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Historical Fiction December 2018
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The Enemy of My Enemy by W. E. B GriffinSpecial Agent James Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals and has been lying low ever since, but his vacation is about to end. Somebody--Odessa, the NKGB, the Hungarian Secret Police?--has broken the criminals out of jail, and he must track them down again.
In addition, evidence has surfaced that Heinrich Himmler had stashed away a fortune to build a secret religio and the money is still out there in the hands of Odessa, an infamous organization that seems to have acquired a surprising--and troubling--ally.
Cronley is fast finding out that the phrase "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" can mean a lot of different things, and that it is not always clear which people he can trust and which are out to kill him.
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White Rose Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have taken away both her father and her brother and left her with no reason to live, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform. Franka takes him to her family’s isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents. When it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman’s true identity. Hunted by the Gestapo, they must learn to trust each other and join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever.
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Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in affluent middle-class Berlin with her judgemental, while Erich is an only child living a lush rural life near Leipzig, tending beehives. Drawn together as Germany's hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, the children find temporary refuge in an abandoned theater amid the rubble of Berlin. Watching over them is the wish child, the enigmatic narrator of their story. He sees what they see, he feels what they feel, yet his is a voice that comes from deep inside the ruins of a nation's dream.
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Young Chicago socialite Anna Nicholson can't seem to focus on her upcoming marriage. The new information she's learned about her birth mother continues to pull at her, and she hires Pinkerton detectives to help her find the truth, but Anna soon discovers that some secrets are better left hidden.
Then unflattering stories about Anna are leaked by someone who would love to see her disgraced and her engagement broken. As Anna tries to share her faith with her society friends, she learns that her desire to seek God's purpose for her life isn't as simple as she had hoped.
When things are at their darkest, Anna turns to her grandmother, Geesje de Jonge, back in Holland, Michigan, who only hopes that her wisdom can help her granddaughter through the turmoil she faces.
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