Mario Escobar
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"August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys’ parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt’s care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the boys and take them to the Vélodrome d’Hiver—a...
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"Saint-Malo, France: 1939. The German invasion has begun, and Jocelyn Ferrec - the guardian of the Saint-Malo Library - clings to her husband, Antoine, and to the priceless books under her care. But she and everything she holds dear are in danger as Germany encroaches upon every corner of the continent. Antoine is forced to the frontlines, and Jocelyn must contend with an illness that threatens her very life. Despite her fear and loneliness, Jocelyn...
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"Elisabeth Eidenbenz left Switzerland in 1937 to aid children orphaned during the Spanish Civil War. Now, her work has led her to France, where she’s determined to provide expectant mothers and their unborn children a refuge amid one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Desperate to escape the invasion of Franco’s Fascist troops, Isabel Dueñas becomes one of many Spanish patriots fleeing their country. She leaves behind...