
Gemma Prentice wasn't the most beautiful girl in the world; indeed, if anyone had described her as plain no one would have contradicted them! But she was a wonderful nurse, kind and conscientious to … |
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A Good Wife
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Betty Neels |
Ivo van Doelen knows what he wants -- he simply has to allow Serena Lightfoot time to come to the same conclusion! Then all he has to do is persuade Serena to accept his convenient proposal of marria… |
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The Moon for Lavinia
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Betty Neels |
AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE...
A nursing job in Holland was the only way Lavinia Hawkins could ensure a home and security for herself and her young sister, Peta. Yet within weeks of arriving she … |
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The wedding
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Elizabeth M. Rees |
In 1433, fourteen-year-old Giovanna Cenami falls in love with a mysterious stranger employed by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, but when she defies her father, refuses to must marry a wealthy family fr… |
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Hana in the time of the tulips
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Deborah Noyes |
A little girl seeks to regain her father's attention during the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland. |
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Boven is het stil
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Gerbrand Bakker |
When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return from university life to take over his brother's role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his … |
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Ramage and the Rebels
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Dudley Pope |
Setting off on a presumably predictable sweep for freebooters in the waters off Jamaica, Ramage and the crew of the Calypso stumble upon a scene of carnage: A sinking British ship, her crew and passe… |
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Righteous Smuggler
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Debbie Spring |
During World War II, when Hendrik, the young son of a fisherman in Amsterdam, notices his Jewish friends being barred from school and ostracized by their other classmates, he is determined to stand b… |
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