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Product: Not Without My Sister: A compelling and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel
Description: 1944, Germany. Two sisters seek to overcome impossible odds to be reunited, in this utterly devastating and unforgettable novel about sisterhood, courage and survival.

All they had left was each other. Until the Nazis tore them apart.

After years of hiding from the Nazis, Rachel Epstein and her little sister Mindel are captured by the Gestapo and sent to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. The only ray of light for either girl is that they are together.

But on arrival they are separated. As she’s seventeen and deemed an adult, Rachel is sent to work in a brutal factory whilst four-year-old Mindel is sent into the so-called “star” camp for Jewish prisoners. All on her own, Rachel knows her sister will have no chance of survival—unless she can find someone to take care of her.

Working in the windowless, airless factory—filling munitions casings with chemicals that burn her fingers and make her eyes sting—the only thing that keeps Rachel going is the thought of her little sister. Because if there’s even a chance Mindel is alive, Rachel knows she must try to save her.

But, separated by barbed wire, and treated brutally by SS guards who do not even see them as human beings, can either of the orphaned sisters ever dare to hope that they’ll find their way back to each other? And to freedom?

A completely heartbreaking, utterly gripping tale of courage, loss and overcoming impossible odds, perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Ragged Edge of Night and The Orphan’s Tale.

Readers are loving Not Without My Sister:

“Incredible… I couldn’t stop reading… It would be a great movie… [It] made me cry.” Rachel Wesson ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“So emotional, heartbreaking… I couldn’t even put this book down and I got so engrossed into the book that I didn’t even realize until I came to the end!… Grab your tissues because this book will make you cry… Unputdownable historical fiction!” Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“It made me weep… a roller coaster of emotions.” Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“[A] beautiful, heart-breaking story… a poignant story that will tug at even the most hardened heart strings, with beautifully drawn characters, and filled with raw emotion, it’s a book that will stay with you long after you’ve reached the last page.” The Book Review Café

“By the end of the story I was crying… gripping… A must read!” jasminegalsreadinglog ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“A heartbreaking read that brought tears to my eyes… Both beautiful and harrowing.” Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“Heart-wrenching… such an emotional read, have your tissues ready.
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Product: Not Without My Sister
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Product: The Book of Lost Names
Description: “A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday

Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this “sweeping and magnificent” (Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue) historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker’s Wife.
Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in more than sixty years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.

The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer, but does she have the strength to revisit old memories?

As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris and find refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, where she began forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears.

An engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil.
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Product: NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER (Marathi Edition)
Description: `Now you will never step out of Iran. You will have to live here for the rest of your life, understood?` Betty Mahmoody and her husband Dr. Sayyad Bozorg Mahmoody (a real moody person) who were residing in America came to Iran to visit his relatives there. Their four-year old daughter Mahtob was also with them. Betty could not tolerate the hideous life-style of the Iranis. She was terribly upset with the thought of staying in a country where women were considered to be less than the slaves. She was very much eager to go back to America. But, Moody and his family members were busy cooking something else for her. Very soon, the mother and her daughter were prisoners in the foreign land and foreign culture. They were puppets in the hands of a very cruel and despotic person. After a while, Betty came across a name of a person, who could help her to elope from Iran. The way was full of dangers, it was very fearful. No woman had ever tried to run away in such a manner and that to with a daughter at her side. The attempt to reach America was started with a snow storm which sounded like a bad dream.
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Product: Unwavering: Based on a True Story of Love and Resistance (Love and Resistance in WW2 Germany Book 3)
Description: From inspiration to heartache, hope is fleeting as
freedom becomes a distant memory…
Wilhelm Quedlin’s plan to change the tide of the war is thwarted when he is arrested. And, making matters worse, with the arrest of his wife, Hilde, the fate of their children is thrown into chaos. The situation is desperate and the circumstances become even more dire when Q finds out who was behind his capture and imprisonment.
Yet hope remains...
In the midst of their situation, Q and Hilde are encouraged when they meet like-minded political prisoners in the penitentiary and rumors of reprieval make the rounds.
Despite darkness and despair looming in the distance, their hope never fades.
Will they evade the inevitable and come out unscathed by the claws of the Gestapo?
Readers who love Unwavering:
"I feel privileged to know the names of these bravest heroes and they have filled my soul with inspiration and heart with unrelenting justice. Thank you for sharing this story, it will stay with me forever." - Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"...I was so caught up in the characters, their lives, their hopes and dreams that I was mesmerized to the very end. Knowing that these books were based on true characters and historical times only made for a more intriguing read. I recommend this trilogy to anyone who wishes to lose themselves in a great story." - Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"I feverishly delved through the books craving for the story to unfold and be told. I immediately fell in love with the characters, their lives and their cause. This trilogy does tug at your heart strings but is based on the true story of the author's grandparents throughout the Holocaust and their daring secretive work for the resistance. This story is definitely worth the read!" - Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Product: Homesick for Another World: Stories
Description: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time
"I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris
Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel.
And for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O'Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We're in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.
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Product: Not Without My Sister: A Bellingham Story
Description: “Not Without My Sister: A Bellingham Story” is a thrilling story of a brother and sister that develop an unbreakable bond as a result of the untimely deaths of their parents. Jack and Kelli Walker call Bellingham, Washington their home; where Jack runs his own hiking and biking tours to take advantage of the tourist influx; while Kelli works as a nurse.
Kelli joins her brother on one of his scheduled hiking tours in order to spend more time with him and better understand what he does for a living, the unthinkable occurs as Kelli suddenly and inexplicably goes missing while out on the trail with the group. Jack begins a mad search to try to determine what happened to his sister; willing to do anything to get her back. Will Jack’s search uncover what happened to his sister; or will his search result in Jack placing his own life or freedom in danger?
This is a thrilling story of the love that exists between a brother and sister and the unimaginable lengths a brother will go to in order to keep that bond from being irrevocably broken. This suspenseful tale takes place in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with Bellingham, Washington serving as the story’s central backdrop.
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Product: "Not Without My Daughter": A Mother's Prayer a Family's Determination-To See a Daughter Set Free Against the Odds
Description: PROPHETESS DIA JACKSON writer, teacher, armor bearer/servant, intercessor, prayer warrior, preacher, not only an end time prophet of God called to the world to speak the oracles of God to edify, exhort, comfort, and prophecy God’s word only under the authority he has given her with conviction. God has birthed and gifted her with 14 years of a lifestyle of prayer as the mantle of intercession and prayer rest on her life for leadership, Apostles, Prophets, Evangelist, Pastors, and Teachers the fivefold ministry. As well as family, friends and the lost.As “Not without My Daughter” is the first published book of many that will follow this woman of God called for such a time as this. This articulate writer wanted to capture the mind, heart, and soul of “daughters” all over the word to let them know that the power of a praying ‘mother” is something that will leave a lasting life time legacy that will effectively pass on from generation to generation and will be left in this earth.
Prophetess Dia Jackson resides with her daughter Shyla Shane’ Jackson and her two anointed grandchildren as God’s hand is on them a little warrior Prophet Jaiyon Malachi Jackson and a princess Prophetess Samiyah Elaine Jackson in the state of New Jersey. Add a photo
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Product: Not Without My Daughters
Description: Description: We are all called to pour out our lives into someone else. Not Without My Daughters helps the reader understand the basics of the mentoring relationship. The author uses the relationship between Ruth and Naomi to express God's desire for these important relationships.
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Product: Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted
Description: The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting loyalty and unforgettable courage.

