October Sale Guide – Historical Fiction

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The Desperate Days

Anna – a Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighter – reluctantly forms a relationship with a Treblinka death camp guard who later is hunted by an Auschwitz survivor seeking revenge for mass murder. The idealistic Anna tells her university friends to meet the German invaders with passive resistance – not violence. Her friends laughed at her. Anna learns the hard way that her approach was suicidal.

All were drinking beer in the cafe, except Anna who had classes.

Absence of Light-Crawford Hill

It is the mid-1800s as Brandon Stewart, a handsome foreign correspondent for The Illustrated London News, prepares to leave England with his wife and young son for the rice plantations of the pre-Civil War South. But as they arrive to join his wife's family at Crawford Hill in Georgetown District, South Carolina, Brandon has no idea of what his future holds. Amid the swelling turbulence of the Deep South,

Brandon and his family attempt to adjust to a new life where slaves share the same house, and the dark shadows of war loom in the near future.

Song of the Boricua

Puerto Rico an island of contradiction, serves as an enchanting backdrop following three generations of women.

Elena: resilient and ambitious, but trapped by duty to her children. Maria: passionate and headstrong, but married to a man she does not love. Josephina: optimistic and romantic, but in love with an alcoholic. Isabella: clairvoyant and spiritual, but denies her heritage and roots.

Like the land, these women are held hostage, unfulfilled and unable to find their happiness. Each generation like the land is cursed. Can they defy the powerful bond of the curse and free themselves to find love everlasting?

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