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Author:

Kelly, Martha Hall, author.

Title:

Lilac girls / Martha Hall Kelly.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

Large Print Pressa part of Cengage Learning,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

705 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
Nazis--Europe--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Large type books.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

"On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort in France grows and she eventually comes to hear about the dire situation at the Ravensbruck all-female concentration camp. At the same time, Kasia's carefree youth is quickly slipping away, only to be replaced by a fervor for the Polish resistance movement. Through Ravensbruck - and the horrific atrocities taking place there told in part by an infamous German surgeon, Herta Oberheuser - the two women's lives will converge in unprecedented ways and a novel of redemption and hope emerges that is breathtaking in scope and depth"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1432839918
9781432839918 (softcover)

LCCN:

bl2017017800

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

ZIPA815 -- Auburn Public Library (Auburn)

NKPD993 -- Eagle Grove Memorial Library (Eagle Grove)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)