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Language
English
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France, 1916. Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer's dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything -- her family, her reputation, and her life -- to see her husband again. Nearly a century later, Sophie's portrait is given to Liv Halston by her young husband shortly before...
Author
Series
Father Anselm novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When a suspected Nazi war criminal demands sanctuary from his church, Father Anselm finds his investigation paralleled by a search by Lucy Aubret, whose grandmother was betrayed by the Nazi criminal when she secretly worked to rescue Jewish children.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Emily Braden joins her cousin on trip to explore the town of Chinon, where Queen Isabelle hid a treasure in the thirteenth century, she stumbles across another Isabelle who hid a treasure during the second World War.
5) Jackdaws
Author
Language
English
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Description
In his own best tradition of "Eye of the Needle" and "The Key to Rebecca, " Follett follows his major bestseller, "Code to Zero, " with a breathtaking novel of suspense set in the most dangerous days of World War II.
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 5
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002, c2012
Language
English
Description
Jean Casson, an anti-hero sought by the Gestapo, becomes involved in an ill-fated 1941 plot to smuggle arms to the Communist Resistance, in a tale of espionage and intrigue set against the backdrop of occupied France.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--