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  Alice B Toklas is Missing

  Robert Archambeau

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  Jazz-age Paris was the center of the artistic and literary world, and the center of the center was Gertrude Stein's salon, where the famous and aspiring creative talents gathered to gawk at Stein's Picassos and vie for status. Young Midwesterner Ida Caine arrives in Paris with her husband Teddy, a would-be Hemingway who thinks he can adventure first and write later. When Teddy falls in with the Stein set, he brings Ida to the salon, where she is shunted into a corner with the wives of famous men. She burns with resentment and wonders if she can ever develop into a real artist herself. A few days later, Gertrude Stein's partner Alice B. Toklas vanishes. Stein calls upon Teddy to investigate. Soon after, he vanishes. Forced to seek out her missing husband, Ida follows his trail through a milieu including strange Surrealist rituals, Tarot card readings, and the catacombs beneath the city. She falls in with a young American poet, T. S. Eliot. An unlikely passion grows while they seek answers to the shocking disappearances.

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  The Sorrows of Young Werther

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  "The Sorrows of Young Werther" (in German, "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers") is a novel by the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. This novel is considered one of the foundational works of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, characterized by emotional intensity and individualism. The story is presented as a series of letters written by the young artist Werther to his friend Wilhelm. It explores themes of unrequited love, longing, and the conflict between societal expectations and personal desires. Werther's intense and tragic passion for Charlotte, who is already engaged to another man, forms the central emotional narrative.

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  The Sower of Black Field -...

  Katherine Koch

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  Throughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of Schwarzenfeld, they followed an American citizen. 
  Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P., has quietly ministered to the people of Schwarzenfeld throughout the war. In a time of oppression, he has struggled to keep their faith alive, despite the watchful eyes of Nazi authorities. 
  As he peacefully resists efforts to end his missionary work, Fr. Viktor wrestles with his heritage and identity. Why does he feel rooted in Germany? Is he following a higher calling or bound by the mystical forces of his ancestry? Awakened to the tyranny of Nazi rule, his followers risk prison to express their dissent. Relying upon his ingenuity to protect them, Fr. Viktor finds a grudging ally in a Nazi charity worker who confiscated his monastery. 
  In April 1945, American liberators arrive in Schwarzenfeld and make a gruesome discovery: the SS have left a mass grave of concentration camp victims on the village’s border. Enraged by the sight, the American commander holds the town responsible. He issues a chilling ultimatum—the villagers must dig up and properly bury each of the 140 corpses within 24 hours, or every German man in town will be executed. 
  With time running out, Fr. Viktor must perform a miracle. He must convince his countrymen that his followers are not the enemy. Their humanity is still intact. And most of all, they are innocent.

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  A Handful of Happiness

  Evelyn Hood

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  The Newcomers

  Vivian Stuart

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  The fourth book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country built on blood, passion, and dreams.
  
  The battle continues in the new British colony of Australia: the fight for power as well as survival. The corrupt military officers are doing everything they can to gain legal and political power, while the governor is finding it difficult to carry out his duties.
  And Jenny Taggart, now freed from her convict status, is fighting hard for her family, her redemption, and her new country.
  
  Rebels and outcasts, they fled halfway across the earth to settle the harsh Australian wastelands. Decades later — ennobled by love and strengthened by tragedy — they had transformed a wilderness into a fertile land. And themselves into The Australians.

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  War and Peace Book 7

  Leo Tolstoy

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  In Book 7 of War and Peace, the shadow of war looms large as Napoleon advances toward Russia. Pierre Bezukhov, disillusioned with society, seeks purpose amidst growing chaos. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, driven by a desire for redemption, returns to the army, leaving behind his complicated relationship with Natasha Rostova, who is struggling with guilt and heartbreak. The Rostov family faces financial strain and prepares to evacuate Moscow, their lives entwined with the nation’s fate. Tolstoy juxtaposes personal dilemmas with the grandeur of impending conflict, exploring themes of duty, sacrifice, and the human condition. As tensions escalate, characters confront their vulnerabilities, setting the stage for the cataclysmic clash at Borodino.

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