
The Glass Château
A Novel
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Raphael Corkhill
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From the critically acclaimed author of Universe of Two and The Baker’s Secret, a novel of hope, healing, and the redemptive power of art, set against the turmoil of post-World War II France and inspired by the life of Marc Chagall
“[A] spellbinding fable of sanctuary, art, and recovery.”—Booklist (starred review)
World War II is over. Amid jubilation in the streets of France, however, there are throngs of people stunned by the recovery work ahead. Every bridge, road, and rail line, every church and school and hospital, has been destroyed. Disparate factions—from Communists, to Resistance fighters, to those who supported appeasement of the Nazis—must somehow unite and rebuild their devastated country.
Asher lost his family during the war, and in revenge served as an assassin in the Resistance. Burdened by grief and guilt, he wanders through the blasted countryside, stunned by what has become of his life. When he arrives at le Château Guerin, all he seeks is a decent meal. Instead he finds a sanctuary, an oasis even though everyone there is as damaged as him. The people there are calming themselves, and recovering inch by inch, by turning sand into stained glass, and then into windows for the bombed cathedrals of France.
The chateau is a volatile place, and these former warriors are as hard, and fragile, as glass. Each man carries secrets from the war too—Asher has chosen to hide his Jewish faith so he will not be expelled by the devout Catholics who own the chateau. But all of the damaged men are guided by women of courage and affection. And Asher turns out to have a gift for making windows. As the secrets of the chateau’s residents become known one by one, they experience more heated conflict and greater challenges. Yet when they work together in common purpose, they put their fighting aside. And as Asher recovers, he finds a way to turn the recovery of broken men into the healing of a broken country.
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Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America. Life here is as intense as the sun, every sight, smell and sound overwhelming to the senses in a city filled with extraordinary characters. It’s a world away from the trouble back home—and Josie loves it. Seventy years later, another new arrival in the intoxicating port city, Zoe, is struggling—with her marriage, her baby daughter and her new life as an expat in an unfamiliar place.
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Sweet and profound
- By EYM on 11-15-21
By: Fiona Valpy
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Her Hidden Genius
- A Novel
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider - brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets. Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture - one more after thousands - she can unlock the building blocks of life.
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Loved this!
- By coffee shop owner on 02-03-22
By: Marie Benedict
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The Book of Thorns
- By: Hester Fox
- Narrated by: Ell Potter, Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and out of options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleon’s Grande Armée. As a naturalist, her mysterious ability to heal any wound with herbal mixtures invites awe amongst the soldiers…and suspicion.
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Another great one from Ms. Fox
- By audrey melton on 04-11-24
By: Hester Fox
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The Daughter's Tale
- A Novel
- By: Armando Lucas Correa
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the south of France, where the widow of an old friend of her husband’s has agreed to take her in. Along the way, a refugee ship headed for Cuba offers another chance at escape and there, at the dock, Amanda is forced to make an impossible choice that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
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Beautiful and heartbreaking
- By INGRID on 07-06-19
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Women in the Kitchen
- Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today
- By: Anne Willan
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook writer, teacher, and founder of La Varenne Cooking School in Paris, explores the lives and work of women cookbook authors whose essential books have defined cooking over the past 300 years. Beginning with the first published cookbook by Hannah Woolley in 1661 to the early colonial days to the transformative popular works by Fannie Farmer, Irma Rombauer, Julia Child, Edna Lewis, Marcella Hazan, and up to Alice Waters working today.
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a glancing survey of cookbooks and their authors
- By Ellen Sandler on 10-12-20
By: Anne Willan
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Cartier's Hope
- A Novel
- By: M. J. Rose
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, and Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man’s world of serious journalism. Shortly after the world-famous Hope Diamond is acquired for a record sum, Vera begins investigating rumors about schemes by its new owner, jeweler Pierre Cartier, to manipulate its value. Vera is determined to find the truth behind the notorious diamond and its legendary curses.
