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Published by Berkley, 2015
ISBN 10: 0451419928ISBN 13: 9780451419927
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Published by christianaudio Fiction, 2015
ISBN 10: 1633892298ISBN 13: 9781633892293
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 045147600XISBN 13: 9780451476005
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women-past and present-in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life.Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women-past and present-in this emotional novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War.February, 1946. 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 Resistancespy.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 beckon until their tightly-held secrets are laid bare in their shared stateroom. When the voyage ends at New York Harbor, only one of them will disembark.Present day. Facing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake visits the famously haunted Queen Mary at the request of an old friend. What she finds will set her on a course to solve a seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the heartaches and triumphs of the courageous war brides-and will ultimately lead her to reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her own deepest longings.CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED "Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women, past and present"--Amazon.com. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Meissner, Susan, 2022
ISBN 10: 0451492196ISBN 13: 9780451492197
Seller: Ami Ventures Inc Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: New. "Product DescriptionApril 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed.Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right.Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved.The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear.From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity.ReviewPraise for The Nature of Fragile Things"A terrific tale that takes us on a harrowing cable-car ride through early 20th century San Francisco, where dark secrets-like the city itself-crack wide open, forcing our world-weary heroine to confront the devastation done by the lies she's been told and by the lies she's still telling."-Stephanie Dray, author of America s First Daughter and The Women of Chateau Lafayette"A brilliant story of resilience and the power of female friendship."-Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie"A mysterious web of lies, love, and loss that accelerates toward the inevitable: the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906."-Kristin Harmel, author of The Book of Lost Names"A riveting tale set in 1906 San Francisco. These fascinating characters' hidden pasts and dark secrets collide, entwine, and explode-and that's before the earthquake hits."-Greer Macallister, author of The Magician's Lie and The Arctic Fury"In the ashes of San Francisco's greatest tragedy, one remarkable woman finds love, friendship, and the means to rebuild. Historical fiction that reads with the urgency and suspense of a thriller."-Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Country"Driven by the unstoppable force of the three intriguing women at its heart, this is a novel to savor, and one to share with all the women in your life whom you admire."-Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of When We Were Young & Brave"Meissner spins an exceptional story .Unexpected and masterfully crafted twists and turns abound .Ingeniously plotted and perfectly structured, this captivates from beginning to end."-Publisher's Weekly (starred review)About the AuthorSusan Meissner is a former managing editor of a weekly newspaper, and an award-winning columnist. She is the award-winning author of The Last Year of the War, As Bright as Heaven, A Bridge Across the Ocean, Secrets of a Charmed Life, A Fall of Marigolds, and Stars over Sunset Boulevard, among other novels.Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.1INTERVIEW WITH MRS. SOPHIE HOCKINGCONDUCTED BY AMBROSE LOGAN, U.S. MARSHALCASE NUMBER 069308Official transcriptSan Francisco, CANovember 6, 1906QUESTION: Thank you again for coming. Could you please state your full name, age, birth date, and the city where you were born, for the record, please?ANSWER: Sophie Whalen Hocking. August 24, 1884. Donaghadee, County Down, Ireland. I'm twenty-two.QUESTION: Whalen is your maiden nam".
Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, New York, 2020
ISBN 10: 0451492161ISBN 13: 9780451492166
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Elise Sontag is a typical Iowan fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity.The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences.But when the Sontag family is exchanged for American prisoners behind enemy lines in Germany, Elise will face head on the person the war desires to make of her. In that devastating crucible, she must discover whether she has the will to rise above prejudice and hatred and re-claim her own destiny, or disappear into the image others have cast upon her.The Last Year of the War tells a little-known story of World War II with great resonance for our own times and challenges the very notion of who we are when who we've always been is called into question.From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II.In 1943,Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowa-aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity.The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences.But when the Sontag family is exchanged for American prisoners behind enemy lines in Germany, Elise will face head-on the person the war desires to make of her. In that devastating crucible she must discover if she has the will to rise above prejudice and hatred and re-claim her own destiny, or disappear into the image others have cast upon her.The Last Year of the War tells a little-known story of World War II with great resonance for our own times and challenges the very notion of who we are when who we've always been is called into question. A German American teenager's life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by christianaudio and Blackstone Publishing, 2021
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
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Published by Center Point Pub, 2015
ISBN 10: 1628995556ISBN 13: 9781628995558
Seller: Byrd Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by New American Library, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 0451475992ISBN 13: 9780451475992
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A new novel of Hollywood's Golden Age from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed LifeIn this novel from the acclaimed author of A Bridge Across the Ocean and The Last Year of the War, two women working in Hollywood during its Golden Age discover the joy and heartbreak of true friendship.Los Angeles, Present Day. When an iconic hat worn by Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Windends up in Christine McAllister's vintage clothing boutique by mistake, her efforts to return it to its owner take her on a journey more enchanting than any classic movie.Los Angeles, 1938. Violet Mayfield sets out to reinvent herself in Hollywood after her dream of becoming a wife and mother falls apart, and lands a job on the film-set of Gone With the Wind. There, she meets enigmatic Audrey Duvall, a once-rising film star who is now a fellow secretary. Audrey's zest for life and their adventures together among Hollywood's glitterati enthrall Violet.until each woman's deepest desires collide.What Audrey and Violet are willing to risk, for themselves and for each other, to ensure their own happy endings will shape their friendship, and their lives, far into the future.CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 2014
ISBN 10: 045141991XISBN 13: 9780451419910
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. Susan Meissner is a former managing editor of a weekly newspaper and an award-winning columnist. She is the award-winning author of A Fall of Marigolds, Secrets of a Charmed Life, Stars over Sunset Boulevard,&.
Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 2019
ISBN 10: 0399585974ISBN 13: 9780399585975
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. Susan Meissner is a former managing editor of a weekly newspaper and an award-winning columnist. She is the award-winning author of A Bridge Across the Ocean, Secrets of a Charmed Life, A Fall of Marigolds, and Stars Over Suns.