The award : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1683311566
- ISBN: 9781683311560
- ISBN: 0735210020
- ISBN: 9780735210028
- Physical Description: 395 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family, and send them to a detention camp for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate. The local German military commandant makes Gaëlle's family estate outside Lyon into his headquarters. Her father and brother are killed by the Germans; her mother fades away into madness and ill health. Trusted friends and employees become traitors. And by accident, Gaëlle begins a perilous journey with the French Resistance, hoping to save lives to make up for the beloved friend she could do nothing to help. Taking terrifying risks, Gaëlle becomes a valuable member of the Resistance, fearlessly delivering Jewish children to safety under the eyes of the Gestapo and their French collaborators. Then she is suddenly approached by the German commandant with an astonishing, dangerous plan to save part of France's artistic heritage. Conducted in secret, flawlessly carried out, her missions will mark her for years, when she is falsely accused of collaboration at the end of the war. Orphaned and alone, she begins a new life in Paris, with the ghosts of the past always close at hand. Gaëlle's life will take her from Paris to New York, from a career as a Dior model to marriage and motherhood, unbearable loss, and mature, lasting love. She returns to Paris to run a small museum, honoring victims of the Holocaust. But her label as a collaborator remains. |
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Genre: | Large type books. Historical fiction. |
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- 15 of 15 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Southbury Public Library | STEEL/LP (Text) | 34019138483276 | Basement Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Ansonia Public Library | LP STEEL, DANIELLE (Text) | 34045120741389 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | LP F Ste (Text) | 33110139362394 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | FIC STEEL (Text) | 33750000065527 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | LP FIC STEEL (Text) | 34014140355307 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | LP FIC STEEL,D (PBK) (Text) | 34026136975872 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | LTE F STEEL (Text)
: IN MEMORY OF SALVATORE G. TROTTA.
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31953138226900 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | LP STEEL, DANIELLE (Text) | 34037133880601 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | LP FIC STE (Text) | 36123132891712 | Basement | Available | - |
Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | FIC STEEL L.T. ed. (Text) | 34025142063368 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |