Meg Waite Clayton
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Wealthy, beautiful Nane�e was born with a spirit of adventure that transcends her Midwestern roots. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, Nan�ee joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Nane�e uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Inspired by the real life Chicago heiress Mary Jayne Gold, who worked with American journalist Varian...
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"In 1936, the Nazis are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered...
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En 1936, para el quinceañero Stephan Neuman los nazis no son más que unos brutos algo más que ruidosos. Stephan forma parte de una conocida familia judía de Viena y es un incipiente dramaturgo cuyos escenarios son las calles de la capital austriaca e incluso sus intrincadas alcantarillas. Su mejor amiga es Zofie-Helene, una chica cristiana cuya madre es la editora de un periódico antinazi. Pero la inocencia libre de preocupaciones de ambos adolescentes...
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Wednesday novels volume 2
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Ally, one of a close-knit group of women who called themselves the Wednesday Sisters, spent her final years in an English cottage working on a biography of Beatrix Potter. Now her daughter, Hope, and other grown daughters of the "Wednesday Sisters" travel to England to sort through Ally's personal effects. The journey leads them into family secrets and forces them to confront their own personal struggles.
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Wednesday novels volume 1
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Five young California homemakers forge a bond of friendship that sustains them through the turbulent 1960s and beyond. Meeting weekly, the Wednesday Sisters share a love of writing, literary classics, and the Miss America Pageant--in a moving testament to the mysterious link between friends.
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La autora de El último tren a la libertad, best seller de The New York Times, visita de nuevo los oscuros primeros días de la ocupación alemana en Francia en esta evocadora novela que gira en torno a una joven heredera norteamericana que ayuda a artistas perseguidos por los nazis a escapar de una Europa rota por la guerra.
Nanée, bella y adinerada, nació con espíritu aventurero. Para ella, aprender a volar equivale a libertad. Cuando los tanques...
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Mia, Laney, Betts and Ginger, best friends since law school, have reunited for a long weekend as Betts waits for Senate confirmation of her appointment to the Supreme Court. Nicknamed 'the Ms. Bradwells' during their first class at law school in 1979, the four have supported one another through life's challenges. But when the Senate hearings uncover a deeply buried skeleton in the friends' collective closet, they find themselves reliving a much darker...