The Tuscan Child

In it is a startling revelation. Still dealing with the emotional wounds of her own personal trauma, Joanna embarks on a healing journey to Tuscany to understand her father’s history—and maybe come to understand herself as well. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal.

Nearly thirty years later, hugo’s estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father’s funeral. From new york times and wall street journal bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father’s hidden past to discover his secrets… “Pass the bread, the olives, and the wine.

Joanna soon discovers that some would prefer the past be left undisturbed, but she has come too far to let go of her father’s secrets now…. Oh, and a copy of The Tuscan Child to savor with them. Nprin 1944, british bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany.

Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. Among his personal effects is an unopened letter addressed to Sofia.

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In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II

Lake union. But pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility. As ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela’s family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. The assignment also offers ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves.

Can he, love, stop them before england falls?inspired by the events and people of World War II, family, with Pamela’s help, writer Rhys Bowen crafts a sweeping and riveting saga of class, and betrayal. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy.

. Instantly absorbing, suspenseful, romantic, and stylish—like binge-watching a great British drama on Masterpiece Theater. Lee child, new york times bestselling authorwinner of the Left Coast Crime Award winner for Best Historical Mystery Novel and the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. World war ii comes to farleigh place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate.

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The Baker's Secret: A Novel

Emma gives the people a taste of hope—the faith that one day the Allies will arrive to save them. A tale beautifully, wisely, and masterfully told. Paula mclain, critically acclaimed author of the hummingbird and the curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II—a shimmering tale of courage, determination, author of The Paris Wife and Circling the SunFrom the multiple-award-winning, optimism, and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small Normandy village on the eve of D-Day.

On june 5, as dawn rises over a small town on the normandy coast of France, 1944, Emmanuelle is making the bread that has sustained her fellow villagers in the dark days since the Germans invaded her country. But her gift to the village is more than these few crusty loaves. She was likewise powerless to help when they pulled Ezra from his shop at gunpoint, the first of many villagers stolen away and never seen again.

In the years that her sleepy coastal village has suffered under the enemy, Emma has silently, stealthily fought back. And each day, she mixes that precious flour with ground straw to create enough dough for two extra loaves—contraband bread she shares with the hungry villagers. Under the cold, watchful eyes of armed soldiers, she builds a clandestine network of barter and trade that she and the villagers use to thwart their occupiers.

Lake union. Apprenticed to ezra at thirteen, Emma watched with shame and anger as her kind mentor was forced to wear the six-pointed yellow star on his clothing. Only twenty-two, emma learned to bake at the side of a master, Ezra Kuchen, the village baker since before she was born.


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Hearts of Resistance

At the height of world war ii, three women must come together to fight for freedom, for the men they love—and for each other. When hazel is given the chance to parachute into Nazi-occupied France, she seizes the opportunity to do more for the British war effort than file paperwork. What starts out as helping downed airmen becomes a bigger cause when they meet Sophia, a German escapee and fierce critic of Hitler who is wanted by the Gestapo.

For rose, the resistance is a link to her late husband, and a way to move forward without him. Alongside her childhood friend, French-born Rose, she quickly rises up the ranks of the freedom fighters. Together the three women form a bond that will last a lifetime. But amid the turmoil and tragedy of warfare, all three risk losing everything—and everyone—they hold dear.

Will their united front be strong enough to see them through? Lake union.


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The Runaway Children: Gripping and heartbreaking historical fiction

Without a doubt this is one book I could read again and again and I know I will love it even more than the last time I read it. It was a charming book with wonderful characters. I can't recommend this book highly enough. A heart-wrenching, unforgettable journey of two evacuee sisters during World War Two as they try to find their way home… London, 1942: Thirteen-year-old Nell and five-year-old Olive are being sent away to the countryside to escape the devastation of the East End during the Blitz.

Filled with unexpected twists and turns, you'll want to keep the box of tissues nearby! FIVE stars. Kimberly’s bookshelf ‘Brilliant! Love this author and was excited to read this. Leaving behind their beloved mother and brothers, they don’t know if they will ever see them again. Sandy taylor is one amazing writer and the way she writes and describes the character really pulls you into the story.

As the sisters adjust to their new life in a close-knit Welsh village, they gradually find hope in the friendships they make. But when little olive’s safety is threatened, Nell makes a decision that will change their lives forever. This is the first book from this author that I have read and I will certainly be reading more of her work.

Mesmerizing, sweet, funny, beautiful, I just adored The Runaway Children and feel bereft at having now finished it. Another heartfelt story of a family's determination through the war, I devoured this in one sitting.


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The Room on Rue Amélie

Lake union. After the jewish restrictions take effect and Jews are ordered to wear the yellow star, Charlotte can’t imagine things getting much worse. Then he finds himself in paris, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, and he discovers a new reason to keep fighting—and an unexpected road home. Thomas clarke joins the british royal air force to protect his country, but when his beloved mother dies in a German bombing during the waning days of the Blitz, he wonders if he’s really making a difference.

