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Loading... The Award: A Novelby Danielle Steel
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) soosthemoose | Mar 16, 2021 |  This is a book that is worth reading and re-reading. Clear your weekend! ( ) caslater83 | Jun 2, 2019 | ) travelgal | Apr 23, 2019 |  ) MarthaJeanne | Jun 2, 2018 | Enjoy the author's works and know I will enjoy this one. Starts out Giella and she's about to get the award. Chapters go back to when she was 16. Rebecca came from Germany, Giella's best friend. The Jews are being forced from their homes. One day she sees them take Rebecca's family and throw them into a truck and they disappeared. She tracks them down and visits and is able to talk to Rebecca and even gives her a coat with promises to come the next day. She visits through Christmas and for many months later always bringing foods and clothes for the family. Story tells what she had to do to survive and she ends up in the fashion industry. Love hearing of the model world, travel, the art world and the places she visits. Tragedies and there are happy times also from both sides of the ocean. Really enjoyed this book and glad she went on with her life but went back to her past endeavors... Didn't like that the author didn't spend as much time devoted to all of her children... I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( ) jbarr5 | Jun 26, 2017 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Capturing historical events, terrifying moments of danger, tragedy, the price of war, and the invincible spirit of a woman of honor, The Award is a monumental tale from one of our most gifted storytellers�??Danielle Steel's finest, most emotionally resonant novel yet. Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin to occur. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate. The local German military commandant makes Gaëlle's family estate outside Lyon his headquarters. Her father and brother are killed by the Germans; her mother fades away into madness. Trusted friends and employees become traitors. And Gaëlle begins a perilous journey with the French Resistance, hoping to save lives to make up for the beloved friend she could do nothing to help. Taking terrifying risks, Gaëlle becomes a valuable member of the Resistance, fearlessly delivering Jewish children to safety under the eyes of the Gestapo and their French collaborators. Then she is suddenly approached by the German commandant with an astonishing, dangerous plan to save part of France's artistic heritage. Conducted in secret and flawlessly carried out, her missions will mark her for years, when she is falsely accused of collaboration at the end of the war. Orphaned and alone, she begins a new life in Paris, with the ghosts of the past always close at hand. Gaëlle's life will take her from Paris to New York, from a career as a Dior model to marriage and motherhood, unbearable loss, and mature, lasting love. She returns to Paris to run a small museum, honoring victims of the Holocaust. But her label as a collaborator remains, until her granddaughter, a respected political journalist, ensures that her grandmother's brave acts are recognized. Now a grateful nation will finally absolve this remarkable woman and honor her as the war hero she was. From the Hardcover No library descriptions found. |
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