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Sisters of Belfast

By Melanie Maure - Published 2024

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Twin sisters Aelish and Isabel suffer the devastating loss of both their parents when their Belfast home is bombed during WW2. Then aged ...Read Review

The Winthrop Agreement

By Alice Simpson - Published 2023

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New York, 1893. Lithuanian immigrant Rivkah Milmanovitch debarks on Ellis Island, expecting to join her husband and start a new life, but instead, she ...Read Review

Children of the Catastrophe

By Sarah Shoemaker - Published 2022

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In a steam bath in Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire in 1908, a Greek jeweler’s wife, Theodora, brushes the hair of her daughter, ...Read Review

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

By Roxane van Iperen - Published 2021

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Nonfiction

Writer Roxane van Iperen lives near Naarden in the Netherlands, in a house called the High Nest which served as a Jewish safe ...Read Review

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

By Lucy Adlington - Published 2021

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Nonfiction

“Selection is such an innocent word out of context.” In the 1940s it was not selection that was innocent, but those selected: unmarried ...Read Review

The Forgotten Daughter

By Joanna Goodman - Published 2020

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Revolving around the 1970 to 1990s French Canadian separatist movement and the plight of the 1950s Duplessis orphans, this novel makes it all personal ...Read Review

The Starlet and the Spy (US) / Marilyn and Me (UK)

By Ji-min Lee - Published 2019

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This short but emotionally intense novel takes a real-life moment – Marilyn Monroe’s USO visit to the troops at the close of the ...Read Review

The Peacock Summer

By Hannah Richell - Published 2018Published 2019

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Summoned home to present-day England to care for her grandmother, Maggie Oberon finds Lillian ailing and confused, the grand manor of Cloudesley falling ...Read Review

The Witches of St. Petersburg

By Imogen Edwards-Jones - Published 2019

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Romanov fans rejoice! At long last, a novel about the two “Black Princesses” (so called because of their black eyes) of Montenegro, whose ...Read Review