Monica Hesse

An unforgettable story of bravery, grief, and love in impossible times "Girl in the Blue Coat is a powerful, compelling coming-of-age story set against the dark and dangerous backdrop of World War II. It's an important and page-turning look at the choices all of us--including young adults--have to make in wartime. A beautiful combination of heartbreak, loss, young love, and hope." -Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale "A tapestry of guilt and acceptance, growing responsibility, and reluctant heroism, Hanneke's coming-of-age under heartbreaking circumstances is a jarring reminder of how war consumes and transforms the passions of ordinary life. Every devastating moment of this beautiful novel is both poignant and powerful, and every word feels true." -Elizabeth Wein, New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion. On a routine delivery, a client asks Hanneke for help. Expecting to hear that Mrs. Janssen wants meat or kerosene, Hanneke is shocked by the older woman's frantic plea to find a person--a Jewish teenager Mrs. Janssen had been hiding, who has vanished without a trace from a secret room. Hanneke initially wants nothing to do with such dangerous work, but is ultimately drawn into a web of mysteries and stunning revelations that lead her into the heart of the resistance, open her eyes to the horrors of the Nazi war machine, and compel her to take desperate action. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, and meticulously researched, Girl in the Blue Coat is an extraordinary, gripping novel from a bright new voice.

Girl in the Blue Coat

A tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat. Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else--her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja--they went left. Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiancé. And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once. But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her--or help her rebuild her world.

They Went Left

Documents the trial of a man charged with dozens of counts of arson in a rural Virginia county, sharing insight into his struggles with addiction, his relationship with his accomplice girlfriend, and the impact of the fires on their community.

Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

American Fire

A stunning novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal from Monica Hesse, the Edgar Award-winning and bestselling author of Girl in the Blue Coat It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado--until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her father, who she knows is keeping something from her. And Margot is doing everything she can to keep her family whole as her mother's health deteriorates and her rational, patriotic father becomes a man who distrusts America and fraternizes with Nazis. With everything around them falling apart, Margot and Haruko find solace in their growing, secret friendship. But in a prison the government has deemed full of spies, can they trust anyone--even each other?

The War Outside

Schuld und Verrat, Mut und Widerstand Amsterdam ist von den Nazis besetzt. Hanneke verbringt ihre Tage damit, Schwarzmarktgüter zu beschaffen, ihre Abende damit, ihren besorgten Eltern genau das zu verheimlichen, und jede wache Minute damit, um ihren Freund zu trauern, der an der Front gefallen ist. Ihre illegalen Geschäfte betrachtet sie als kleinen Akt der Rebellion. Aber eines Tages erhält sie einen sehr ungewöhnlichen Auftrag. Eine ihrer Kundinnen bittet sie, ein Mädchen zu finden. Ein jüdisches Mädchen, das aus dem Geheimversteck in ihrem Haus verschwunden ist. Auf der Suche nach diesem Mädchen gerät Hanneke in ein Netz aus Lügen, Rätseln und Geheimnissen.

Nominiert für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2019

Das Mädchen im blauen Mantel

Una novela de misterio ambientada en la Segunda Guerra Mundial con un profundo mensaje sobre justicia social, racismo y prejuicios, amor, amistad y valentía. #lachicadelabrigoazul Novela finalista del 2017 Indies Choice Awards de la American Booksellers Association Amsterdam, 1943. La joven Hanneke se dedica a comprar y vender todo lo que encuentra en el mercado negro, a escondidas de sus padres. Es su manera de rebelarse ante la ocupación alemana y sobrellevar la pérdida de su novio en el frente. Pero su vida da un giro cuando una de sus clientas le hace un encargo inusitado: que localice a una chica judía que mantenía oculta y que ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Tiene que dar con ella antes de que la encuentren los nazis. Un relato conmovedor e inolvidable de valentía, dolor y amor en tiempos imposibles. Basada en una meticulosa documentación, La chica del abrigo azul es una extraordinaria y cautivadora novela de una de las nuevas voces de la ficción histórica. Reseñas: «Un mosaico de culpabilidad y aceptación, de responsabilidades crecientes y de reacio heroísmo, el alcance de la mayoría de edad de Hanneke en dolorosas condiciones es un recordatorio de cómo la guerra consume y transforma las pasiones de la vida cotidiana. Cada desgarradora escena de esta hermosa novela es conmovedora y potente, y todas y cada una de sus palabras hacen que la historia parezca verdadera.» Elizabeth Wein, autora de Nombre en clave: Verity «Una de las mejores historias que hemos leído en esta última temporada. No te la puedes perder». Blog Entérate de lo último «Uno de los puntos fuertes ha sido como la autora ha sabido narrar la acción, de una forma directa y dejando pequeñas pistas, para que llegado el final todas las piezas encajaran. Ha sabido captar mi interés, que quisiera saber si llegarían encontrara Mirjam, que pasó entre Hanneke y su mejor amiga y como acabarían las cosas para su grupo de amigos, metiendo algunos momentos de tensión de por medio que han hecho que me preocupara por sus personajes y quisiera saber más sobre ellos. Genial». Blog Perdida en un mundo de libros «Un relato sobre el amor, la amistad, la valentía y el dolor totalmente absorbente. Una historia llena de emociones y con personajes tan humanos que será difícil olvidar». Alexandra M.J. Blackburn en ¿Dónde está mi lápiz?

La chica del abrigo azul

Fata cu palton albastru

La ragazza con la bicicletta rossa

A kék kabátos lány

Brightwood Code

Le roman d'une jeune fille confrontée à des choix tragiques. Un écho vibrant au Journal d'Anne Frank.

