Melanie Dobson
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping split-time novel, Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker woman who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrenees, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Elias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart. More...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and-decades later-a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Daniel Knight was thirteen, he and ten-year-old Brigitte Berthold escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival. For more than seventy years he has vowed to find Brigitte. Now a wealthy old man, his final hope in finding Brigitte rests with Quenby Vaughn, an American journalist working in London. Quenby is wary at the idea of teaming...
Author
Series
Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
It's the height of the Gilded Age, but Elena Bissette's family has lost most of its fortune. The Bissettes still own a home on fashionable Mackinac Island, and they spend summers there in hopes of introducing Elena to a wealthy suitor. Quickly tiring of the extravagant balls at the Grand Hotel, she spends her days walking along the island's rugged coastline. There she meets Chase, a young fisherman who invites her to watch the ships from an abandoned...
Author
Series
Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In a divided town durng a dangerous era, who can be trusted? Anna Brent risks everything for the runaway slaves hidden in her home, but is she willing to risk her heart to the newcomer who is fighting for their freedom?
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A courageous young noblewoman risks her life to hide French resistance fighters; seventy years later, her granddaughter visits the family's abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past. Gisele Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life. Tunnels snake through the hill under her family's medieval chateau in Normandy. Now, with Hitler's army bearing down, her brother and several friends are hiding in the tunnels, resisting the...
Author
Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, the local Amana villagers welcome the father and daughter into their peaceful society. Liesel, a young Amana woman, nurses Cassie back to health, and the Homestead elders offer Jacob work. But Jacob's growing interest in Liesel complicates...
Author
Publisher
Waterfall Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
As elegant as the Sacramento residence she operates, Isabelle Labrie keeps her past concealed. Its 1853, the heyday of the California Gold Rush. Isabelle is full of hope, staking her claim on the citys refined clientele and her future on a sweethearts promise to marry her when he returns from the gold fields. Then, unexpected guests, fugitive slaves seeking safe passage to the North, force her to confront her past, reconsider her path,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
They were strangers when they married, but they both long for love. Christian and Susanna had never met when they were chosen by lot to marry in a Moravian community in Germany. But in 1755, they traveled with a dozen other newly married couples to Nazareth, Pennsylvania, to help establish a Moravian borough and share their faith with the surrounding Indian nations. Susanna's heart warms toward her new husband even after she learns that he had
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