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The Trouble with You
Ellen Feldman
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R505
R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
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'Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story
will stay with me for a long time' Heather Morris, bestselling
author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz on A Bookshop in Paris A young
German Jewish woman returns to Allied Occupied Berlin from America
to face the past and unexpected future.Young Meike 'Millie' Mosbach
and her brother David escape Berlin just before the horror of
Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister to follow
them to America. But their family never arrives. After the war they
return to a shattered city, hoping against hope to find their
family. Postwar Berlin is a wild west where drunken soldiers brawl,
spies ply their trade and 'werewolves' - unrepentant Nazis - scheme
to rise again. Consumed with rage at her former country, Millie's
job rooting out Nazis from publishing seems the perfect outlet. But
her anger begins to thaw as she is faced with the reality of what
the war has done to everyone, guilty at their own good fortune.
Everyone except for Millie's boss, Major Harry Sutton, who seems
too eager to be fair to the Germans and far too perceptive about
Millie. In the rubble of postwar Berlin, Millie is forced to
confront a devastating secret and find the courage to embrace love
- and a new beginning. Atmospheric and page-turning, Return to
Berlin is a story of love, survival, and forgiveness of others and
of self. 'A deeply satisfying and truly adult novel' Margot
Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy 'A gorgeous,
shattering story that could not be more timely about the dark
damage of hatred and the persistence of love' Caroline Leavitt,
author of Is This Tomorrow
The war is over, but the past is never past ... Paris, 1944.
Charlotte Foret is working in a tiny bookstore in Nazi-occupied
Paris struggling to stay alive and keep her baby Vivi safe as the
world around them is being torn apart. Every day they live through
is a miracle until Vivi becomes gravely ill. In desperation,
Charlotte accepts help from an unlikely saviour - and her life is
changed forever. Charlotte is no victim - she is a survivor. But
the truth of what happened in Paris is something she can never
share with anyone, including her daughter. But can she ever really
leave Paris behind - and survive the next chapter of her life?
Seamlessly interweaving Charlotte's past in wartime Paris and her
present in the 1950s world of New York publishing, A Bookshop in
Paris is a heartbreakingly moving and unforgettable story of
resilience, love - and impossible choices. 'Completely compelling.
I tore through it. This novel pivots on how we manage to survive
surviving ... Charlotte's visceral story will stay with me.' Naomi
Wood, author of Mrs Hemingway 'Masterful, magnificent. A passionate
story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long time'
Heather Morris, bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Published in the US and Australia as Paris Never Leaves You
On February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter,
whom she at first disliked and eventually came to love, had
confided to her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself
entirely. This novel is the story of what might have happened if
the boy in hiding had survived to become a man. Peter arrives in
America, the land of self-creation, and passes as a Christian.
Successful in business and rich in love in the boom years of the
1950s, he thrives in the present, plans for the future, and has no
past. But there is a cost to his charade. When The Diary of a Young
Girl is published to worldwide acclaim, it triggers paralyzing
memories of his experiences in the secret annex in Amsterdam. The
diary is his story too, and once the floodgate of memory opens, his
life spirals out of control. Based on extensive research of Peter
van Pels and the strange and disturbing life Anne Frank's diary
took on after her death, this is a novel about the memory of death,
the death of memory, and the inescapability of the past. Reading
group guide included.
With an introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips Shortlisted for the
Orange Prize for Fiction, a novel inspired by the shocking true
story of the Scottsboro boys. Even after all these years, the
injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a
crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred.
Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling.
Alabama, 1931. A freight train is stopped in Scottsboro, nine black
youths are brutally arrested and, within minutes, the cry of rape
goes up from two white girls. In the shocking aftermath, one sticks
to her story whilst the other keeps changing her mind, and an
impassioned young journalist must try to save nine boys from the
electric chair, one girl from a lie and herself from the clutches
of the past . . . Stirring racism, sexism and the politics of a
divided America into an explosive brew, Scottsboro gives voice to
the victims - black and white - of this infamous case. Shortlisted
for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2009, Ellen Feldman's classic
charts a fight for justice during the burgeoning civil-rights
movement.
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Lucy (Paperback)
Ellen Feldman
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R579
R510
Discovery Miles 5 100
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On the eve of World War I, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, fiercely ambitious and still untouched by polio,
falls in love with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer.
Eleanor stumbles on their letters and divorce is discussed, but
honor and ambition win out. Franklin promises he will never see
Lucy again. But Franklin and Lucy do meet again, and again they
fall in love. As he prepares to run for an unprecedented third term
and lead America into war, Franklin turns to Lucy for the warmth
and unconditional approval Eleanor is unable to give. Ellen Feldman
brings a novelist's insight to bear on the connection of these
three compelling characters. Franklin and Lucy did finally meet,
across the divide of his illness and political ascendancy, her
marriage and widowhood. They fell in love again. As he prepared to
run for an unprecedented third term and lead America into war,
Franklin turned to Lucy for the warmth and unconditional approval
Eleanor was unable to give. Drawing on recently discovered
materials to re-create the voice of a woman who played a crucial
but silent role in the Roosevelt presidency, Lucy is a remarkably
sensitive exploration of the private lives behind a public
marriage. Reading group guide included.
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