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Narrated by:
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Barbara Rosenblat
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Carlotta Brentan
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Xe Sands
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By:
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Juliet Blackwell
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In Nazi-occupied Paris, a talented artisan must fight for her life by designing for her enemies. From New York Times best-selling author Juliet Blackwell comes an extraordinary story about holding on to hope when all seems lost.
Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must focus on mere survival - until they are betrayed to the secret police and arrested for his political beliefs. When Capucine saves herself from deportation to Auschwitz by highlighting her connections to Parisian design houses, she is sent to a little-known prison camp located in the heart of Paris, within the Lévitan department store.
There, hundreds of prisoners work to sort through, repair, and put on display the massive quantities of art, furniture, and household goods looted from Jewish homes and businesses. Forced to wait on German officials and their wives and mistresses, Capucine struggles to hold her tongue in order to survive, remembering happier days spent in the art salons, ateliers, and jazz clubs of Montmartre in the 1920s.
Capucine’s estranged daughter, Mathilde, remains in the care of her conservative paternal grandparents, who are prospering under the Nazi occupation. But after her mother is arrested and then a childhood friend goes missing, the usually obedient Mathilde finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of Paris’s Résistance fighters. As her mind opens to new ways of looking at the world, Mathilde also begins to see her unconventional mother in a different light.
When an old acquaintance arrives to go “shopping” at the Lévitan department store on the arm of a Nazi officer and secretly offers to help Capucine get in touch with Mathilde, this seeming act of kindness could have dangerous consequences.
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1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford’s seemingly dazzling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill Bookshop in Mayfair, hoping to make ends meet, and discovers a new life.
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An engaging tale full of warmth and wisdom, The Quilter’s Apprentice is the first novel in best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s Elm Creek Quilts series. Sarah McClure takes a job helping elderly Sylvia Compson prepare her family estate for sale. Sylvia, a master quilter, agrees to share the tricks of the trade with Sarah. As the two women grow close, Sylvia shares her family’s tragic past, compelling Sarah to look at her own life more closely.
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On any particular day, thousands upon thousands of people pass through New York City's Grand Central Terminal, through the whispering gallery, beneath the ceiling of stars, and past the information booth and its beckoning four-faced clock, to whatever destination is calling them. It is a place where people come to say hello and good-bye. And each person has a story to tell.
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Grand Central: Memories
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Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, 21-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge
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This isn't my favorite but entertaining
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It's the spring of 1924, and Lady Helena Montagu-Douglas-Parr has just arrived in France. On the mend after a near-fatal illness, she is ready to embrace the restless, heady allure of the City of Lights. Her parents have given her one year to live with her eccentric aunt in Paris, and Helena means to make the most of her time. She's quickly drawn into the world of the Lost Generation and its circle of American expatriates, and, with their encouragement, she finds the courage to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.
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A pleasant trip to 1924 Paris
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Simone Fleurier is wrenched from her home on a Provencal lavender farm at the age of 14 after the accidental death of her father. Forced to become a maid at the boarding house of her Aunt Augustine in Marseilles, Simone's life is hard and impoverished. But one of her aunt's boarders, the beautiful Camille Casal, a star at the local music hall, gives Simone a dream: that one day she too will be a famous singer and dancer.
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The first time violinist Julia Ansdell picked up the "Incendio Waltz" in a darkened antique shop in Rome, she knew it was a strikingly unusual composition. The minor key and complex feverish arpeggios have a life of their own. But when she plays the piece, Julia blacks out and awakens to find her small daughter implicated in acts of surprising violence. When she travels to Venice to find the previous owner of the music, she uncovers a heart-stoppingly dark secret....
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Somewhat off-key
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Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
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Point of View of characters, past and present collide
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The Women in the Castle
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Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined - an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times notable book The Hazards of Good Breeding.
