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LocationOakland
Call NoF STE
TitleFar from home / Danielle Steel.
AuthorSteel, Danielle, author.
Barcode529832
CollectionLarge Print Fiction
Summary"In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half French, half German, she is happy to be back in France, where her husband, Gregor, a retired colonel, will join her soon from Germany. Arielle and Gregor have thus far been able to hide their private opposition to Hitler. Then her world falls apart. She receives word that Gregor was part of Operation Valkyrie, a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Poland, and has been shot as a traitor. Now, holding a French passport handed to her by another high-level collaborator, she is whisked away from Paris under cover of darkness for her own safety. As the Allies storm the beaches, she goes into hiding in a small village in Normandy under an assumed name, unable to contact her adult children. There, she forms a friendship with Sebastien Renaud, whose wife and daughter were deported in 1941, and who eventually reveals himself as a forger in the Resistance. As war wages on, Arielle and Sebastien work for the Resistance and hold out for the time when they can search for their loved ones."-- Provided by publisher.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9798217083534 (paperback : large print)
Personal Name Steel, Danielle, author.
Title Statement Far from home / Danielle Steel.
Edition Statement Large print edition.
Imprint New York : Random House Large Print, [2025], ©2025.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Random House Large Print, [2025]
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice ©2025.
Physical Description 288 p. (lg print) ; Softcover 24 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier.
Physical Medium large print rda.
Summary, Etc. "In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half French, half German, she is happy to be back in France, where her husband, Gregor, a retired colonel, will join her soon from Germany. Arielle and Gregor have thus far been able to hide their private opposition to Hitler. Then her world falls apart. She receives word that Gregor was part of Operation Valkyrie, a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Poland, and has been shot as a traitor. Now, holding a French passport handed to her by another high-level collaborator, she is whisked away from Paris under cover of darkness for her own safety. As the Allies storm the beaches, she goes into hiding in a small village in Normandy under an assumed name, unable to contact her adult children. There, she forms a friendship with Sebastien Renaud, whose wife and daughter were deported in 1941, and who eventually reveals himself as a forger in the Resistance. As war wages on, Arielle and Sebastien work for the Resistance and hold out for the time when they can search for their loved ones."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Interpersonal relations Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Widows Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 France Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Large type book.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction. lcgft.
Index Term-Genre/Form Large type books. lcgft.
Index Term-Genre/Form Romance fiction. lcgft.