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My Enemy's Cradle
by Young, Sara
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151015376
- ISBN 13
- 9780151015375
- Seller
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Monroe, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Orlando, FL, USA: Harcourt, Inc., 2008 clean and tight and square, some discoloration on the front and back covers, inside is clean and unmarked; DJ has no chips, creases or tears, edges very slightly bumped, spine is slightly faded
Synopsis
Cyrla's neighbors have begun to whisper. Her cousin, Anneke, is pregnant and has passed the rigorous exams for admission to the Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies. But Anneke's soldier has disappeared , and Lebensborn babies are only ever released to their father's custody-- or taken away. A note is left under the mat. Someone knows that Cyrla, sent from Poland years before for safekeeping with her Dutch relatives, is Jewish. The Nazis are imposing more and more restrictions; she won't be safe there for long. And then in the space of an afternoon, life falls apart. Cyrla must choose between certain discovery in her cousin's home and taking Anneke's place in the Lebensborn--Cyrla and Anneke are nearly identical. If she takes refuge in the enemy's lair, can Cyrla fool the doctors, nurses, guards, and other mothers-to-be? Can she escape before they discover she is not who she claims? Mining a lost piece of history, Sara Young takes us deep into the lives of women living in the worst of times. Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must often make to survive, MY ENEMY'S CRADLE keens for what we lose in war and sings for the hope we sometimes find.
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- Bookseller
- Book Nook Monroe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 308250
- Title
- My Enemy's Cradle
- Author
- Young, Sara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151015376
- ISBN 13
- 9780151015375
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Date Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 365
- Size
- 8vo - over 7 3/4 - 9 3/4" tall
- Keywords
- NETHERLANDS, GERMAN OCCUPATION, WORLD WAR II, FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - General; Fiction - Historical;
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Book Nook Monroe
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We were a small independent new & used bookstore established in 1969 in historic downtown Monroe, Michigan. As of September 2021 we have closed the store to the the public and have transitioned to on-line selling only. We are diligently (most days) trying to add hundreds & hundreds of (so far ignored) books in two storage units along with the new books left in our inventory. This is gonna take awhile - stay tuned.
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