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2022

Format:	Large Print, Book
Author:	Robards, Karen, author.
Title:	The girl from Guernica / Karen Robards.
Edition:	Large print edition.
Publisher, Date:	Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2022. ©2022
Description:	693 pages (large print) ; 23 cm large print (16 point)
Summary:	On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family is caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage. When Germany claims no involvement in the attack, Griff guides Sibi to lie to Nazi officials. If she or her sisters reveal that they saw planes bearing swastikas, the gestapo will silence them. As war begins to rage across Europe, Sibi joins the underground resistance, secretly exchanging information with Griff. And as Sibi is drawn deeper into a web of secrets, she must find a way to outwit an enemy that threatens to decimate her family once and for all.
Series:	Thorndike Press large print basic
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Fiction. Sisters -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction. Guernica (Spain) -- History -- Bombardment, 1937 -- Fiction.
Genre:	Large type books. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Spy fiction. War fiction.
ISBN:	9781432896201 (large print ; hardcover) 1432896202 (large print ; hardcover)
OCLC:	1311111162
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Among the 59 men who signed the death warrant that led to the beheading of King Charles I, Gen. Edward Whalley and his son-in-law Col. William Goffe flee to 1600s New England in an attempted Act of Oblivion when the royalists regain power, pursued by the secretary of the regicide committee, in internationally best-selling Harris's first substantial departure to North America's shores (75,000-copy first printing). In the New York Times best-selling Robards's The Girl from Guernica, 17-year-old Sibil's mother and sister are killed in the German bombing of Guernica, and with two other sisters she joins her scientist father in Germany, where he works on jet propulsion engines for the Nazis and secretly helps the Resistance (50,000-copy first printing). Having spent their lives rehearsing strenuously On the Rooftop to achieve their mother's dream of stardom, sisters Ruth, Esther, and Chloe--known as the Salvations--are having dreams of their own even as their Black neighborhood 1950s San Francisco resists gentrification in this latest from National Book Award finalist Sexton (150,000-copy first printing). West's follow-up to her striking debut, Saving Ruby King, The Two Lives of Sara features a young, unwed Black mother who flees Chicago for Memphis during the tumultuous Civil Rights era, finding refuge at sweet Mama Sugar's boardinghouse and possible love with schoolteacher Jonas--all of which could be jeopardized by a secret from Mama Sugar's past (75,000-copy first printing).

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