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The Plateau

Paxson, Maggie · Riverhead Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why?In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers,...
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Tracing Your Roman Catholic Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians

Raymond, Stuart A. · Pen and Sword Family History
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

Tracing Your Roman Catholic Ancestors is the ideal handbook for readers and researchers who are keen to find out about their Roman Catholic ancestors and for anyone who wants an introduction to Roman Catholic history in general. Stuart Raymond provides a brief historical account covering...
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

Heather Morris · HarperCollins B and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 International BestsellerThis beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov...
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Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus

Jim Wallis · HarperOne
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Writing in response to our current "constitutional crisis," New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of our tribal nation.In Christ...
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An Unorthodox Match

Ragen, Naomi · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem. Yaakov is a man of God, a father, a Talmud scholar, and a widower. After failing to save his wife's life, he is struggling both financially and spiritually....
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Cilka's Journey

Morris, Heather · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, comes the new novel based on an incredible true story of love and resilience. "She was the bravest person I ever met." -- Lale Sokolov on Cilka Klein, The Tattooist of Auschwitz Cilka is just sixteen...
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The Last Train to London: A Novel

Clayton, Meg Waite · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and The Nightingale, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe - and one brave...
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The Timepiece

Lewis, Beverly · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

As the only daughter, Sylvia Miller of The Tinderbox has always held a special place in her Old Order family, one Adeline Pelham jeopardizes when she shows up at the Millers' Hickory Hollow farm. It isn't that Adeline means to be a threat, but her very existence is a reminder of the painful...
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Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom

Steven Waldman · HarperOne
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation's "greatest invention." Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined...
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Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality

Aguirre, Anthony · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Cosmological Koans invites the reader into an intellectual adventure of the highest order.Through more than fifty Koans -- pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition -- leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from West to East, and through...
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