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It is 1943, and for four years, 16-year-old Stefania has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemsyl, Poland, singing her way into their lives and hearts. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio - a betrothal they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish.

Seventeen-year-old Nadia lives in Canaan, a quiet city in an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls that are constructed of a material no one in her town recognizes. Every 12 years the people of Canaan undergo a collective Forgetting; in the days before, the town devolves into a chaos of bloody violence, and afterward the people are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, their lives. Nadia has never forgotten, however.

In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird - a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird, and it is something that neither should ever be allowed to possess.

Samara doesn't forget. And she isn't the only one. Safe underground in the city of New Canaan, she lives in a privileged world free from the Forgetting. Yet she wonders if she really is free, with the memories that plague her and secrets that surround her. Samara is determined to unearth the answers, even if she must escape to the old, cursed city of Canaan to find them. Someone else is on their way to Canaan, too.... A spaceship from Earth is heading toward the planet, like a figment of the city's forgotten past.

History has a way of repeating itself. In the Sunken City that was once Paris, all who oppose the new revolution are being put to the blade. Except for those who disappear from their prison cells, a red-tipped rook feather left in their place. Is the mysterious Red Rook a savior of the innocent or a criminal? Meanwhile, across the sea in the Commonwealth, Sophia Bellamy's arranged marriage to the wealthy René Hasard is the last chance to save her family from ruin.

The thrilling sequel to Sharon Cameron's blockbuster gothic steampunk romance, The Dark Unwinding, will captivate readers anew with mystery and intrigue aplenty. When Katharine Tulman wakes in the middle of the night and accidentally foils a kidnapping attempt on her uncle, she realizes Stranwyne Keep is no longer safe for Uncle Tully and his genius inventions.

When Katharine Tulman's inheritance is called into question by the rumor that her eccentric uncle is squandering away the family fortune, she is sent to his estate to have him committed to an asylum. But instead of a lunatic, Katharine discovers a genius inventor with his own set of rules, who employs a village of nine hundred people rescued from the workhouses of London.

Die wahre Geschichte von Stefania Podgorska, die während des Zweiten Weltkriegs 13 Jüdinnen und Juden versteckte. Es ist 1943, unter der deutschen Besatzung werden im Namen der "Endlösung" die jüdischen Ghettos in Polen aufgelöst. So auch in Przemyśl, wo die junge Katholikin Stefania Podgorska bis zuletzt für die jüdische Kaufmannsfamilie Diamant gearbeitet hat. Eines Abends klopft es an der Tür: Es ist Max, einer der Söhne der Familie, der es gerade noch geschafft hat, von dem Zug zu springen, der ihn mit seinen Brüdern in ein Vernichtungslager gebracht hätte.

Die wahre Geschichte von Stefania Podgorska, die während des Zweiten Weltkriegs 13 Jüdinnen und Juden versteckte. Es ist 1943, unter der deutschen Besatzung werden im Namen der "Endlösung" die jüdischen Ghettos in Polen aufgelöst. So auch in Przemyśl, wo die junge Katholikin Stefania Podgorska bis zuletzt für die jüdische Kaufmannsfamilie Diamant gearbeitet hat. Eines Abends klopft es an der Tür: Es ist Max, einer der Söhne der Familie, der es gerade noch geschafft hat, von dem Zug zu springen, der ihn mit seinen Brüdern in ein Vernichtungslager gebracht hätte.

It is 1943 and 16-year-old Stefania Podgórska has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemsyl, Poland, for four years. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio - an engagement they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish. But everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for her six-year-old sister. And then comes the knock at the door.

Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city's palette. The "degenerate" art of the Gallery de Smit is confiscated, the artists in hiding or deported, her best friend, Truus, fled to join the shadowy Dutch resistance. And masterpiece by masterpiece, the Nazis are buying and stealing her country's heritage. So when the unpaid taxes threaten her beloved but empty gallery, Isa decides to make the Nazis pay.