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Reminiscent of Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife, this stunning novel draws from true accounts to shine a light on a period of Holland’s darkest history and bravest heroes. 1942. As war rips through the heart of Holland, childhood friends Josie van Rees and Eliese Linden partner with a few daring citizens to rescue Eliese’s son and hundreds of other Jewish children who await deportation in a converted theater in Amsterdam. But amid their resistance work, Josie and Eliese’s dangerous secrets could derail their friendship and their entire mission.

If I return to Savannah, to Darling House - I’ll die there. Either the curse I accidentally unleashed on my family will catch up with me, or I'll flatline at the sight of the man I left behind - Ephraim Callaghan. But when my grandfather's cryptic will leads to an arranged marriage, Ephraim and I are trapped together in Darling House, my ancestral haunted mansion by the sea. As our passion rekindles, we must overcome the past and decode a dark family secret surrounding the glass, a century-old murder mystery, and the restless ghosts that remain.

Millions of people know the name of the iconic country music artist, George Jones, but few people know that behind the man and his golden voice was a strong, feisty woman who not only saved his life from cocaine addiction, alcoholism, and other abusive and self-destructive behaviors, but also was instrumental in saving his soul. For the first time, in Playin' Possum, Nancy Jones reveals the true “insider” perspectives and little known poignant and as well as humorous stories about the country music icon.

Sea Glass Memories transports you to a world of deep emotions, vivid imagery, and unforgettable storytelling. With a narrative style reminiscent of blockbuster novels like Water For Elephants and The Notebook, readers will be enchanted and challenged to ponder life's most thought-provoking questions. ~ AuthorsReading.com A grieving English teacher. A handsome actor. A new start with fresh possibilities . . .. but the past is in the way. Two years ago, Elena Jeffries lost both loves of her life in Boston. Now she is starting over in beautiful Seahaven, located on the idyllic Maine coast and ...

Alone in the desert to wait for justice to be done, or at least started, Anders Brolly must begin a journey that will alter who he is, forever. It is not enough to be powerful, one must be wise and good in equal measure. Anders knows that this won't be an easy feat for someone like himself. Monsters are, rarely, truly ever good, after all.

The Fifth Glass A crack in the goblet lets the light in... In a kingdom where magic flows like wine through silver goblets, servant Corin knows his place: pour, bow, disappear. For generations, enchanted drinks have bound nobles to power and servants to silence, maintaining a perfect order where memories can be erased with a toast. But when Corin accidentally drinks from the mysterious Fifth Glass—a vessel meant only for those born to rule—he absorbs forbidden memories and magic that no servant should possess. Now hunted by the Royal Enchanter Velleren, Corin finds an unlikely ally in ...

A courageous young noblewoman risks her life to hide French resistance fighters; 70 years later, her granddaughter visits the family’s abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past. Gisèle 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 German occupation of France. But when German soldiers take over the family’s château, Gisèle is forced to host them as well.

A mind is a dangerous thing to rewrite. At first, journalist Nadia Sterling thought the whispers in her skull were trauma. Echoes. A legacy of war zones and lies. She was wrong. The hum isn’t in her head, it’s in her blood. When a source leaks a string of ritualistic murders encoded with neural audio frequencies, Nadia’s investigation spirals into a conspiracy older than memory. Elites across the globe, politicians, CEOs, even children, are being rewritten by sound. Controlled. Or worse... awakened. As shards of her own past surface, surgery scars, blackouts, a forgotten asylum, Nadia...

In war-torn Prague, a Jewish librarian named Elias is forced to catalog looted books for the Nazis—until he begins hiding resistance messages inside their margins. Decades later, historian Anika stumbles upon one of his cryptic codes and is pulled into a race to uncover a secret the world tried to bury. As she follows Elias’s trail through forgotten archives, erased names, and hidden rooms, she must confront not only a nation’s complicity—but her own place in history. The Archivist’s Shadow is a haunting literary thriller about the war on memory, the power of silence, and the ...

Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time—abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.

The Glass Archive The key opened the door. Now, it unlocks something far worse. Still reeling from the revelations of her husband’s secret life and the conspiracy that led to his death, Elise Archer finds herself haunted by memories that don’t belong to her. The mysterious key that once unraveled his secrets now leads to something even darker—a hidden archive encoded with minds, lives, and identities rewritten by design. When a message from beyond the loop pulls her into a secret network of survivors, Elise must navigate a chilling reality: she was never the only subject. Each puzzle ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams is one of the three most important American dramatists of the 20th century, alongside Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill. Acclaimed for their lyrical language, dark themes and vivid portrayal of the American South, his works have spawned several Oscar-winning films and been translated and performed worldwide. Collected here are some of the best, beginning with the play that launched Williams' career: The Glass Menagerie.

Lough Glass is at the heart and soul of the namesake town clinging to its shore. They say that if you go out on St. Agnes' Eve and look into the lake at sunset you can see your future. But beneath its serene surface, the lake harbors secrets as dark and unfathomable as the beautiful woman who walks beside its waters.

Vera has a nagging feeling that she's forgetting something. Not her keys or her homework-something bigger. Or someone. When she discovers her best friend Riven is experiencing the same strange feeling, they set out on a mission to uncover what's going on. Everyone in Vera's world has a special ability-a little bit of magic that helps them through the day. Perhaps someone's ability is interfering with their memory? Or is something altering their very reality?

Ever since raiders from the north began attacking villages, Lady Nicole Montagna has known that defending her people would come at a cost. The betrothal of her sister Chloe to a neighboring lord seems the perfect solution, forging a powerful alliance. But shortly before the wedding, Nicole is shocked to discover that her sister is with child - and not by her husband-to-be. Now she must make a choice, and she has just hours to decide.

Memories are by nature unreal, untrue, inaccurate. They are only mental constructs that we use to organize our experiences. Some are cherished, some frightening, some lost. But they are the only reality we know. Andrew takes a non-linear approach to assembling memory bits into a collection of experiences, real and imagined. Using a variety of forms, including short stories, poems, and a play, we get a portrait of a man lost in time.

Hear author Martha Weinman Lear and authors Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson on this edition of Fresh Air. Martha Weinman Lear's new book is called Where Did I Leave My Glasses? The What, When and Why of Normal Memory Loss. She explores the increasingly common phenomenon among baby boomers of memory loss associated with aging. She is also the author of the best-selling memoir Heartsounds.