Martha Hall Kelly

"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia's Imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. In need of domestic help, they hire the local fortuneteller's daughter, Varinka, unknowingly bringing intense danger into their household. On the other side of the Atlantic, Eliza is doing her part to help the White Russian families find safety as they escape the revolution. But when Sofya's letters suddenly stop coming she fears the worst for her best friend. From the turbulent streets of St. Petersburg to the avenues of Paris and the society of fallen Russian émigrés who live there, the lives of Eliza, Sofya, and Varinka will intersect in profound ways, taking readers on a breathtaking ride through a momentous time in history"--

A Novel

Lost Roses

"Sunflower Sisters is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real : As we roamed the neat brick streets of Charleston, past filigreed fences and palmetto trees, the atmosphere so gentle and refined, we never dreamed we'd stumble headlong into hell. Mother, my sister Georgy and I had come from New York City to visit friends. We stepped out to make our morning calls, admiring the pretty houses, one fanlight-windowed vestibule handsomer than the next. We left Mother's ecru cards on the silver trays. Mrs. Charles Woolsey 8 Bervoort Place, New York City"--

Sunflower Sisters

Lilac Girls: A Novel

Golden Doves

Two former female spies, bound by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II--an extraordinary, propulsive historical novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since American Sofie Anderson and Frechwoman Arlette LaRue were imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. As a pair of spies known as the Golden Doves, they were arrested for working with the Resistance and bound forever when they lost everything--including Arlette's son, Willie. It was here, in the darkest of places, that they created a makeshift family to endure: Sofie, Arlette and a little orphan they took in as their own, Fleur. Now thirty and supposedly working for the U.S. Army to bring Nazi scientists to America in a quest to outpace the Russians, Sofie nurtures an undying ember of anger in her heart. She is searching for Dr. Snow: The infamous, enigmatic doctor who did unspeakable things to her mother. Arlette is trying to make ends meet in Paris. She's exhausted all her finances to find her stolen son and works tirelessly to care for shellshocked Fleur. Then, the charming Luc Bouchard arrives in her cafe. The son of a famous philanthropic family, he invites her to their compound in French Guiana with the promised hope she might find Willie at the orphanage. And yet . . . rumour is it's also filled with absconding Nazis. When Arlette arrives at the secluded Cove House, she finds herself barred from the outside. Soon, she has to rely on her old techniques as a spy to uncover a deep deception that hits close to home. In the meantime, Sofie's quest for Dr. Snow leads her from Strasbourg to the Vatican to Brazil, and finally back to Arlette in French Guiana, where the two discover that their lives, and the ones they love, are in grave danger. Martha Hall Kelly has garnered acclaim for her stunning combination of empathy and research into terrors of Ravensbrück. With The Golden Doves, she has once again crafted an unforgettable story about the fates of the Nazi doctors in the wake of WWII, and the unsung females spies who risked it all to fight for justice.

The Golden Doves

I KRIG OCH KÄRLEK Caroline är volontär på franska ambassaden i New York och har precis mött mannen i sina drömmar. På andra sidan Atlanten tar den polska sextonåringen Kasia spionuppdrag för att imponera på pojken hon älskar. Samtidigt ser den unga tyska läkaren Herta inget annat val än att börja arbeta i ett koncentrationsläger för att försörja sig. Efter att Kasia tillfångatagits av tyskarna möter hon Herta under omständigheter som saknar motstycke i vår historia. Men Carolines välgörenhetsarbete tar henne till Europa, där hennes och Kasias vägar möts. SKÖNHETENS VÄG bygger på en sann historia. Caroline Ferriday och Herta Oberheuser var verkliga personer. Den ena förärades två tapperhetsmedaljer för sina insatser under andra världskriget. Den andra dömdes i Nürnberg för fasansfulla brott mot mänskligheten. Romanen är en fängslande berättelse om deras drömmar, umbäranden och uthållighet – och det godas seger över ondskan. ”En fantastisk historia om en varmhjärtad, generös kvinna som aldrig borde ha glömts bort.” – Cosmopolitan

Skönhetens väg

Mulheres sem nome

Lilac Girls of Ravensbrück

The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club 

Sosietetskvinnen Caroline Ferriday er ansatt på det franske konsulatet i New York. Da Hitlers hær invaderer Polen i 1939 snus livet hennes på hodet. I Polen møter vi Kasia Kuzmerick, en tenåringsjente som etter hvert trekkes stadig dypere inn i rollen som kurér for undergrunnsbevegelsen. Ett eneste feilsteg kan få forferdelige konsekvenser for den unge jenta. For den unge og ambisiøse tyske legen Herta Oberheuser blir en stilling i regjeringen muligheten for å komme bort fra ensomheten. Men jobben bringer henne inn i en mannsdominert verden der maktkamp og hemmeligheter er en del av hverdagen. Disse tre kvinnenes liv kobles sammen når Kasia sendes til Ravensbrück, den beryktede konsentrasjonsleiren for kvinner. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

Syrinpikene

Le ragazze senza nome

"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"--

Lilac Girls

Martha Hall Kelly's million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday's ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. "An exquisite tapestry of women determined to defy the molds the world has for them."--Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Georgeanna "Georgey" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door, and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escape--but only by abandoning the family she loves. Anne-May is left behind to run Peeler Plantation when her husband joins the Union army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. In charge of the household, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves. Inspired by true accounts, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid, detailed look at the Civil War experience, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations, to a war-torn New York City, to the horrors of the battlefield. It's a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty, a story still so relevant today.

Trandafirii pierduți

Cuando la autora tropezó por casualidad con un artículo sobre Caroline Ferriday, actriz y filántropa, supo que tenía que contar su historia y la de las mujeres que pudieron recomponer sus vidas gracias a ella.

Las mujeres de la casa de las lilas

Seringenmeisjes

roman

Blomstrende syrener

De Gouden duiven is de nieuwe historische roman van Martha Hall Kelly, bekend van Seringenmeisjes. Meeslepende roman over twee vrouwen die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog jacht maken op oorlogsmisdadigers De Amerikaanse Josie Anderson en de Franse Arlette LaRue zijn actief in het Franse verzet en weten zoveel geheimen van de nazi’s te stelen dat de Gestapo verbeten jacht op hen maakt. Voor hun moed betalen ze uiteindelijk een hoge prijs: ze worden samen met hun geliefden gearresteerd en overgebracht naar Ravensbrück. Daar voert een kamparts experimenten uit op de moeder van Josie en wordt Arlettes zoon bij haar weggehaald. Tien jaar later. Josie en Arlette hebben Ravensbrück overleefd en komen weer voor een gevaarlijke uitdaging te staan. Josie werkt voor het Amerikaanse leger en maakt jacht op de naziarts uit Ravensbrück. Arlette krijgt te horen dat haar zoon misschien gevonden is. Samen moeten ze tot het uiterste gaan om gerechtigheid te krijgen voor hun geliefden. De gouden duiven is vol inlevingsvermogen geschreven en gaat over het lot van de nazivluchtelingen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog – én over de miskende vrouwelijke spionnen die alles op alles hebben gezet om hen voor het gerecht te slepen.

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