Rich with historical drama and emotional depth, this is an unforgettable story that will stay with you long after the final page is turned. But war is looming on the horizon, her marriage begins to splinter, and as France falls to the Nazis, too. But then the mass deportations begin, and her life is ripped forever apart.

. Charlotte dacher is eleven when the Germans roll into the French capital, their sinister swastika flags snapping in the breeze. For fans of kristin hannah’s the nightingale and martha hall kelly’s lilac girls, this powerful novel of fate, a British RAF pilot, and family—by the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Again—tells the tale of an American woman, resistance, and a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II.

When newlywed ruby henderson benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel, she imagines strolling arm in arm along the grand boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. When fate brings them together, charlotte, Ruby, and Thomas must summon the courage to defy the Nazis—and to open their own broken hearts—as they fight to survive.

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The Beekeeper's Promise

The old château echoes with voices from the past, and soon Abi finds herself drawn to one remarkable woman’s story, a story that could change the course of her summer—and her life. In 1938, eliane martin tends beehives in the garden of the beautiful Château Bellevue. But france’s eastern border is darkening under the clouds of war, and history has other plans for Eliane…When she is separated from Mathieu in the chaos of German occupation, Eliane makes the dangerous decision to join the Resistance and fight for France’s liberty.

In its shadow she meets mathieu Dubosq and falls in love for the first time, daring to hope that a happy future awaits. Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Château Bellevue. But with no end to the war in sight, her loyalty to Mathieu is severely tested.

From the bestselling author of sea of Memories comes the story of two remarkable women, generations apart, who must use adversity to their advantage and find the resilience deep within. Lake union.


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Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the usa today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.

When his family home in milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, and falls for Anna, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier—a move they think will keep him out of combat.

Lake union. He’s a normal italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. But after pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.

Now, pino endures the horrors of the war and the nazi occupation by fighting in secret, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share. Fans of all the light we cannot see, suspense, and Unbroken will enjoy this riveting saga of history, The Nightingale, and love.

Pino lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis.


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The Hideaway

Instead, a motley crew of senior citizens, she learns Mags has willed The Hideaway to her and charged her with renovating it—no small task considering her grandmother’s best friends, still live there. Rather than hurrying back to New Orleans, Sara stays in Sweet Bay and begins the biggest house-rehabbing project of her career.

Thomas nelson. With help from mags’s friends, sara begins to piece together the mysterious life of bravery, passion, and choices that changed her grandmother’s destiny in both marvelous and devastating ways. When an opportunistic land developer threatens to seize the Hideaway, Sara is forced to make a choice—stay in Sweet Bay and fight for the house and the people she’s grown to love or leave again and return to her successful but solitary life in New Orleans.

Two endearing heroines and their poignant storylines of love lost and found make this the perfect book for an afternoon on the back porch with a glass of sweet tea. Karen white, new York Times bestselling author Lake union. Now a usa today and amazon charts bestseller!“A story both powerful and enchanting: a don’t-miss novel in the greatest southern traditions of storytelling.

Patti callahan henry, new york times bestselling authorWhen her grandmother’s will wrenches Sara back home, she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in life. After her last remaining family member dies, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, Alabama.

Amid drywall dust, and a charming contractor, old memories, she discovers that slipping back into life at The Hideaway is easier than she expected.


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The Silver Music Box The Silver Music Box series

A captivating cross-generational novel from German author Mina Baites about a Jewish family divided by World War II and an inheritance with the power to bring them back together. 1914. He crafted this treasure for his young son before leaving to fight in a terrible war to honor his beloved country—a country that would soon turn against his own family.

A half century later, Londoner Lilian Morrison inherits the box after the death of her parents. Too young to remember, Lilian was rescued from a Germany in the grips of the Holocaust. Now only she can trace what happened to a family who scattered to the reaches of the world, a family forced to choose between their heritage and their dreams for the future.

With the keepsake is a letter from Lilian’s mother, telling her daughter for the first time that she was adopted. Though the silver is tarnished and dented, this much-loved treasure is also a link to an astonishing past. Jewish silversmith johann Blumenthal engraved those words on his most exquisite creation, a singing filigree bird inside a tiny ornamented box.

For paul, with love. Thomas nelson. Lake union.


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The Paris Architect: A Novel

Thomas nelson. The new york times bestseller!“a beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war. Malcolm gladwellan extraordinary novel about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris, from an author who's been called "an up and coming Ken Follett.

Booklistin 1942 paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money – and maybe get him killed. But if he’s clever enough, he’ll avoid any trouble. But when one of his hiding spaces fails horribly, and the problem of where to hide a Jew becomes terribly personal, Lucien can no longer ignore what’s at stake.

The paris architect asks us to consider what we owe each other, and just how far we’ll go to make things right. Lake union. Sourcebooks Landmark. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can’t resist. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won’t find it.

Written by an architect whose knowledge imbues every page, this story becomes more gripping with every soul hidden and every life saved.


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