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Ethan Gage wants to enjoy the fruits of victory after helping
Napoleon win the Battle of Marengo, but an ill-advised tryst with
Bonaparte's married sister has made that impossible. So now, with
President Thomas Jefferson's blessings, Ethan and a mystic
Norwegian, Magnus Bloodhammer, embark upon an expedition into
America's western wilderness--dodging hostile Indians and a British
seductress as they search for the mythical hammer of the Norse god
Thor. The prize, which was allegedly carried to North America more
than a century before Columbus arrived, leads them across a
landscape no white man has yet traversed. Here Gage's skills will
be tested as never before--as he braves frontier peril en route to
the most incredible discovery of all time.
From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and The Heart's Invisible Furies.
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
Then, a young family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between Henry's mother and his domineering father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence.
Gretel is faced with a chance to expiate her guilt, grief and remorse and act to save a young boy - for the second time in her life. But to do so, she will be forced to reveal her true identity to the world. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?
Fra Filippo Lippi is notorious for his contempt of his vows; he was
never obedient and never chaste. The nun who modelled for his
pictures of the Virgin Mary became the mother of his children. Yet
this apparently 'bad' man painted divine pictures; moreover, he was
the favourite painter of that very astute patron, Cosimo de'
Medici.
This is the story of three women - one an orphan and refugee who finds a place in the studio of a famous French artist, the other a wife and mother who has stood by her husband for nearly forty years. The third is his daughter, caught in the crossfire between her mother and a father she adores.
Amelie is first drawn to Henri Matisse as a way of escaping the conventional life expected of her. A free spirit, she sees in this budding young artist a glorious future for them both. Ambitious and driven, she gives everything for her husband's art, ploughing her own desires, her time, her money into sustaining them both, even through years of struggle and disappointment.
Lydia Delectorskaya is a young Russian emigree, who fled her homeland following the death of her mother. After a fractured childhood, she is trying to make a place for herself on France's golden Riviera, amid the artists, film stars and dazzling elite. Eventually she finds employment with the Matisse family. From this point on, their lives are set on a collision course....
Marguerite is Matisse's eldest daughter. When the life of her family implodes, she must find her own way to make her mark and to navigate divided loyalties.
Based on a true story, Madame Matisse is a stunning novel about drama and betrayal; emotion and sex; glamour and tragedy, all set in the hotbed of the 1930s art movement in France. In art, as in life, this a time when the rules were made to be broken...
Based on the heart-breaking true story of Cilka Klein, Cilka's
Journey is a million copy international bestseller and the sequel
to the No.1 bestselling phenomenon, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'She
was the bravest person I ever met' Lale Sokolov, The Tattooist of
Auschwitz In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is
taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at
Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces
her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly
that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After
liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator by the Russians and
sent to a desolate, brutal prison camp in Siberia known as Vorkuta,
inside the Arctic Circle. Innocent, imprisoned once again, Cilka
faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, each day a battle
for survival. Cilka befriends a woman doctor, and learns to nurse
the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under unimaginable
conditions. And when she tends to a man called Alexandr, Cilka
finds that despite everything, there is room in her heart for love.
Cilka's Journey is a powerful testament to the triumph of the human
will. It will move you to tears, but it will also leave you
astonished and uplifted by one woman's fierce determination to
survive, against all odds. Don't miss Heather Morris's next book,
Stories of Hope. Out now. - - - - - - - - 'Her truly incredible
story is one to be read by everyone.' Sun 'Cilka's extraordinary
courage in the face of evil and her determination to survive
against the odds will stay with you long after you've finished
reading this heartrending book.' Sunday Express 'Her courage and
determination to survive makes for a heartrending read.' Daily
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A Debt of War
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Michael Ringering; Edited by Robb Grindstaff
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