Polly Stone
1) Sarah's key
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel{u2019} d{u2019}Hiv{u2019} roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel{u2019} d{u2019}Hiv{u2019}s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past....
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France, 1939. In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old...
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"Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband is fighting on the front lines when she is conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters. Twice a day, she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, the Wolf's Lair, to eat his meals before he does forming a strange sisterhood"--
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To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century.
5) Sarah's Key
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Macmillan Audio
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2008
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Now a major motion picture!
From beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay come's her celebrated novel Sarah's Key.
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within
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New World Library
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2015
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Our children can be our greatest teachers. Parenting expert Susan Stiffelman writes that the very behaviors that push our buttons - refusing to cooperate or ignoring our requests - can help us build awareness and shed old patterns, allowing us to raise our children with greater ease and enjoyment. Filled with practical advice, powerful exercises, and fascinating stories from her clinical work, Parenting with Presence teaches us how to become the parents...
