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Martha Hall Kelly
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Lilac Girls
— published 2016 — 10 editions |
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Spring 2016 Debut Fiction Sampler
by Bill Beverly (Goodreads Author), Amber Brock (Goodreads Author), Siobhan MacDonald — published 2016 |
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My daughter Katherine sent me a link to it after she saw my novelfeatured, saying how cute she thought it was.
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"5/5!! Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly is an amazing book based on real people. It focuses on Ravensbruck, the only concentration camp that housed only women. This book explores the horrors that occurred there along with the strength of the human..."
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"Very interesting show of how the war affected Poland. Don't always read about how that country suffered and the aftermath."
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"Loved this book so much. Wonderful strength mixed with sentimentality shared among 3 women. Highly recommended!!!! "
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"AMAZING!!! Could not put this book down. I fell in love with all three main characters and how their stories intertwined. Would definitely suggest this book to other readers! "
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“Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring."
I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.” Stephanie Perkins |
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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!”
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| Highly recommended to me by my developmental editor Alexandra Shelley, Castles Burning did not disappoint. Told from a child's point of view, it brings the period so vividly alive and is poignant, heartbreaking and funny. Having read so many Holocaus ...more | |
“Somewhere in a corner of our hearts, we are always twenty,” I said. How”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
“I’d known I was about to meet the man who’d shatter me like bone china on terra-cotta, I would have slept in. Instead,”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
“If I’d known I was about to meet the man who’d shatter me like bone china on terra-cotta, I would have slept in. Instead,”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
― Martha Hall Kelly, 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.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys
― Alan Bennett, 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.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.
― John W. Campbell Jr.
“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.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“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.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin
― Doris Kearns Goodwin
“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!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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