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And then came war . . .
Today. Sera James spends most of her time arranging auctions for the art world's
elite clientele. When her search to uncover an original portrait of an unknown
Holocaust victim leads her to William Hanover III, they learn that this painting is
much more than it seems.
Vienna, 1942. Adele Von Bron has always known what was expected of her. As a
prodigy of Vienna's vast musical heritage, this concert violinist intends to carry on her
family's tradition and play with the Vienna Philharmonic. But when the Nazis learn
that she helped smuggle Jews out of the city, Adele is taken from her promising
future and thrust into the horrifying world of Auschwitz.
The veil of innocence is lifted to expose a shuddering presence of evil, and Adele
realizes that her God-given gift is her only advantage; she must play. Becoming a
member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, she fights for survival. Adele's
barbed-wire walls begin to kill her hope as the months drag into nearly two years in
the camp. With surprising courage against the backdrop of murder and despair, Adele
finally confronts a question that has been tugging at her heart: Even in the midst of
evil, can she find hope in worshipping God with her gift?
As Sera and William learn more about the subject of the mysterious portrait-
Adele-they are reminded that whatever horrors one might face, God's faithfulness
never falters.
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All for Nothing
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Walter Kempowski; Translated by Anthea Bell
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A brilliantly evocative, atmospheric novel about the delusion and
indecision of a wealthy family in the last days of the Third Reich
as the Russians advance from the east In January 1945, the German
army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing
the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and
on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von
Globig family seals itself off from the world. Protected from the
deprivation and chaos around them, they make no preparations to
leave until a decision to harbour a stranger for the night begins
their undoing. Finally joining the great trek west, the remaining
members of the family face at last the catastrophic consequences of
the war. Profoundly evocative of the period, sympathetic yet
painfully honest about the motivations of its characters, All for
Nothing is a devastating portrait of the complicities and denials
of the German people as the Third Reich comes to an end.
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Eyes of the Rigel
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Roy Jacobsen; Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw
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The third novel in a historical trilogy that began with the
International Booker shortlisted The Unseen "Taken together,
Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first
half of the 20th century that is subtle and moving" David Mills,
Sunday Times "Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . .
. One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class" Times
Literary Supplement The journey had taken on its own momentum, it
had become an autonomous, independent entity, she was searching for
love, and was still happily unaware that truth is the first
casualty of peace. The long war is over, and Ingrid Barroy leaves
the island that bears her name to search for the father of her
child. Alexander, the Russian captive who survived the sinking of
prisoner ship the Rigel and found himself in Ingrid's arms, made an
attempt to cross the mountains to Sweden. Ingrid will follow in his
footsteps, carrying her babe in arms, the child's dark eyes the
only proof that she ever knew him. Along the way, Ingrid's will
encounter collaborators, partisans, refugees, deserters, slaves and
sinners, in a country that still bears the scars of defeat and
occupation. And before her journey's end she will be forced to ask
herself how well she knows the man she is risking everything to
find. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
Don Bartlett is the acclaimed translator of books by Karl Ove
Knausgard, Jo Nesbo and Per Petterson. Don Shaw, co-translator, is
a teacher of Danish and author of the standard
Danish-Thai/Thai-Danish dictionaries. With the support of the
Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
The bestselling author of The Designer presents a sweeping story of
blind faith, family allegiance and how love makes one man question
everything he thought he knew. Max Wolff is a committed soldier of
the Reich. So when he is sent home wounded, only to discover that
his mother is sheltering two young Jewish women in their home, he
is outraged. His mother's act of mercy is a gross betrayal of
everything Max stands for. He has dedicated his life to Nazism,
fighting to atone for the shame of his anti-Hitler father's
imprisonment. It's his duty to turn the sisters over to the
Gestapo. But he hesitates, and the longer Max fails to do his duty,
the harder it becomes. When Allied bombers fill the skies of
Germany, Max is forced to abandon all dogma and face the brutality
of war in order to defend precious lives. But what will it cost
him?
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Charlotte
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David Foenkinos; Translated by Sam Taylor
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Charlotte Salomon is born into a family stricken by suicide and a
country at war. But there is something exceptional about her - she
has a gift, a talent for painting. And she has a great love, for a
brilliant, eccentric musician. But just as she is coming into her
own as an artist, death is coming to control her country. The Nazis
have come to power and, as a Jew in Berlin, Charlotte's life is
narrowing, and she knows every second is precious. Inspiring,
unflinching, terrible and hopeful, Charlotte is the heartbreaking
true story of a life filled with curiosity, animated by genius and
cut short by hatred.
Full of mounting suspense and masterly characterisation, Bates's
popular wartime novel tells the story of three very different men
who, after their aircraft crashes, are forced to trek across the
Burmese wilderness to safety. It is reissued by Methuen along with
"The Jacaranda Tree" and "The Purple Plain" and to coincide with
the re-publication in one volume of Bates' acclaimed
autobiographies - "The Vanished World", "The Blossoming World" and
"World in Ripeness".
