The Sandcastle Girls A Novel
eBook - 2012
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a sweeping historical love story that probes the depths of love, family, and secrets amid the Armenian Genocide during WWI.When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. It’s 1915, and Elizabeth has volunteered to help deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian Genocide during the First World War. There she meets Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. After leaving Aleppo and traveling into Egypt to join the British Army, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, realizing that h...e has fallen in love with the wealthy young American. Years later, their American granddaughter, Laura, embarks on a journey back through her family’s history, uncovering a story of...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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- English
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 5 GB |
ISBN | 9780385534802 |
Release Date | 7/17/2012 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B0076PGMPY |
Release Date | 7/17/2012 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780385534802 |
Release Date | 7/17/2012 |