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Her desire for distraction reignites a passion for a mysterious portrait she first saw as a young girl-a painting of a young violinist with piercing blue eyes. In her search for the painting, Sera crosses paths with William Hanover-the grandson of a wealthy California real estate mogul-who may be the key to uncovering the hidden masterpiece. Together Sera and William slowly unravel the story behind the painting's subject: Austrian violinist Adele...
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In turn-of-the-century America, a young girl dreams of a world beyond the family farm. With little more than her wit and a cigar box of treasures, Mable leaves all she knows for the limitless marvels of the Chicago World's Fair. There, a chance encounter triggers her destiny--a life with famed showman John Ringling. A quarter century later, Lady Rosamund Easling boards a ship to America as a last adventure before her arranged marriage. There, she...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2018.
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Large print edition.
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543 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Ellie Carver arrives at her grandmother's bedside expecting to find her silently slipping away. Instead, the beloved woman begins speaking. Of a secret past and castle ruins forgotten by time. Of a hidden chapel that served as a rendezvous for the French Resistance in World War II. Of lost love and deep regret.
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Present Day -- With a new art gallery and a fairytale wedding planned, Sera James feels she's stumbled into a charmed life -- until a brutal legal battle against her fiance threatens to destroy it all. 1942 -- Kája Makovský left her half-Jewish family behind when she escaped occupied Prague. Now a reporter In England, Kaja risks her life to smuggle her family to freedom. These women will connect across a century through one little girl.
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Harry Houdini s one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. But someone wants to claim them ... or silence her before she can reveal them on her own. Boston, 1926. Jenny Wren Lockhart is a bold eccentric even for a female vaudevillian. As notorious for her inherited wealth and gentleman s dress as she is for her unsavory upbringing in the back halls of a vaudeville theater, Wren lives in a world that challenges...
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When art historian Keira Foley is hired to authenticate a painting at a centuries-old East Suffolk manor, she hopes this is just the thing to get her career back on track. But from the time she begins working alongside rumored art thief Emory Scott, she's left with more questions than answers. Could this lost painting of Queen Victoria be a duplicate of the original masterpiece, and if so, who is the artist? As Keira begins to unravel the mystery...
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When Laine Forrester travels to France to attend her longtime friend's vineyard wedding, she expects to find a bride on the brink of a fairy-tale life. But after a series of unforeseen setbacks--a devastating diagnosis, a castle restoration put on hold, and the emergence of deep-seated family dynamics that threaten to derail the new couple's fledgling marriage--it seems the storybook life Laine had imagined for her friend--and once, for herself--is...
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"A prima ballerina. Two American medics. And a young Jewish girl with no name... At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events. Rome, 1943. With the fall of Italy's Fascist government and the Nazi regime occupying the streets of Rome, British ballerina Julia Bradbury is stranded and forced to take refuge at a hospital on Tiber Island....
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"Based on true accounts of how Parisiennes resisted the Nazi occupation in World War II--from fashion houses to the city streets--comes a story of two courageous women who risked everything to fight an evil they couldn't abide. Paris, 1939. Maison Chanel has closed, thrusting haute couture dressmaker Lila de Laurent out of the world of high fashion as Nazi soldiers invade the streets and the City of Lights slips into darkness. Lila's life is now a...
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