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Author : Marion Kummerow

Publisher : Marion Kummerow

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 10,13 MB

Release : 2019-09-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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A prisoner of war. A guard with a conscience. A forbidden love that could cost them everything. From the bestselling author of Love and Resistance in World War Two, Marion Kummerow, comes a harrowing historical fiction novel based on true events about forbidden love and survival under the Nazi regime. Ursula Hermann is a simple woman who longs for the end of the war and the return of her husband from the Russian front. But fate has other plans for her. She is ordered to guard a prison for the enemies of the Reich, where she encounters Tom Westlake, a Royal Air Force pilot who has broken free from his chains. Ursula defies her duty and lets him go, risking her own life for a stranger. When Tom returns, wounded and in need of her help, Ursula looks the other way, risking her own life for a stranger. In a world where right and wrong have lost their meaning, Ursula must make a choice: obey the fatherland, or listen to her conscience. Inspired by true historical events, War Girl Ursula is the unforgettable story of one young woman's moral courage in the face of unspeakable suffering. Readers who loved War Girl Ursula: "What an amazing story. I literally couldn't put it down. My only complaint is the story ended way too soon. I need to know what happens! Well done!" - Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Excellent read! I didn't want to put it down." - Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This book is a great reflection of what happens when you ignore your moral compass because of blind loyalty. Ursulas journey reminds me of a quote I once read that stated “I love my country it’s the government I’m afraid of.”- Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you love to know more about the Germans in World War Two, this heartbreaking historical fiction about resistance, love and redemption is perfect for you. Follow fighter pilot hero Tom’s escape from a Nazi prison, hunted by the Gestapo who will send him to a Concentration camp, if they capture him. Perfect for fans of Soraya M. Lane, Fiona Valpy, Jenny Ashcroft, Petra Durst-Benning, Janet MacLeod Trotter, Jean Grainger, Catherine Hokin, Angela Petch, Roberta Kagan, Alexa Kang, Mark Sullivan, Liz Trenow, Ellie Midwood, Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger, Eoin Dempsey, Michael Reit, Lee Jackson, Siobhan Curham WWII, German Literature, Historical Fiction, Resistance, European Literature, Heartbreaking Story of Love and Redemption, Jewish and Holocaust History, Concentration Camps, Espionage, Nazi Party, Gestapo, Holocaust, Forbidden Love, female prison guard, fighter pilot hero, historical romance, military romance, moral dilemma, star-crossed love, forbidden love



Stones from the River

Author : Ursula Hegi

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 528 pages

File Size : 37,36 MB

Release : 2011-01-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1439144761

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From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.



The Girl With The Widow's Peak

Author : Ursula d’Abo

Publisher : Loose Chippings

Page : 139 pages

File Size : 46,94 MB

Release : 2014-06-30

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1907991107

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Reflections on thought-provoking quotations to stimulate and guide those who are interested by life's challenges. Living life can be a challenge. Which path should I follow? How should I respond? What should I do? Many similar questions face us almost daily, whether it is to do with our job, our relationships or life itself. In 'Walk With The Wise' Tim Binder and Ron Owen take thought-provoking quotations and offer their own ideas to stimulate and guide those who wish to understand life's challenges. Tim and Ron are used to helping people to make decisions regarding their lives; they have been mentors and life coaches over many years. They do not dish out answers, rather they assist people to ask themselves relevant questions, perhaps see life a little differently and find the answers which are right for them.