Une fille au manteau bleu

A rapariga do casaco azul

Todos tenemos un abecedario que llenar Alemania, 1945. Aunque el campo de concentración de Gross-Rosen fue liberado, para Zofia Lederman las heridas que le dejó la guerra (tanto en su cuerpo como en su mente) no han sanado. Tres años antes, ella y su hermano menor, Abek, fueron los únicos integrantes de su familia a los que enviaron a la derecha; es decir, lejos de las cámaras de gas de Auschwitz-Birkenau. Todos los demás, sus padres, su abuela, su radiante tía, se fueron a la izquierda. Antes de que los nazis los separaran, los hermanos alcanzaron a hacerse una promesa: -De Abek a Zofia. -De la A a la Z. -Cuando vuelva a verte encontraremos nuestro abecedario. Estaremos completos, y todo estará bien. Te prometo que te encontraré. Pero hallar a un niño en un mar de desaparecidos no es tarea fácil, y las pesquisas llevarán a Zofia a un campamento de sobrevivientes donde todos intentan dejar atrás un pasado doloroso y labrarse un nuevo futuro. Entre los escombros de un continente roto, Zofia debe profundizar en un misterio cuyas respuestas podrían romperla o ayudarla a reconstruir su mundo.

Se fueron a la izquierda

"Una novela de misterio ambientada en la Segunda Guerra Mundial con un profundo mensaje sobre justicia social, racismo y prejuicios, amor, amistad y valentía. que encuentra en el mercado negro, a escondidas de sus padres. Es su manera de rebelarse ante la ocupación alemana y sobrellevar la pérdida de su novio en el frente. Pero su vida da un giro cuando una de sus clientas le hace un encargo inusitado: que localice a una chica judía que mantenía oculta y que ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Tiene que dar con ella antes de que la encuentren los nazis. Un relato conmovedor e inolvidable de valentía, dolor y amor en tiempos imposibles. Basada en una meticulosa documentación,La chica del abrigo azules una extraordinaria y cautivadora novela de una de las nuevas voces de la ficción histórica."--Casadellibro.com.

La Chica del Abrigo Azul / Girl in the Blue Coat

Ik zal je vinden / druk 1

"Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else--her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja--they went left. Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiancé. And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once. But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her--or help her rebuild her world." -- Book jacket.

Perfect for fans of Black Mirror and Warcross, this suspenseful novel asks what it means to live a life that isn't your own. Lona Sixteen Always has spent most of her life as someone else. Part of a unique virtual reality experiment for troubled kids who have been "rescued" by the government, she spends twenty-three hours a day on the Path, reliving the decades-old, perfectly ordinary memories of a perfectly ordinary boy. Any other life is unimaginable--until one day someone appears on Lona's screen who doesn't belong. Fenn, a boy from her past, has returned to set her free. Lona is wrenched brutally into an existence that is suddenly all her own, one that promises liberty and love, but also holds threatening secrets. And it turns out that there is a heavy price to pay for straying from her assigned path. In Stray, Edgar-award winning master of suspense Monica Hesse brings us a richly imagined speculative world where there are no easy answers--and no easy way out. *This ebook includes bonus excerpts from Monica Hesse's historical fiction novels Girl in the Blue Coat and The War Outside.

Stray

«Commovente e profondamente illuminante.» Publishers Weekly

La guerra di Margot

Lona lives her life virtually through Julian, a boy chosen as a role model for the Pathers of Quadrant 1 - troubled children who have been 'rescued' by the government and put 'on-Path'. But one day Lona finds she can think for herself. On top of that, the face of a familiar boy appears on her screen - Fenn, who she thought had moved on to a different stage of the Path last year. But Fenn has strayed from the Path, and now Lona must stray too - and uncovers a secret that will threaten all their lives.

Amsterdam, 1943. In de waanzin van de oorlog zorgt Hanneke voor een klein lichtpuntje: ze weet op slimme manier de zwarte markt voor zich te laten werken, waardoor ze vraag en aanbod bij elkaar brengt. Zoek je koffie, chocolade of kousen? Voor de juiste prijs zijn ze van jou. Op een dag krijgt Hanneke een wel heel ongebruikelijk verzoek. Mevrouw Janssen, een van haar vaste klanten, vraagt haar op zoek te gaan naar Mirjam, het Joodse meisje dat verdwenen is uit de geheime ruimte in haar huis. In eerste instantie veegt Hanneke het verzoek van tafel, maar ze raakt toch geïntrigeerd door het feit dat er geen enkel spoor van braak of geweld in het huis van mevrouw Janssen te vinden is dat kan duiden op wat er gebeurd is met Mirjam. Nieuwsgierig geworden start Hanneke haar zoektocht naar Mirjam bij het Joodsch Lyceum, maar veel verder komt ze daar niet. Tot ze via via in contact komt met een groepje oud-studenten. Langzaam raakt Hanneke steeds meer bij het verzet betrokken en stuit ze op aanwijzingen naar? voor? de mogelijke verblijfplaats van Mirjam. Haar zoektocht eindigt bij de Hollandsche Schouwburg, waar ze van Mina, die bij de crèche aan de overkant van de schouwburg werkt, hoort dat Mirjam daar gesignaleerd is. Samen met haar nieuwe vrienden bedenkt Hanneke een slim, maar zeer riskant plan. Zal het plan slagen? Of spelen er geheimen waarvan Hanneke en mevrouw Janssen niet op de hoogte zijn?

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