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  • The Nanny Outside the Gates
    Shari J. Ryan
    Auschwitz, 1944. Halina clutches the baby to her chest, cuddling her close for warmth. She must keep moving. Her heart pounds as she races through the thick trees. If she’s caught, this is the end-for both of them...Walking to work at the orphanage she was raised in, Halina tries to ignore the imposing gates of Auschwitz nearby. She has one dream: to survive the war and find ou...
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    13,56 €

  • The Singer Behind the Wire
    Shari J. Ryan
    Auschwitz, 1943. Ella tries to ignore the coughs and crying, the whispered prayers. Her eyelids grow heavier, but then a melody floats though the block as if on a breeze. Her lips open on a gasp, joy making her heart sing even as it shatters. She would know that voice anywhere... Sitting bolt upright, Ella rubs at her eyes and concentrates on the music. Is she dreaming? She’d f...
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    12,43 €

  • The Family Behind the Walls
    Shari J. Ryan
    Germany, 1943. Jordanna cries out desperately to her mother, tears spilling down her cheeks. She is being torn one way, her parents another. And in Jordanna’s terrified, wide brown eyes, there is only one question: Will I ever see you again?Poland: Day in and day out, fifteen-year-old Jordanna holds tight to the hands of her siblings as they’re forced into back-breaking labor. ...
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    12,51 €

  • My Husband’s Past
    Shari J. Ryan
    My best friend disappeared twenty years ago. I thought she was dead. But today I’ve received a message that makes my heart stop. It says it’s from Izzy. And she’s blaming my new husband for her disappearance...I stare at the email in horror. I’ve only just managed to put what happened to Izzy behind me. My life is so different now. I have two perfect children, and the perfect h...
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    12,43 €

  • The Nurse Behind the Gates
    Shari J. Ryan
    Dachau, 1942. Emilie has been told she’s here to nurse evil men. But the first patient she sees in the cold, dark room is hauntingly familiar. Her first love is not wicked. He couldn’t be. What is he doing here? Emilie’s heart stops as she takes in her childhood sweetheart hunched in a tattered prisoner’s uniform, the light lost from his face. Her new husband, Otto, said this w...
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    12,33 €

  • The Perfect Nanny
    Shari J. Ryan
    'My baby! You stole my baby!' Lara Smith is hysterical, her red lipstick smeared. A teddy lies abandoned in the empty crib. But I wasn’t hired to look after a baby. I didn’t even know this nursery existed... Lara’s husband calls the police and screams: 'The nanny has taken our little girl.' I’m frozen in shock. This is impossible. I was only meant to be looking after the Smiths...
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    13,54 €

  • The Glovemaker’s Daughter
    Shari J. Ryan
    Paris, 1943. German soldiers drag me out onto the cobbled street and push me towards the waiting truck. I force myself to face forward as tears stream down my cheeks. If I look back, they’ll know. I can’t let them find my baby girl... Raya bends over a delicate glove in her beloved shop in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. It’s the only place she still feels safe. When the Nazis ...
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    12,43 €

  • The Homemaker
    Shari J. Ryan
    I pull back the blanket to take another peek at my beautiful baby boy. My heart flatlines. He isn’t there. 'Where is he?' I cry, my whole body trembling. But my husband just shakes his head. 'Darling... we don’t have a baby.' What is he talking about? Stumbling to my feet, I look frantically at the highchair, the playmat in the corner, the sofa. I need to find my little boy. Li...
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    11,40 €

  • The Stolen Twins
    Shari J. Ryan
    Auschwitz, 1944: 'You can’t leave me,' I whisper, my hand trembling as I reach for her cheek. 'You can’t. We’re in this life together, always, just you and me.' This utterly heartbreaking yet beautifully hopeful World War Two page-turner tells the story of identical twin sisters in Auschwitz. Born minutes apart, Arina and Nora have never left each other’s side-until now... The ...
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    11,56 €

  • The Maid’s Secret
    Shari J. Ryan
    Czechoslovakia, 1942: 'Please don’t take him,' I plead to the Nazis.'I love you, Mila,' Ben says, hoarsely. 'So much. Forever.''Ben!' I shout as the soldiers pull him away, my heart thudding. 'I love you. Please, come back.' I’m screaming at the top of my lungs as the world turns black around me.In the mountains of Bohemia, Mila, a Romani, works as a maid for an aristocratic Je...
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    13,45 €

  • The Lieutenant’s Girl
    Shari J. Ryan
    Pearl Harbor, 1941. War planes hurtle across the horizon, skimming the clouds. Gunpowder fills the air as the earth shatters. Everett’s hands cup my cheeks. 'If I lose you, Elizabeth, please know that the time I’ve spent with you has been worth every second I’ve been alive.' On the fateful day that sirens rend the air and warplanes fly over the harbor, Elizabeth and Everett had...
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    12,33 €

  • The Girl with the Diary
    Shari J. Ryan
    'What if you never come back?' I asked.'I will find you, Amelia. I promise I will find you.''What if you die trying?' Nazi-occupied Prague, 1942: Amelia is hiding in her closet when flashlights blind her and she’s captured by the SS. Out on the cobblestone street, she is shoved onto a freight train with hundreds of others. Hours pass as they travel in darkness. Arriving in Ther...
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    11,42 €

  • The Soldier’s Letters
    Shari J. Ryan
    'Survive for as long as you can, fight until you can’t fight any longer, and if this war ever ends, I want you to run as far from here as you can and never look back...' Nazi-occupied Prague, 1941: On a foggy winter’s day, a solider called Charlie is ordered to murder an elderly Jewish woman. He refuses, but that doesn’t stop another Nazi shooting her. As the woman’s daughter c...
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    10,44 €

  • The Prison Child
    Shari J. Ryan
    How will we get by the guards? It seems impossible. Yet we will be dead by the end of the week if we don’t-my precious girl and I have nothing to lose by trying. Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, 1943: In Theresienstadt concentration camp, a brown-eyed baby girl is born in darkness, surrounded by barbed wire. The innocent new-born has no hope of surviving-unless, by some kind of mi...
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    10,43 €

  • The Doctor’s Daughter
    Shari J. Ryan
    Auschwitz, 1941: It was her father’s job to save the lives of the SS. But she chose to risk everything and save the lives of prisoners. In Nazi-occupied Poland, Sofia cannot look her father in the eye. Sofia’s mother, her papa’s cherished wife, is Jewish-how dare he work as a doctor for the SS? She cannot forgive him, even if the bargain was made to spare their lives. In the mi...
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    11,40 €