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Broken Wings by ellieerose_
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It started on a night with broken glass. First the glass, then the screams, and then the blood. And then, their lives were changed forever. It marked the beginning of her brother's suffering. As Else Schüffen struggles to define everything that is happening around her in Germany 1941, Maximilian faces a different kind of struggle. An adopted Jew in a Christian family, Max faces betrayal and loss, forgiveness and anger. Being a divided family with a Nazi as a brother, his fears become a reality. He must go into hiding, but with a different identity: Henrik Brandenburg, an Aryan shopkeeper. And then there's Else, a young Aryan girl, in the midst of her brother's tumult. Painting, it seems, is the only way of escape, and the only way to keep her brother, Maximilian, in her heart forever. Through it all, there is one thing she learns. Sometimes, in order to survive, we must repair our broken wings and learn to fly again~ #39 in historical fiction//March 29th Edited by the lovely @jgfairytales
Forget Me Not, Books I, II and III by AllisonWhitmore
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Are you defined by who you were born to or who you choose to become? Theodora "Teddi" Donovan's overprotective grandmother forbids her to see Calvin Wynne, an orphan tied to their family's shameful past, but when they find a way to see each other without the iron-fisted woman knowing, Teddi and Calvin fall in love while discovering there are much darker forces in their sleepy town threatening to pull them apart. *** Forget Me Not tells the story of the people we can't help but love no matter how much the world tells us not to. Forget Me Not, Books I and II are posted together and the first two novellas of three. Book III will be up again after a long hiatus soon!
Lost in Austen: Reborn by authortkkhan
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in ownership of her life must be in want of a husband. However little known the feelings or views of such a woman may be on her first entering into a relationship." Not true for London dweller Amanda Price. Instead of finding the man of her dreams, she can think of nothing better than reading Pride and Prejudice daily after coming home from her dead-end job. But, she gets lost in her favorite novel when her mirror becomes a portal and sucks her into a parallel universe where she is Elizabeth Bennet! She soon finds herself tangled in the lives of The Bennet Family and Mr. Darcy. How can she get back to her world without upsetting the most cherished romance novel of all-time?
The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by keyframed
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WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-old Ethan Harper's parents send him to Ellison, Alabama, to live with his aunt and uncle for the summer. But the year is 1955, and Alabama is a far cry from his beloved home of Arcadia, Washington. As much as it's hotter in temperature, it's colder in every other way, and Ethan learns the hard way that people see his mere existence as a threat. Amidst all the mayhem, a fiery, free-spirited, oddball walks into Ethan's life. Her name is Juniper Jones. She is the first person in Ellison who seems unfazed by their racial differences, and she promises to give Ethan a summer he will always remember, filled with endless adventure and discovery. With Juniper, Ethan can breathe, he can be, despite the incessant attention and bullying their newly formed friendship attracts. Can the two survive the summer, run in the light and block out the noise of the outside world? [Published version comes out June 16, 2020 with Wattpad Books!] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]
Audrey Hepburn's Pearls: Part I by SumireHime
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Part one of two. In 1967, George was the legendary Georgina Monroe, the best Marilyn Monroe drag impersonator New York City had ever seen. But in 1994, George is a recluse who is scared of everyone and everything. Enter Ruiz, a young Latina pageant drag queen known as Audrey the Ritz, famous for her Audrey Hepburn impersonation. Since she was fourteen, she had admired Georgina Monroe's career obsessively, always wondering about why she disappeared so suddenly. During a chance encounter, Ruiz gets to meet George, and through a gentle friendship and a strong bond, Ruiz starts to uncover a story she never could have imagined in her worst nightmares. Stories of the mob, glamour, love, heartbreak, addiction, murder,and intensely dangerous secrets abound in this lgbt novel about ever present issues that pervade throughout time. Told through voices young and old, we follow the story of Georgina and Ruiz as witnesses to truths that are rarely told.
Becoming Miss Lee  by TheInsensibleLizzie
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She never wanted anything more than to be loved, but providence had something else in store for the young Beatrice Fisher. Orphaned and then adopted by the Lee Family of Virginia, she looked to have a life filled with happiness, but when her friend Nathan Hale steps back into her life and the taxes spark the battles of Lexington and Concord, her life will never be the same. She finds herself at the epicenter of the British Empire when she agrees to spy for the Continental Commander George Washington and is almost swept off her feet by the handsome and charming John André. Her adventures don't cease with the Battle of Yorktown. Thrown back into regular life with haunting images of her past, Bea finds herself needing to settle down. With her dear friends embroiled in politics, Bea finds herself in a dizzying waltz in a brand new world filled with new faces and excitement, but can she find the one thing she wants most of all? Can she find love amid the scandal and frightening pace of her new life or will her greatest nightmare of being unloved and alone finally be realized?
The Undesirables (Sample Chapter) by thumandgloom
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(Chapter 1 only) In the winter of 1941-1942, Leningrad is under siege, and Karen Hamilton, a seventeen-year-old American musician, finds herself trapped and struggling to survive. Throughout the city, people are dying of starvation and frostbite, and Karen knows that if she doesn't escape immediately, she will share their fate. If she has any hope of leaving Russia and reuniting with her fiancé, Bobby, in New York, she must do the impossible: cross enemy lines and then stow away. On her harrowing journey, Karen encounters Petr, a young conscripted Russian soldier. She isn't sure she can trust him-he is equally wary of her. But as the two join forces in order to stay alive, an unexpected romance takes root. Now, as Karen gets closer to the reality of escape, she has a choice to make: Will she return to a safe life in America with Bobby, or remain in war-torn Russia with Petr? This is a sample chapter of the book that will be available October 18 from Lake Union Publishing.
Prosper (War Shadows: Book 1) SAMPLE by SicSemperT-Rex
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- A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY - The year is 1942. War has been raging across Europe for nearly two years now, and the Nazis, hell-bent on expanding their empire and anti-Semitic views, are winning. Only Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union are left to fight them, now. For Evelyn McIntyre, the war is just beginning. She's about to be dropped into enemy occupied France with a rough-and-tumble Jewish man by the name of Gene Rosenberg to fight the Nazis. However, they don't fight in long, drawn-out battles in which the enemy they're fighting is clear. They fight a secret war, one that could prove to be just as deadly as the war the rest of the world sees. This is a sample! The full book can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Prosper-War-Shadows-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07GV8DJ3M/ref=pd_ybh_a_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=XYC4FGB7X9WA8T96K36P