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Collection: Adult Fiction
Call Number: F
Author: Kelly, Martha Hall
Title: Lilac girls
Remainder of title: a novel
Summary, etc. note: "Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents--from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland--as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten. In Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly has crafted a remarkable novel of unsung women and their quest for love, freedom, and second chances. It is a story that will keep readers bonded with the characters, searching for the truth, until the final pages. Advance praise for Lilac Girls "Rich with historical detail and riveting to the end, Lilac Girls weaves the lives of three astonishing women into a story of extraordinary moral power set against the harrowing backdrop of Europe in thrall to Nazi Germany. Martha Hall Kelly moves effortlessly across physical and ethical battlegrounds, across the trajectory of a doomed wartime romance, across the territory of the soul. I can't remember the last time I read a novel that moved me so deeply."--Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author of A Hundred Summers and The Secret Life of Violet Grant "Inspired by actual events and real people, Martha Hall Kelly has woven together the stories of three women during World War II that reveal the bravery, cowardice, and cruelty of those days. This is a part of history--women's history--that should never be forgotten."--Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of China Dolls"--

International Standard Book Number: 9781101883075 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9781101883068 (ebook)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: e-pl---
Geographic area code: e------
Geographic area code: n-us-ny
Classification number: PS3611.E452
Item number: L55 2016
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.6
Source of number: bisacsh
Classification number: FIC014000
Classification number: FIC019000
Classification number: FIC044000
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Martha Hall Kelly.
Edition statement: First edition.
Place of publication: New York ,NY
Name of publisher: Ballantine Books
Date of publication: 2016
: New York :
: Ballantine Books,
: [2016]
Extent: 487 pages
Dimensions: 25 cm
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: text
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Summary, etc. note: "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"--
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Source of acquisition: Donated
Purchase price: 26.00
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Ravensbrèuck (Concentration camp)
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Subject: World War, 1939-1945
Subject: Nazis
Subject: Woman
Subject: Freedom
Subject: Historical
Subject: FICTION / Literary.
Subject: FICTION / Contemporary Women.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
General subdivision: Women
General subdivision: Underground movements
Geographic subdivision: Europe
Geographic name: Poland
Geographic name: New York (N.Y.)
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
General subdivision: History
Chronological subdivision: Occupation, 1939-1945
Source of term: gsafd
Genre/form data or focus term: Historical fiction.
Main entry heading: Kelly, Martha Hall.
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : Ballantine Books, 2016
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Title: Lilac girls
Record control number: (DLC) 2016002612
International Standard Book Number: 9781101883068
Materials specified: Cover image
Uniform Resource Identifier: 9781101883075.jpg
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