Saab, Gabriella

Summary: Decades after defying her aristocratic family to join the Russian revolution, Svetlana Petrova opens her home to her eighteen-year-old granddaughter, Mila, who falls under the spell of the resistance when their remote village is overrun by Nazi invaders.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023

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Saab, Gabriella

Summary: Russia 1917: Beautiful, educated Svetlana Petrova defied her stifling aristocratic family to join a revolution promising freedom. Now, released after years of imprisonment, she discovers her socialist party vying for power against the dictatorial Bolsheviks and her beloved uncle, a champion of her cause, was murdered by a mysterious assassin named Orlova. Her signature? Blinding her victims...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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Abriel, Anita

Summary: "Paris 1943, Lana Antanov is on her way to see her husband, Frederic with news that she is pregnant. As she arrives at the convent where Frederic teaches piano, she watches in horror as Gestapo officers execute Frederic for hiding a Jewish girl in the piano. Lana is overcome with grief. That evening, she loses the baby. A few months later, Lana is approached by a member of the resistance to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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Saab, Gabriella

Summary: Vowing to avenge the murder of her family, Maria, a young Polish resistance worker imprisoned in Auschwitz, plays chess in exchange for her life, and, in doing so, challenges the man who destroyed her family to one last game that will end in either failure or justice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Abriel, Anita

Summary: "It is 1946 when Vera Frankel and her best friend Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they escaped from a train headed for Auschwitz and were hidden by farmers until the end of the war while the rest of their families perished. Now, they want to start new lives abroad, and armed with a letter of recommendation from an American general, Vera finds work at the United States embassy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Miller, Sarah Elizabeth

Summary: In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Vásquez, Juan Gabriel

Summary: "The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as his films are on exhibit, Sergio recalls the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022

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Vásquez, Juan Gabriel

Summary: A man who was arrested for attempting to steal a suit belonging to a murdered politician from a Columbian museum sets of a series of public fixations on conspiracy theories, assassinations, and the country's historical secrets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018

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García Márquez, Gabriel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995

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Kay, Guy Gavriel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ROC 2004

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Ryan, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)

Summary: As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir in the absence of men and instead carry on singing.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Ewen, Pamela Binnings

Summary: The most beautiful, sought-after woman in Belle Epoque Paris, Emilienne sees her youth and beauty fade. As clouds of war begin darkening Europe, Emilienne's young friend, Coco Chanel, has other ideas of how to survive in a man's world. Strong ideas. Now, as Emilienne fights to survive, Coco's star rises.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023

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