02286cam a2200361 i 4500 328960773 TxAuBib 20170928120000.0 160407s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2016016781 9781410491732 31.99 1410491730 31.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Kelly, Martha Hall. Lilac girls [LARGE PRINT] / Martha Hall Kelly. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016. 707 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort in France grows and she eventually comes to hear about the dire situation at the Ravensbruck all-female concentration camp. At the same time, Kasia's carefree youth is quickly slipping away, only to be replaced by a fervor for the Polish resistance movement. Through Ravensbruck - and the horrific atrocities taking place there told in part by an infamous German surgeon, Herta Oberheuser - the two women's lives will converge in unprecedented ways and a novel of redemption and hope emerges that is breathtaking in scope and depth". 20171031. Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Women Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Nazis Europe Fiction. Poland History Occupation, 1939-1945 Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Large print books. Historical fiction.