Melanie Dobson
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English
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"In this gripping WWII time-slip novel, Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart. More...
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English
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"A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and--decades later--a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry...
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English
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"1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York's gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room. 1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy's castle, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still captivates tourists and locals alike. She is focused on preserving...
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English
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"1942. As war rips through the heart of Holland, childhood friends Josie van Rees and Eliese Linden partner with a few daring citizens to rescue Eliese's son and hundreds of other Jewish children who await deportation in a converted theater in Amsterdam. But amid their resistance work, Josie and Eliese's dangerous secrets could derail their friendship and their entire mission. When the enemy finds these women, only one will escape. Seventy-five years...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Daniel Knight was thirteen, he and ten-year-old Brigitte Berthold escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival. For more than seventy years he has vowed to find Brigitte. Now a wealthy old man, his final hope in finding Brigitte rests with Quenby Vaughn, an American journalist working in London. Quenby is wary at the idea of teaming...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
407 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1938, and as Hitler's troops sweep into Vienna, Austrian Max Dornbach promises to help his Jewish friends hide their most valuable possessions from the Nazis, smuggling them to his family's summer estate near the picturesque village of Hallstatt. He enlists the help of Annika Knopf, his childhood friend and the caretaker's daughter, who is eager to help the man she's loved her entire life. But when Max also brings Luzia Weiss, a young...
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Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, the local Amana villagers welcome the father and daughter into their peaceful society. Liesel, a young Amana woman, nurses Cassie back to health, and the Homestead elders offer Jacob work. But Jacob's growing interest in Liesel complicates...
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Publisher
Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Howard books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"When Heather Toulson returns to her parents' cottage in the English countryside, she uncovers long-hidden secrets about her family history and stumbles onto the truth about a sixty-year-old murder" --
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Christian and Susanna had never met when they were chosen by lot to marry in a Moravian community in Germany. But in 1755, they traveled with a dozen other newly married couples to Nazareth, Pennsylvania, to help establish a Moravian borough and share their faith with the surrounding Indian nations. Susanna's heart warms toward her new husband even after she learns that he had wished to marry another woman in Germany. As war rages between the British...
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Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 hr., 42 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gisèle Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life. Tunnels snake through the hill under her family's medieval chateau in Normandy. Now, with Hitler's army bearing down, her brother and several friends are hiding in the tunnels, resisting the German occupation of France.
But when German soldiers take over the family's chateau, Gisèle is forced to host them as well-while harboring the resistance fighters right below their feet. Taking in a...
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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It's the height of the Gilded Age, but Elena Bissette's family has lost most of its fortune. The Bissettes still own a home on fashionable Mackinac Island, and they spend summers there in hopes of introducing Elena to a wealthy suitor. Quickly tiring of the extravagant balls at the Grand Hotel, she spends her days walking along the island's rugged coastline. There she meets Chase, a young fisherman who invites her to watch the ships from an abandoned...
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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As the rest of the nation is embroiled in Civil War, the Amana Colonies remain peaceful. Amalie Wiese arrives in the newly built village of Amana in 1863 only to find that her betrothed, Friedrich, has left to fight with the Union army. Amalie tries to overcome her worries as she sets up a communal kitchen. She hopes that working alongside Friedrich's best friend will provide some comfort, but Matthias is abrupt and cold. Little does Amalie know that...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Center Point Large Print Edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young noblewoman hides French resistance fighters in tunnels beneath her home while Germans occupy her house. Seventy years later, her granddaughter visits the family's abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past"--
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Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Risking all their hopes and dreams on promises of fertile land in the Northwest, thousands set off on the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s. Despite the majestic landscape and daily opportunities for fireside chats, the trail was hardly the place these migrants expected to find romance. In these nine novellas, travelers on the wagon trains experience all the challenges and dangers of the trail. Some will lose much, settle down along the trail, and even...
17) The westward Christmas brides collection: 9 historical romances answer the call of the American West
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Take the journey into the American west alongside nine women who are chasing their dreams. Celebrate Christmas alongside these pioneers as love finds them in nine distinctly different romances penned by leading Christian fiction authors.
Publisher
Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
445 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Communities of plain faith people through the historic Midwest are the settings for nine sweet romances that come to light at Christmastime. Their lives may follow a plain path, but finding true love isn't simple for nine couples. Enjoy a simple Christmas, sweetened by love, as four romances develop among the Ohio River Valley quakers of the 1800s. Two Mennonite couples face influences from outside their old traditions. Two Amish couples from the...