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A Light in the Window: A completely gripping WW2 historical novel with a heartbreaking twist (Margarete's Journey Book 1)

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I am looking forward to reading more in the storyline and to continue to see the evolving characters! A notebook of poems leads her to the mysterious and beautiful Sophia, whose tragic love affair changed the course of her family history. Margarete Rosenbaum, a maltreated Jewish maid, takes advantage of the results of an Allied bombing of Berlin to become Annegret Huber, the spoiled daughter of her employer, an upper class Nazi family. The whole time I was reading this, I just kept thinking in the back of my mind, "which celebrities would I cast as these two main characters/" I just kept thinking Carroll O'Conner (Archie Bunker) and Laura Bush as Cynthia.

Without preaching, it successfully delivers the method of the utmost simplicity, something of which I think our Father would approve. She penned her first novel when she was 10 years old, the same year she won a short-story contest organized by the local high school. Edward looks out of the window into the dark night (and wonders what is mother is up to prancing about in the dark and trying to take photos of sparklers). If you ever need a break from the hurried pace of life and the incessant voice telling you to keep going faster and faster, Mitford is a excellent place to visit. To be sure, Father Tim quotes plenty of scripture - especially to his big floppy dog, Barnabus (the only way to keep Barnabus from jumping on you is to quote a verse from the Bible; amazingly, Barnabus immediately sits or lies down upon hearing scripture.The author creates realistic characters, exposes the diabolical Nazi belief system and its devastating effects, especially for its primary victims, the Jews. Light in the Window (also known as Light in the Window: The Art of Vermeer) is a 1952 short film directed by Jean Oser. Windows or doors within the dimensions 212 cm width and/or 212 cm height or larger will be delivered with HIAB. If one hasn't read these books, that's a pretty good assessment, which is to say that it is totally incorrect.

I found there to be a lot of repetition initially as to how Margarete felt about the decision she had made. UNRELENTING is the story about her grandparents, who belonged to the German resistance and fought against the Nazi regime. This novel deals with some heavy and complicated topics and ideas and I knew that going into it, I wasn't expecting a light read but I was expecting to be at least slightly sympathetic towards the love interest. If you like the first in the series, keep reading because you will be comforted by the characters and will want to see who is added to the "family. I really enjoyed reading Marion Kummerow's previous book, Not Without My Sister, so when I saw that she had written another story set during WWII, I quickly signed on.

Margarete's actions take her from one extreme to the next and it makes for some truly harrowing reading.

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