04273cam a2200769 4500 791111803 TxAuBib 20230504120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593332856 0593332857 B0B7LR66DF Amazon 9340d7b8-cd3f-4a68-8a52-700bde8beeb6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9140778 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib MEISSNER, SUSAN. Only the Beautiful [Libby]. Penguin Publishing Group, 2023. family. literary fiction. Historical. motherhood. romance. Fiction. mothers. novels. women. Historical Fiction. mystery. Drama. Women's Fiction. England. WWII. feminism. literature. Alternate History. fiction books. fantasy. historical novels. mothers day. books for women. historical books. historical fiction novels. books for mom. mothers day books. mothers day gifts. mom gifts. gifts for mom. gifts for women. historical fiction books. gifts for her. books historical fiction. realistic fiction books. women gifts. books fiction. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1816kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune that tear them apart by the <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author of <i>The Nature of Fragile Things</i> and <i>The Last Year of the War</i>.</b><br /> &#160;<br /> <i>California, 1938—</i>When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser’s daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert’s spacious house with a secret, however—Rosie sees colors when she hears sound. She promised her mother she’d never reveal her little-understood ability to anyone, but the weight of her isolation and grief prove too much for her. Driven by her loneliness she not only breaks the vow to her mother, but in a desperate moment lets down her guard and ends up pregnant. Banished by the Calverts, Rosanne believes she is bound for a home for unwed mothers, and having lost her family she treasures her pregnancy as the chance for a future one. But she soon finds out she is not going to a home of any kind, but to a place far worse than anything she could have imagined.&#160;<br /> <i>Austria, 1947—</i>After witnessing firsthand Adolf Hitler’s brutal pursuit of hereditary purity—especially with regard to “different children”—Helen Calvert, Truman's sister, is ready to return to America for good. But when she arrives at her brother’s peaceful vineyard after decades working abroad, she is shocked to learn what really happened nine years earlier to the vinedresser’s daughter, a girl whom Helen had long ago befriended. In her determination to find Rosanne, Helen discovers that while the war had been won in Europe, there are still terrifying battles to be fought at home. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-05-04 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9340d7b8-cd3f-4a68-8a52-700bde8beeb6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9340d7b8-cd3f-4a68-8a52-700bde8beeb6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9340d7b8-cd3f-4a68-8a52-700bde8beeb6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)