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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Resistance spy. Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European war brides aboard the renowned RMS Queen Mary to cross the Atlantic and be reunited with their American husbands. Their new lives in the United States brightly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 263 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Every so often that story comes along that reminds us of what it's like to experience love for the first time-against the odds, when you least expect it, and with such passion that it completely changes you forever.
An unexpected discovery takes eighty-four-year-old Lily Davis Woodward to 1945, and the five days that forever changed her life. Married for only a week before her husband was sent to fight in WWII, Lily is anxious for his return, and...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follows a cast of characters as the negotiate one of Manhattan's swiftly changing neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the perils and unease of twenty-first-century life. Marie and Simone, friends for decades, were once immigrants to New York, survivors of World War II in Europe. Now widows, living in Chelsea, they remain engaged and adventurous, even as their past interrupts their present. Helen is an art historian who takes a painting class with...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
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Series
Publisher
Old Barn Trace Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
503 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the war finally ended in May of 1945, Lieutenant Danny McClain made good on his promise to come back for Anya in Holland. He expected her to put up a fight, but instead found her exhausted and utterly broken. Maybe it was unfair, asking her to marry him when she was so vulnerable. But this much he knew: he would spend a lifetime helping to make her whole again. The war had taken everything from Anya--her family, her friends, her home, her faith....
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"World War II Paris serves as the backdrop of a story of compassion, betrayal, and forgiveness from the national bestselling author of The Wedding Tree. "I never knew what he saw in you." At her assisted living center in Wedding Tree, Louisiana, ninety-three-year-old Amélie O'Connor is in the habit of leaving her door open for friends. One day she receives an unexpected visitor--Kat Thompson, the ex-fiancée of her late husband, Jack. Kat and Jack...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Large print ed. ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
319 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's the fall of 1917, and the people in Canela, Texas are shocked when Carolyn Wentworth, believed to be nothing more than a beautiful social butterfly, volunteers to go to France as a nurse's aid. She'll be back in a month, they predict. But there's more to Carolyn than anyone realizes. Though she's appalled by the conditions in the hospital, she will not admit that her impulsive decision may have been the biggest mistake of her life. Instead, she...