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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
[2023]
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English
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"Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists. The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp."--
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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"The Keeper of the Diary" is a Mythic and Mystical tale of Epic-proportion where nothing, and no one, is what they appear to be. Circumstances force fashion photographer, Cassie, to take an unlikely assignment in Egypt, where a diary mysteriously appears in her camera case. Inextricably drawn to its content, she begins to discover a surprising connection to the diary's writer. She doesn't know whether or not to believe it, but if the diary is true,...
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Publisher:
Read Books Ltd
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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From the much-celebrated author of the satirical novel Evelina (1778), this volume is the collected journals and private correspondence of Fanny Burney, Queen Charlotte's Keeper of the Robes. First published posthumously in seven volumes between 1842-1846, this work is comprised of epistolary correspondence and diary excerpts written by Fanny Burney and edited by her niece, Mrs. Barrett.
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Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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"1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals. The Nazis then carry off the prized specimens to Berlin for their program to create the "purest" breeds, much as they saw themselves as the purest human race. Opposed to all the Nazis represented, the Zabinskis risked their lives by hiding Jews in the...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth's eyes have failed. No longer able to linger over her beloved books or gaze at the paintings that move her spirit, she fills the void with music and memories of her family—a past that suddenly becomes all too present when her late father's journals are found amid the ruins of an old shipwreck. With the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenage performing community service, Elizabeth goes through the diaries,...
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[Katherine Dimancescu]
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Katherine Dimancescu's narrative offers readers a window into the lives of some of her well-known and also little known maternal ancestors who helped shape the New England communities they called home. These discoveries include Mayflower passengers John Alden and his future wife Priscilla Mullins, ancestral homesteads from the 1600s, veterans of The Pequot War (1637) and King Philip's War (1675-76), slave-owning ancestors in New England, 17th and...
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Publisher:
Whittles Publishing
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
A tale of 117 years of devotion to duty, peacefulness and calm, disrupted forever by a day of inexplicable violence, a community's battle to have a lighthouse built. Includes extracts from a lighthouse keeper's detailed diary written during WWI on Little Ross.
12. Ghetto Tragedies
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English
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Ghetto Tragedies (1899) is a collection of stories by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an educator and author, he dedicated his career to the voiceless, the oppressed, and the needy, advocating for their rights and bearing witness to their suffering in some of the most powerful novels and stories of the...
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Publisher:
Voyager
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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Ashlee Devere, 19th-century clairvoyant, adventurer and historian, is called upon to authenticate a Sumerian text that predates the Old testament. Tamar, daughter of the renowned 21st-century linguist Mia Montrose, reading Ashlee's diaries for the first time, undergoes an astounding transformation, psychically and physically. Kali, a powerful goddess, and one of the keepers of the lost key to the gateway between our world and the next, is coming...From...
14. Kākāpō Keeper
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Publisher:
OneTree House Publishers
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Inspired by a true story, Kākāpō Keeper is a tale of New Zealand history and conservation efforts. Written as a fictional diary by Andrew Burt (14), who has been employed as the assistant to Richard Henry the Chief Conservator based in Dusky Sound (on New Zealand's lower west coast) from July 1894 to June 1908. Henry has been charged with preserving birds on specific islands in the area, and to add to them.Each chapter starts with a lift from Andrew's...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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'Thanks to Rae Rivers, we're now totally hooked on witches.' - No. 5 on Grazia's 'Ten Hot Things to Do List' For fans of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and The Vampire Diaries... "Going to Ameera to find Hazel. Stealing the spell ... You think you can pull it off?" he asked. She nodded, not trusting herself to speak. Just as she thought he'd kiss her, he reached for her jacket and said, "Then let's go." A portal to another world has opened,...
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Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Melody, a young single mother, discovers she's descended from the last Tsar, Nicholas II. She becomes the best hope of a secret global society, Guardians of the Romanov Legacy, dedicated to restoring a Romanov to the throne of a New Russia. A diary and an heirloom necklace inherited from her murdered grandmother hold the key to her identity and to the location of the Tsar's lost shipment of gold. She must accept the sacrifices her birth demands and...
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Publisher:
Page Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
This book is mostly about Matthew and what it meant to him to get to walk with the Lord of all. This book is not about the four gospels, which were written fifty years after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is a daily accounting from a confused man. One of the twelve had to have written a diary. I believe it was Matthew. He had to be the one who was hated by the public: no one likes a tax collector. I believe that Matthew is the one...
19. Secrets Kept
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Publisher:
Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
More than two years in the making. The sequel to KEEPER OF SECRETS. The continuing adventures of Daisy and her granddaughter Susan. Daisy's diaries inspire Susan to lead a secret life of adventure. Money, danger and a sense of freedom drive Susan. Daisy became a spy because her country needed her -- Susan steals secrets because she wants to. These women, living in different centuries, are connected by the mysterious Keeper of Secrets. Find out why...
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Publisher:
Borodino Books
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
This is the true-life story of Oliver Roberts de La Fontaine, who was the last of the Wells Fargo Shotgun express messengers. Taken from his notes and journals, the book tells of his days in the early West as a rancher, miner, saloon keeper, gambler, and lawman, including his adventures of coming into contact with stage robbers and other lawless persons in California and Nevada. Later in life, Roberts de la Fontaine came to "The Walter Method," referring...