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Barcode34444002740272
Circ StatusAvailable
LibraryBeaver Falls
TitleA place to hide : a novel / Ronald H. Balson.
AuthorBalson, Ronald H., author.
Call NoFic Balson
CollectionFiction
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781250282484
International Standard Book Number 1250282489
Personal Name Balson, Ronald H., author.
Title Statement A place to hide : a novel / Ronald H. Balson.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
Physical Description 293 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. "Theodore "Teddy" Hartigan is the scion of a wealthy Washington, D.C. family who place him into a comfortable job at the State Department and a placid diplomat's career. In 1938, as Hitler's inexorable rise continues, Teddy is re-assigned to the US Consulate in Amsterdam to replace fleeing staff. Teddy's job is to process visa applications, and by 1939, refugees from Nazi-conquered Poland, Austria, and other countries are desperate to secure safe passage to America. As Hitler sweeps through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Holland, the screws tighten and law after virulent law is passed to threaten the lives, indeed the very existence of the Jewish people. When Teddy and his girlfriend Sara are introduced to an orphaned young girl named Katy, who has been abandoned on the grounds of a nursery school, they agree to adopt her. Teddy comes to realize that he holds the key to saving lives, whether five, fifty, or five hundred--and makes the dangerous and selfless decision to join with underground groups and use his position at the Consulate to rescue those with no other avenue of escape."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Orphans Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Americans Netherlands Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Netherlands Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Jewish refugees Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Diplomats United States Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Adoption Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Amsterdam (Netherlands) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Netherlands Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.
Index Term-Genre/Form War fiction.