War Girl Ursula

Author : Marion Kummerow

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Page : pages

File Size : 48,65 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Electronic books

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The Red Shoe

Author : Ursula Dubosarsky

Publisher : Roaring Brook Press

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 35,11 MB

Release : 2007-05-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1429976217

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Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking place next door. Punctuated by the headlines of the times, The Red Shoe depicts how the large events of the world can impinge on ordinary lives. This is a novel to savor by one of Australia's most gifted writers for young people. "Dubosarsky proves masterful in conjuring and connecting images." - Publishers Weekly



The Shame of Survival

Author : Ursula Mahlendorf

Publisher : Penn State Press

Page : 347 pages

File Size : 16,46 MB

Release : 2015-10-13

Category : History

ISBN : 0271074922

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While we now have a great number of testimonials to the horrors of the Holocaust from survivors of that dark episode of twentieth-century history, rare are the accounts of what growing up in Nazi Germany was like for people who were reared to think of Adolf Hitler as the savior of his country, and rarer still are accounts written from a female perspective. Ursula Mahlendorf, born to a middle-class family in 1929, at the start of the Great Depression, was the daughter of a man who was a member of the SS at the time of his early death in 1935. For a long while during her childhood she was a true believer in Nazism—and a leader in the Hitler Youth herself. This is her vivid and unflinchingly honest account of her indoctrination into Nazism and of her gradual awakening to all the damage that Nazism had done to her country. It reveals why Nazism initially appealed to people from her station in life and how Nazi ideology was inculcated into young people. The book recounts the increasing hardships of life under Nazism as the war progressed and the chaos and turmoil that followed Germany’s defeat. In the first part of this absorbing narrative, we see the young Ursula as she becomes an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth and then goes on to a Nazi teacher-training school at fifteen. In the second part, which traces her growing disillusionment with and anger at the Nazi leadership, we follow her story as she flees from the Russian army’s advance in the spring of 1945, works for a time in a hospital caring for the wounded, returns to Silesia when it is under Polish administration, and finally is evacuated to the West, where she begins a new life and pursues her dream of becoming a teacher. In a moving Epilogue, Mahlendorf discloses how she learned to accept and cope emotionally with the shame that haunted her from her childhood allegiance to Nazism and the self-doubts it generated.



Life After Life

Author : Kate Atkinson

Publisher : Random House

Page : 628 pages

File Size : 17,77 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0552779687

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WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.



The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls

Author : Ursula Hegi

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 24,64 MB

Release : 2020-08-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1250156815

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"A joy to read." —New York Times Book Review From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi, a new novel about three mothers, set on the shores of the Nordsee, perfect for fans of Water for Elephants and The Light Between Oceans. In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus arrives on Nordstrand in Germany, to the delight of the island’s people. But after the show, a Hundred-Year Wave roars from the Nordsee and claims three young children. Three mothers are on the beach when it happens: Lotte, whose children are lost; Sabine, a Zirkus seamstress with her grown daughter; and Tilli, just a girl herself, who will give birth later that day at St. Margaret’s Home for Pregnant Girls. After the tragedy, Lotte’s husband escapes with the Zirkus, while she loses the will to care for their surviving son. Tilli steps in, bonding with him in a way she isn’t allowed to with her own baby, taken away at birth. Sabine, struggling to keep her childlike daughter safe in the world, forms a complicated friendship with Lotte. But the mothers' fragile trio is threatened when Lotte and her husband hatch a dangerous plan to reunite their family, and Tilli and Sabine must try to find a way to pull them back to reality. As full of joy and beauty as it is of pain, and told with the luminous power that has made Ursula Hegi a beloved bestselling author for decades, The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls is a shining testament to the ways in which women hold each other up in the most unexpected of circumstances.



Salt Dancers

Author : Ursula Hegi

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 42,21 MB

Release : 2011-05-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1439144109

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Salt Dancers is at once a brilliant portrait of an American family, a story of the secrets families guard, and a moving account of one woman's journey back to a past filled with elusive memories and suppressed rage. Why did Julia's mother disappear one day without so much as a word? How did a loving father who taught her such a beautiful thing as the salt dance become such a terrifying and abusive presence? These are the questions which Julia must confront when she returns to Spokane, Washington, after an absence of twenty-three years. Salt Dancers, a superbly written novel, is a poignant and truthful chronicle of self-discovery and the power of resurrection.



Floating in My Mother's Palm

Author : Ursula Hegi

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 26,47 MB

Release : 2011-01-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1439144532

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Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, Trudi Montag, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mother's Palm first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.