| Description |
707 pages (large print) ; 22 cm |
| Physical Medium |
large print rda |
| Series |
Thorndike Press large print peer picks.
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| Summary |
"On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort in France grows and she eventually comes to hear about the dire situation at the Ravensbruck all-female concentration camp. At the same time, Kasia's carefree youth is quickly slipping away, only to be replaced by a fervor for the Polish resistance movement. Through Ravensbruck - and the horrific atrocities taking place there told in part by an infamous German surgeon, Herta Oberheuser - the two women's lives will converge in unprecedented ways and a novel of redemption and hope emerges that is breathtaking in scope and depth."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction.
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Nazis -- Europe -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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Large type books.
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Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Large type books.
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| ISBN |
9781410491732 (hardcover) |
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1410491730 (hardcover) |
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