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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 before,...
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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
Average Rating:
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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English
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First published in 1903 and hugely popular at the time, 'The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft' by George Gissing is structured as a series of diary entries. The diary keeper is the fictional former writer Henry Ryecroft, now in his fifties. An unexpected inheritance has allowed him to enjoy a slow, solitary life in Devon, where he muses about art, nature, and society through his diary. Although this is a work of fiction, there are clear parallels...
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[Katherine Dimancescu]
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
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.
13. My Name
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Publisher:
Beth Hoyer
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
A Young adult female seeks her identity and her name as she's called despite thrown into trials to remember certain things and doing things to earn her name and her identity as oath to her. This story is first person with explanatory commentary involving "War of Mars: Natalia's Story" without the commentary by Brandis the record keeper. This story is told in first person's diary format involving a female's point of view on learning what's her name...
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Publisher:
Voyager
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
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 the pyramids...
15. Kākāpō Keeper
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Publisher:
OneTree House Publishers
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
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:
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:
Pineapple Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
In a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed-the lighthouse keepers-from the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was established in America, to the early 1980s when automation replaced the last human "guardian of the light." A wealth of material from the archives of the 19th and 20th centuries-primarily letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts-provides vivid stories about...
18. Lilly's Vine
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Publisher:
Urcelia Teixeira
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
A small coastal town. A librarian's deadly discovery. A murder mystery filled with secrets, lies, and faith.For twelve years, librarian Lilly Cooper has been Weyport's keeper of secrets, collecting whispered confessions like others collect books. But when she discovers a mysterious diary among donated volumes, she finds herself holding a secret that could shatter her coastal town's carefully maintained facade.The diary belongs to a dead woman. The...
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...