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Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. ![]() In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939-and then sets its sights on France. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, the debut novel Lilac Girls reveals the power of unsung women to change history. ![]() The two authors will be discussing the process of writing historical fiction. Join us for a reading, conversation, and book-signing with Mrtha Hall Kelly and Melanie Benjamin. ![]()
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