What happened to Brigitte Berthold?That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and ten-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival. Daniel vowed to find Brigitte after the war, a promise he has fought to fulfill for more than seventy years.Now a wealthy old man, Daniel's final hope in finding Brigitte rests ...

In De echo van het eiland van Melanie Dobson raakt een klein meisje vermist. 85 jaar later zoekt een journalist uit wat er met haar is gebeurd.Aan de vooravond van haar vijfde verjaardag ligt Poppy Pendleton veilig ingestopt in haar bed, luisterend naar haar ouders die de society van New York entertainen in hun kasteel op de Thousands Islands. De volgende ochtend is ze spoorloos verdwenen en wordt haar vader dood aangetroffen in zijn rookkamer....

In Rozen in de nacht van Melanie Dobson zijn twee verhaallijnen naadloos verweven.Aan de ene kant: Grace Tonquin, een Amerikaanse die er tijdens WOII in Frankrijk alles aan doet om Joodse kinderen te redden van de nazi’s. Na een levensgevaarlijke tocht door de Pyreneeën neemt ze twee kinderen mee naar huis: Élias en Marguerite. Grace en haar man houden zielsveel van de kinderen, maar Graces oorlogstrauma breekt het gezin op.Aan de andere kant, meer dan vijftig jaar...

In this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called "propulsive" and a "must-read" ( Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and tr...

‘Een kamer vol lichtjes’ van Melanie Dobson is een meeslepende oorlogsroman over een vrouw die tientallen kinderen uit de Hollandsche Schouwburg wist te smokkelen, maar daarbij haar eigen zoontje uit het oog verloor.Amsterdam, 1942. Anneliese ‘Eliese’ Linden werkt bij de Hollandsche Schouwburg en probeert zoveel mogelijk Joodse kinderen uit de handen van de nazi’s te houden. Maar uitgerekend haar eigen zoontje belandt in Westerbork. Wanneer Eliese zelf ook moet vluchten is het voor...

'Dochter van het Derde Rijk' van Melanie Dobson begint vlak voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog, wanneer het meisje Lilly wordt ontvoerd. Archeologe Hanna Tillich wordt gedwongen om Lilly te adopteren, met een SS-officier te trouwen en in een museum in Neurenberg te gaan werken. Deze gebeurtenissen zetten haar leven op zijn kop en zorgen ervoor dat ze haar vraagtekens begint te zetten bij het naziregime. Maar vraagtekens zijn gevaarlijk. Tachtig jaar later helpt Lilly onderzoeker Ember Ellis met h...

Reminiscent of Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife, this stunning novel draws from true accounts to shine a light on a period of Holland's darkest history and bravest heroes.1942. As war rips through the heart of Holland, childhood friends Josie van Rees and Eliese Linden partner with a few daring citizens to rescue Eliese's son and hundreds of other Jewish children who await deportation in a converted theater in Amsterdam. But amid their resistance work...

A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of World War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and—decades later—a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma.1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry a...

In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family's castle in the Thousand Islands of New York. Eighty-five years later, a journalist teams up with a woman living on Koster Isle to find out what happened to Poppy, once and for all.1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York's gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the ne...

From the award-winning author of Catching the Wind, which Publishers Weekly called "unforgettable" and a "must-read," comes another gripping time-slip novel about hidden treasure, a castle, and ordinary people who resisted evil in their own extraordinary way.The year is 1938, and as Hitler's troops sweep into Vienna, Austrian Max Dornbach promises to help his Jewish friends hide their most valuable possessions from the Nazis, smuggling them to his ...

Searching for a story to adapt for film, an aspiring screenwriter becomes captivated by a bestselling classic novel and the mysterious disappearance of the woman who wrote it.1940. Via Belle's sweet romance novels made readers believe in happily ever after. But Via's reality was much more complicated. While her first husband was alive, her creativity thrived in a beautiful stone estate situated above a pristine lake and moonflower garden. After his...

In this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace’s past and trauma from ...