Channel to Freedom, is the third part of the fictional trilogy,
describing the role and operations of a naval Special Forces unit,
based on Tresco, in the Isles of Scilly. It describes the part
played in World War 2, by this ultra-secret unit, from D-Day until
the end of the war in Europe. So secret was the real-life flotilla,
that news of it was not released, under the Official Secrets Act,
until 1995. As the war moves to its climax, the Germans become ever
more desperate to regain lost ground. In operations demanding the
highest levels of courage and personal daring, Lieutenant-Commander
Richard Tremayne's specialist experience is called upon, to counter
new German threats. Advanced enemy technology, providing them with
battle-field advantages over the Allies, becomes one of his major
targets, set against impossible time-scales, and the most
terrifying personal threat. Leading his highly trained team, he
fights on land and at sea, ranging around Europe, from the
Kattegat, to the east coast of Ireland and to Mediterranean
islands, off Toulon, as well as his familiar battle-grounds of
Brittany. Such covert operations, sometimes straying into neutral
waters, place intense political pressures on Tremayne, demanding
from him, the utmost sensitivity - as well as results.
Nominated in Best Fiction at the Audie Awards 2020. Her beauty
saved her life - and condemned her. 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. Based on
what is known of Cilka Klein's time in Auschwitz, and on the
experience of women in Siberian prison camps, Cilka's Journey is
the breathtaking sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz. A powerful
testament to the triumph of the human will, this novel 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. 'She
was the bravest person I ever met' Lale Sokolov, The Tattooist of
Auschwitz This audiobook edition is an mp3-CD.
The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this
James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel
Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Nicola
Barker. A figure had condensed out of the shuddering backdrop of
the glare. He is born in fire: a naked child in the blood-red
flames of London's Blitz. Miraculously saved but grotesquely
burned, this mysterious orphan is named Matty. Doomed to a life of
torment, he becomes a wanderer, a spiritual seeker after unknown
redemption. They are also lost children: neglected twins, as
exquisitely beautiful as they are loveless and sinful. Toni
explores political terrorism; Sophy, sexual dominance and violent
criminality. But their destinies will soon collide in an
apocalyptic climax - one that illuminates the inner and outer
darkness of modern humanity. 'Exceptional ... Irresistibly
transcendent ... Golding seduces us, transfixes, bewitches and
confounds us.' Nicola Barker 'The most powerful, and strangest, of
all Golding's novels, and one of the great masterpieces of the
twentieth-century.' Philip Hensher 'A master craftsman in [his]
magic ... Golding's best book ... Wonderfully creepy.' London
Review of Books 'A vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to
hallucinate the scenes ... Magic.' NYTBR 'One of the most moving
books I've ever read.' The Times
Knights of the Skull is a full-color, graphic non-fiction series
chronicling the development of the German Panzer (armored) forces
in World War II. Beginning with the early campaigns in 193941, this
first volume features the unleashing of Blitzkrieg in Poland in
1939, the incredible defeat of the western Allies in France in
1940, and then the legendary Gen. Erwin Rommels initial North
African campaigns in 1941. With detailed, and historically accurate
illustrations of vehicles, uniforms, locations, and characters,
this vivid chronicle of the early years of World War II in Europe
is not only an artistic look at the war, but is also a concise
history of Germany's influential approach to armored warfare.
Tactics developed and executed during Germany's 193941 campaigns
changed warfare forever, and were honed throughout the remaining
years of the war.
A hidden and brutal war of subterfuge, stealth and deception is
being waged along the English Channel and the Brittany coast.
British Intelligence has cracked the Enigma Code and Allied forces
have, for a short time, inflicted heavy losses on the U-boat
Wolf-packs preying on shipping in the English Channel - until now.
Plans are also well advanced for the invasion of Normandy. Richard
Tremayne the Flotilla Commander of a clandestine Special Force
Naval unit operating from the rugged coastline of the Scilly Isles
is once more in the thick of it. Author Mike Williams again
delivers a soul-stirring tale of heroism, courage and sacrifice
from the 'small boat men' and remembers the men and women who
remain unsung, but who gave so much in the protection of our coasts
and helped liberate France. This is the second novel to feature
Richard Tremayne (described as a modern day Hornblower or Aubrey
for the 1940s) in wartime operations set in the Scillies, the
English Channel and Northern France.
A breathtaking new novel that asks the question: what if Anne Frank
survived the Holocaust? It is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years
old. Having survived the concentration camps but lost her mother
and sister, she reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated
Amsterdam. But Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghost of her sister,
Margot, and the atrocities they experienced. Her beloved diary is
gone, and her dreams of becoming a writer seem distant and
pointless now. As Anne struggles to build a new life for herself,
she grapples with overwhelming grief, heartbreak, and ultimately
forgiveness. In this masterful story of trauma and redemption,
David Gillham explores with breath-taking empathy the woman - and
the writer - Anne Frank might have become. 'An original, intriguing
novel' Sunday Times
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