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"The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, "the butcher of Zamosc." Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser, Ben Solomon, is convinced he is right. Solomon persuades...
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"An old friend summons Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his popular Chicago restaurant, seeking to enlist their help. A powerful corporation is evicting his aunt Gabi from the Tuscan villa where she has lived all her life, claiming it now owns the deed to her land. To assist them in unraveling this dispute, Gabi sends Catherine and Liam a leather-bound manuscript written by Ada Baumgarten many years ago. Hidden in its pages is a story long suppressed....
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"Multiple hankies, dog lovers...this is an emotional read." –Library Journal
If there's been a theme in Justine Meade's life, it's loss. Her mother, her home, even her son. The one bright spot in her loss-filled life, the partner she could always count on, was Mack, her grey and black Sheltie – that is, until she is summoned back to her childhood home after more than twenty years away.
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Once a promising, professional baseball player, Rick Stanton returns from World War II with his body broken, and his dreams shattered. He and his wife, Francesca, had also volunteered their beloved dog, Pax, for the Army's K-9 Corp. Then the soldier who fought the war by his side returns with Pax, hoping to adopt him. Instead, the Stantons offer him a job as Rick's live-in aide. An unlikely family is formed, with Pax at its center.