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Buildings Repair and reconstruction Fiction Cathedrals France Fiction France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction Glass manufacture Fiction Hospice care Fiction Hospice nurses Fiction Post-traumatic stress disorder Patients Fiction Veterans Fiction World War, 1939-1945 France Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France FictionKiernan, Stephen P.
Summary: "Up to the 1970s, most Americans died swiftly: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in accidents. But in the past three decades, medical advances have extended our lives and changed the way we die. Journalist Kiernan reveals the disconnect between how patients want to live the end of life--pain-free, functioning mentally and physically, surrounded by family and friends--and how the medical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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Summary: After her kind mentor is arrested because of his Jewish heritage, a young baker's apprentice in Normandy engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: Deborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing husband, Michael, returns from his third deployment to Iraq haunted by nightmares, anxiety, and rage. She is determined to help him heal, and to restore the tender, loving marriage they once had. At the same time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2015
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Summary: On June 5, 1944, as dawn rises over a small town on the Normandy coast of France, Emmanuelle is making the bread that has sustained her fellow villagers in the dark days since the Germans invaded her country.Only twenty-two, Emma learned to bake at the side of a master, Ezra Kuchen, the village baker since before she was born. Apprenticed to Ezra at thirteen, Emma watched with shame and anger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: One month after the end of World War II, amid the jubilation in the streets of France, there are throngs of people stunned by the recovery work ahead. Every bridge, road, and rail line, every church and school and hospital, has been destroyed. Disparate factions--from Communists, to Resistance fighters, to federalists, to those who supported appeasement of the Nazis--must somehow unite and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023