Showing results for "The Book of Judith" in 20th Century

Paris, 1939. Le destin d'Emily Ann Saxby, une riche Américaine, bascule quand elle fait la rencontre d'un révolutionnaire traqué par les nazis. Alors que la guerre incendie l'Europe, Cécile Maltais, jeune Canadienne française, est recrutée par les services secrets britanniques. Des décennies plus tard, une romancière accepte d'écrire la biographie d'une espionne, tandis qu'un pasteur récemment libéré de prison reçoit les confidences douloureuses d'une paroissienne centenaire.

In a quiet forest in Belarus, two boys stumble across a long-kept secret: the mass grave where Stalin's police secretly murdered thousands in the 1930s. The results of the subsequent investigation have far-reaching effects, and across the Atlantic in Toronto, Leah Jarvis, a lively, curious young lawyer, finds herself tasked with an impossible case: the deportation of elderly Stefan Drozd, who fled his crimes in Kurapaty for a new identity in Canada.

Lanie Freeman had to grow up fast. Her mother died when she was just fourteen and now her father is in prison. The oldest of five children, seventeen-year-old Lanie has transformed into a surrogate mother … and a beautiful young woman. Not only must she keep her family together, but lately she...