Kristy Cambron
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Language
English
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"Based on true accounts of how Parisiennes resisted the Nazi occupation in World War II--from fashion houses to the city streets--comes a story of two courageous women who risked everything to fight an evil they couldn't abide. Paris, 1939. Maison Chanel has closed, thrusting haute couture dressmaker Lila de Laurent out of the world of high fashion as Nazi soldiers invade the streets and the City of Lights slips into darkness. Lila's life is now a...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A tenant farmer's son had no business daring to dream of a future with an earl's daughter, but that couldn't keep Amos Darby from his secret friendship with Charlotte Terrington...until the Great War sobered youthful dreams. His return home comes with the fulfillment of opening a bookshop. When the future Earl of Harcourt chose Charlotte to be his wife, she knew she was destined for a loveless match. Twenty-five years later, Charlotte remains a war...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A prima ballerina. Two American medics. And a young Jewish girl with no name... At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events. Rome, 1943. With the fall of Italy's Fascist government and the Nazi regime occupying the streets of Rome, British ballerina Julia Bradbury is stranded and forced to take refuge at a hospital on Tiber Island....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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An ounce of courage. A split-second leap of faith. Together, they propel two young women to chase a new life--one that's reimagined from what they might have become. In turn-of-the-century America, a young girl dreams of a world that stretches beyond the confines of a quiet life on the family farm. With little more than her wit and a cigar box of treasures to call her own, Mable steps away from all she knows, seeking the limitless marvels of the Chicago...
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Language
English
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When Laine Forrester travels to France to attend her longtime friend's vineyard wedding, she expects to find a bride on the brink of a fairy-tale life. But after a series of unforeseen setbacks--a devastating diagnosis, a castle restoration put on hold, and the emergence of deep-seated family dynamics that threaten to derail the new couple's fledgling marriage--it seems the storybook life Laine had imagined for her friend--and once, for herself--is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When art historian Keira Foley is hired to authenticate a painting at a centuries-old East Suffolk manor, she hopes this is just the thing to get her career and life back on track. But from the time she arrives at Parham Hill Estate and begins working alongside rumored art thief Emory Scott, she's left with far more questions than answers. Could this lost painting of Queen Victoria be a duplicate of the original Winterhalter masterpiece, and if so,...
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English
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"Broken-down walls and crumbled stones seemed to possess a secret language all their own. What stories would they tell, if she finally listened? Ellie Carver arrives at her grandmother's bedside expecting to find her silently slipping away. Instead, the beloved old woman begins speaking. Of a secret past and castle ruins forgotten by time. Of a hidden chapel that served as a rendezvous for the French resistance in World War II. Of lost love...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Two women, one in the present day and one in 1942, each hope for a brighter future. But they'll both have to battle through their darkest days to reach it. Today. With the grand opening of her new gallery and a fairy-tale wedding months away, Sera James appears to have a charmed life. But in an instant, the prospect of a devastating legal battle surrounding her fiancé threatens to tear her dreams apart ... June 1942. After surviving the Blitz...
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Znak
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Polish
Description
" Paryż, rok 1939. Miasto Świateł ogarnia mrok. Dla Sandrine Paquet wojna zmieniła wszystko. Jej mąż zaginął na froncie, a szczęśliwe, pełne blasku życie stało się jedynie mglistym wspomnieniem. Tymczasem z polecenia nazistów Sandrine kataloguje dzieła sztuki kradzione żydowskim rodzinom, w tajemnicy przekazując informacje na ich temat francuskiemu ruchowi oporu. Pewnego dnia otrzymuje skrzynkę zawierającą suknię Chanel z zagadkową...
12) Motyl i skrzypce
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Znak
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Polish
Description
Adele von Bron, utalentowana skrzypaczka, poswiecila wszystko, zeby ratowac ostatnich wiedenskich Zydów. Kiedy na polecenie wlasnego ojca, wysokiego ranga generala Trzeciej Rzeszy, trafila do obozu w Auschwitz, jej piekny swiat legl w gruzach. Przerazajaca codziennoscia staly sie glód, strach i cierpienie. Kilkadziesiat lat póznej Sera James, wlascicielka galerii sztuki na Manhattanie, angazuje sie w poszukiwania portretu mlodej skrzypaczki, który...
13) Włoska balerina
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Znak
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Polish
Description
"„Całą tę historię zachowam w tajemnicy, dopóki nie będziesz gotowa, aby ją wyjawić". Julia Bradbury jest wybitną primabaleriną. Zachwyca tańcem na prestiżowych scenach. Kiedy wybucha druga wojna światowa, nie waha się ani chwili i wstępuje do armii. Chce zostać telefonistką lub sanitariuszką. Los ma dla niej jednak inny plan. Julia wciąż musi tańczyć. Na dodatek w parze z mężczyzną, który przed laty boleśnie złamał...