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Skating On The Thin Ice Of Life
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In Russian Winter, the beautiful debut novel by critically acclaimed writer Daphne Kalotay, a famed ballerina’s jewelry auction in Boston reveals long-held secrets of love and family, friendship and rivalry, harkening back to Stalinist Russia. Called “tender, passionate, and moving” by Jenna Blum, the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us, Russian Winter is a perfect choice for fans of the novels of Debra Dean (The Madonnas of Leningrad), Ann Patchett (Bel Canto), and Ian McEwan (Atonement).
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Read this review; Sophisticated and wonderful!
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Zoe Ardelay receives astonishing and unwelcome news: she has been chosen to become the king's fifth wife. Forced to go to the royal city, she manages to slip away and hide on the shores of the mighty river. It's there that Zoe realizes she is a coru prime, ruled by the elemental sign of water. She must return to the palace, not as an unwilling bride for the king, but a woman with power in her own right.
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Really pleasant
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- Rachel b
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Stunning
I absolutely loved this book. The history of the work camps, the knowledge & explanation of Jewish holidays and rituals, the relationship between mother and daughter, the lost loves that fill us with regret and sadness..I loved the whole story. Mathilde is a really interesting study of the upper classes who knew very little of the hunger & deprivation that was happening in the cities. Capucine is a really interesting character as a whole. I've read a lot of WWII historical fiction & this has been one of my favorites.
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- JackieHJ
- 04-24-24
History Should Never be Forgotten
History should be remembered so the atrocities committed will never be repeated and the strength of those who endured will be honored. This book was difficult to listen to and yet so full of the spirit of the survivors of WWII. I enjoyed the history of Paris and was as shocked as always by the inhumanity of Hitlers followers. This was a very riveting book and addressed so many different facets of the war and the effects they had on people of such different backgrounds and cultures. I am so glad I chose to listen!
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- MamawTexas
- 03-27-23
Ms. Blackwell never disappoints
The story was moving and told the story of Paris during WWII in a different way, by uniquely explaining examples, of the different levels of collaboration by the Parisians trying to survive the war.
But at the same time, it also had examples of Resistance and demonstrated those were always inherently dangerous if not fatal.
I did enjoy the story of Mathilda & Capucine and the difference of a mother/daughter separated by love, family, war and the Nazis.
It must be very difficult to narrate a book with so many different characters, language, ages and accents…so well done.
Thanks to everyone who made this production possible.
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- 01-05-24
Evil Triumphs When Good Men Do Nothing
Told from the perspective of three Parisian women during post-WW1 through post-WW2. This book addresses what the question of what is a collaborator and what it means to try to survive in Nazi-occupied Paris. War, and the people living through it, is complicated.
I'm glad that the author finally chose to address the Nazi work camps... those hidden camps that processed goods stolen from the houses of the "deported" undesirables for purchase by wealthy Nazis... those who survived who chose not to publicize their maltreatment in the shadow of the more horrific death camps.
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- Amanda
- 05-21-22
Oh so good
Loved the history and want to now learn more about the nazis in Paris. Loved the ending
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- Ella
- 04-03-24
Awakening
There’s so much to this book, i had a hard time deciding the title. I selected awakening due to truths revealed and characters waking up to the truth. This book touched on so many issues in the world even now, ideas were thoughtfully woven together to create a delightful read.
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- Tracy Michele Lockridge
- 05-23-23
Captivating!
I loved the different characters in the performance. This book makes me want to read more historical novels.
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- T.S.
- 12-13-23
Excellent
An unexpectedly unique take on WW2 historical fiction. Thoroughly enjoyed the story. The narration was outstanding. I particularly loved the addition of Antoinette, who provided an outside POV of the other main characters.
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- Jamie
- 06-26-24
Excellent
Both narrators were excellent and had wonderful French accents. I really enjoyed listening to them both.
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- pen
- 07-22-22
Terrible book
I couldn't wait for this book to end! The narration was just awful, especially Capucine's character. She mumbled so badly that I had trouble understanding her. The author highjacked WW2 in an effort to inflict 21st century social issues on her audience. Big waste of my time!
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