Martha Hall Kelly
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Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1)
98 editions
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2016
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Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)
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2019
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Sunflower Sisters (Lilac Girls, #3)
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2021
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The Golden Doves
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2023
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Naomi's Gift (A Point in Time, #1)
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2022
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The Munich Cowboys Cheerleaders
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Woolsey-Ferriday 3 Book Set by Martha Hall Kelly: Sunflower Sisters, Lost Roses, Lilac Girls
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The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club
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The Golden Doves is here! This was a fascinating book to write since I finally got to include so many things that I found when researching my first novel Lilac Girls and wanted to explore further: the thousands of Nazis who escaped justice on the “Ra ...more | |
"Based on true events this story centers around two women who gather Nazi secrets for the French resistance. Josie and Arlette are part of the Golden Doves hunted by the Gestapo, and are eventually arrested and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, "
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"I started this book and was instantly pulled into the story. I love a historical fiction that leads me straight to google AND one that makes me want to flip through an author's backlist to look for characters I already know. The Golden Doves did both"
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"Inspired by actual events, Martha Hall Kelly's latest, THE GOLDEN DOVES —is a riveting story of two former female spies, bound together by their past, as they risk everything to hunt down a Nazi doctor in the aftermath of WWII.
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“retrouvailles, another one of those words that do not translate into English, which means “the happiness of meeting someone you love again after a long time.”
― Lilac Girls
― Lilac Girls
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
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“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
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“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
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“If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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