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Strong Hero Who Happens To Be Female
- By LAF on 03-15-20
By: M. J. Rose
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Spellbreaker
- Spellbreaker, Book 1
- By: Charlie N. Holmberg
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Joel Froomkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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The orphaned Elsie Camden learned as a girl that there were two kinds of wizards in the world: those who pay for the power to cast spells and those, like her, born with the ability to break them. But as an unlicensed magic user, her gift is a crime. Commissioned by an underground group known as the Cowls, Elsie uses her spellbreaking to push back against the aristocrats and help the common man. Elite magic user Bacchus Kelsey is one elusive spell away from his mastership when he catches Elsie breaking an enchantment. To protect her secret, Elsie strikes a bargain.
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Interesting read/listen
- By Roderica Ruddle on 12-21-20
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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
- By: Holly Ringland
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family’s story.
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Beautiful story
- By Julia Blackburn on 08-19-23
By: Holly Ringland
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These Tangled Vines
- A Novel
- By: Julianne MacLean
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret - even from the father who raised her. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way...until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance - along with two half siblings.
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Really enjoyed this story, but it was sad...
- By Debbie on 07-02-21
By: Julianne MacLean
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Lilith
- A Novel
- By: Eric Rickstad
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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After her son, Lydan, suffers traumatic injuries in a school shooting, single mom Elisabeth Ross grows enraged at men in power. If they won’t do anything to help end this epidemic of violence, she will. Believing it’s her destiny, she sets out to awaken the world to the cowards these men are and commits her own shocking act of violence.
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Is Revenge Worth It?
- By Stevan Miller on 04-30-25
By: Eric Rickstad
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The Librarian of Crooked Lane
- The Glass Library, Book 1
- By: C.J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians, she's skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she's just an ordinary woman who loves books. She seeks answers from a member of the most prominent family of magicians, but she quickly learns that finding the truth won't be easy, especially when he turns out to be as artless as her, and more compelling and dangerous than books.
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Fun to be Back
- By Meg on 10-12-22
By: C.J. Archer
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The Highgate Cemetery Murder
- A Tate and Bell Mystery, Book 1
- By: Irina Shapiro
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Hours later, the man’s cold body lies in the city mortuary, alongside the woman he couldn’t save. And his sister, unconventional nurse Gemma Tate, tracks down troubled police inspector Sebastian Bell to unravel the truth. Sebastian has enough pressure to solve the murder of an aristocratic heiress without Gemma meddling in his case. But the cryptic sentences she brings him from her brother’s notebook could be a crucial lead. If only they knew what “milky way” meant.
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Not for the squeamish
- By Kristyn Rose on 06-29-24
By: Irina Shapiro
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American Magic
- A Novel
- By: Zach Fehst
- Narrated by: Corey Brill
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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When an enigmatic message uploaded to the dark web turns out to contain an ancient secret giving regular people the power to do impossible things, like levitate cars or make themselves invisible, American government officials panic. They know the demo videos on YouTube and instructions for incantations could turn from fantastical amusement to dangerous weapon at the drop of the hat, and they scramble to keep the information out of the wrong hands. They tap Ben Zolstra, an ex-CIA field operative whose history with the agency is conflicted at best.
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It’s a shame the story could’ve been so much better!
- By Kindle Customer on 07-31-23
By: Zach Fehst
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- Tina L Anagnos
- 03-23-24
A new perspective of the afterlife of WWII in France
I’m curious to do research about the restoration of church & synagogue windows after WWII in France & Germany
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- Coolmom
- 02-22-24
Great ending
This book started out a little slow, but had a wonderful story line and ending.
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- Samiam
- 07-07-23
Brilliant portrayal of the capacity to heal.
Something about this book struck a chord that resonated with me on a deeper level. It will stay with me for a while - and in a good way. I had never before considered how the trauma of war affected those who survived on so many levels. We all need a safe haven where light is shed on our wounds and healing can take place.
I will be looking at stained glass with ‘new eyes’ from here forward.
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- Mwend
- 11-16-23
Beautiful Descriptive Writing
I love descriptive writing, but at times I found myself wishing this author could have pared it down a bit. Beautiful story of redemption, with the ideas that no one should be defined solely by their most despicable act(s) and that we have a loving, forgiving God.
I’d I could have given 3.5 stars (vs. 3), I would have.
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