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Zijl, Annejet van der

Summary: Born to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, Allene Tew was beautiful, impetuous, and frustrated by the confines of her small hometown. At eighteen, she met Tod Hostetter at a local dance, having no idea that the mercurial charmer she would impulsively wed was heir to one of the wealthiest families in America. But when he died twelve years later, Allene packed her bags for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEW, ALLENE ZIJ

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Tew

Zijl, Annejet van der

Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...

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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZIJL ZIJ

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