From as early as three years old, Juliana, Celeste and Kristina were separated from their parents and physically and sexually abused by their ‘guardians’ in the infamous religious cult known as the Children of God. They were made to watch and mimic orgies, received love letters and sexual advances from men old enough to be their grandfather, and were forced into abusive relationships. They were denied access to formal schooling and medical care, had to busk on the streets, beg for money, and were mercilessly beaten for 'crimes' as unpredictable as reading an encyclopaedia.

Finally, unable to live with the guilt of what had happened to her children, their mother escaped with Kristina and her younger siblings, cutting herself off from Celeste in a bid to save her remaining children. Desperate to save her sister, Kristina eventually began a search to find Celeste,but it would be many years until Celeste found the courage to escape, wanting freedom and a different future for the child she was carrying. The suicide of one of their sisters drove Juliana to exit the group a couple of years later.

Now the three sisters have finally come together to reveal in full and horrific detail their existence within the Children of God cult. Their stories reveal a community spread throughout the world and its legacy of anorexia, depression, drug abuse, suicide and even murder. Lives are ripped apart and painstakingly mended with a shared strength that finally enabled the sisters to free themselves from the shadows of their past.
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Product: Daddy's Little Girl: A picture perfect family with a terrible secret
Description: Every family has its secrets, but some are worse than others.I had learnt to switch myself off from feeling anything when he molested me. Just lie there like a wooden doll and dont give him the satisfaction of allowing one whimper to leave your mouth.Lynns mother wanted the world to see the perfect family. An immaculate house, three well-dressed children and a charming husband. But behind closed doors it was a different story. Abused by her father from when she was just a baby, Lynn would scream for her mother, who ignored the little girls cries. Nothing was going to shatter her perfect life. Threatened by their parents, Lynn and her brother never told anyone in fear of being separated, but the trauma of their past followed them throughout their lives, with devastating consequences. Now as Lynn tries to piece together and come to terms with her past as an adult, she discovers she wasnt the only one with a secret.
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Product: One Day Closer: A Mother's Quest to Bring Her Kidnapped Daughter Home
Brand: Simon & Schuster
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Product: Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story: A Mother’s Guided Journal To Share Her Life & Her Love (Hear Your Story Books)
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Product: Not Without My Daughter: The Harrowing True Story of a Mother's Courage
Brand: St. Martin's Press
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Product: Not without my sister
Description: Not without my sister Kristina and Celeste and Juliana
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Product: My Name Is Mahtob: The Story that Began in the Global Phenomenon Not Without My Daughter Continues
Description: The daughter at the center of the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter completes her story: escaping from Iran, growing up in fear, battling deadly disease, and learning to forgive.

Two decades ago, millions of readers worldwide thrilled to the story told in the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter—subsequently made into a film starring Sally Field—that told of an American mother and her six-year-old child’s daring escape from an abusive and tyrannical Iranian husband and father. Now the daughter returns to tell the whole story, not only of that imprisonment and escape but of life after fleeing Tehran: living in fear of re-abduction, enduring recurring nightmares and panic attacks, attending school under a false name, battling life-threatening illness—all under the menacing shadow of her father.

This is the story of an extraordinary young woman’s triumph over life-crushing trauma to build a life of peace and forgiveness. Taking readers from Michigan to Iran and from Ankara, Turkey, to Paris, France, My Name Is Mahtob depicts the profound resilience of a wounded soul healed by faith in God’s goodness and in his care and love. And Mahmoody reveals the secret of how she liberated herself from a life of fear, learning to forgive the father who had shattered her life and discovering joy and peace that comes from doing so.
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