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When the German ship the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk in port in early 1945 it had over 9000 civilian refugees, including children, on board. Nearly all were drowned. Ruta Sepetys imagines the story of a handful of these people as they trek across Germany, bound together only by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land. From the gentle wisdom of the old man known as the Shoe Poet to the bravery of Emilia,...
2) The exiled
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Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Esther Crossland is a wanted criminal. Four months ago, she destroyed the cruise ship Arcadia in a desperate bid for freedom. Now its inhabitants are in exile on the edge of what used to be the United States - living in sprawling make-shift shelters. Esther is trapped, and fellow rebel Nik Lall is miles away, in hiding. Neither want to admit to their true feelings about each other. When the camp faces annihilation from the ruthless Admiral Janek,...
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Dr. Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years' confinement, which has driven him to the edge of madness. He is "recalled to life" by the joyous reconciliation with his daughter Lucie, and returns with her to England. But Manette's maniacal obsession with shoemaking, developed during his long incarceration, is not quite over, for there are dark secrets surrounding his "crime" that have yet to emerge; secrets involving the reprehensible...