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A Bookshop in Berlin : The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
by Françoise Frenkel
In 1921, Françoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman from Poland - fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city.
Françoise's dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht, as hundreds of Jewish shops and businesses are destroyed. La Maison du Livre is miraculously spared, but fear of persecution eventually forces Françoise on a desperate, lonely flight to Paris. When the city is bombed, she seeks refuge across Southern France, secreted away from one safe house to the next.
Published quietly in 1945, then rediscovered nearly 60 years later in an attic, A Bookshop in Berlin is a remarkable story of survival. This audiobook is the tale of a fearless woman whose lust for life and literature refuses to leave her, even in her darkest hours.
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The Book of Science and Antiquities
by Thomas Keneally
Obsessively researching prehistoric remains believed to represent a link between Africa and ancient Australia, an award-winning documentary filmmaker uncovers the complex world of a peaceful, 40,000-year-old tribal human. By the award-winning author of Schindler’s List.
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The tyrant's tomb
by Rick Riordan
Joining his friends at Camp Jupiter in the San Francisco Bay Area, Apollo prepares for a desperate last stand against the evil Triumvirate of Roman emperors only to be confronted by a forgotten Roman ruler of devastating power.
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Home work : a memoir of my Hollywood years
by Julie Andrews
The actor reflects on her Hollywood career; the creations of three of her most iconic films, "Mary Poppins," "The Sound of Music," and "Victor/Victoria"; and her efforts to juggle marriage, children, and fame
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