Irene is a survivor. This is her true life story. Like Anne Frank, Irene lived through the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, except Irene survived World War 2. She helped hidden Jews who were trying to escape the holocaust, and to find out what the Nazis were hiding she sneaked aboard forbidden trains returning from the Russian front. She watched bombs fall, learned to take shelter, and scrounged to provide for her family in a struggle to survive that continued when world war 2 ended. With the Iron Curtain in place, Irene disguised herself as a boy, hiding in plain sight. She traded in black markets and traveled dangerous ways to provide food and necessities while searching for her missing father. After those three years, nurse training gave Irene a career and lead to her post-WWII young adult love story while under the oppressive Soviet Russian occupation. Always a risk taker, Irene's infractions and her obvious longing for freedom landed her on a watch-list with communist comrades at work. Punishment in a Russian work camp almost killed her, but Irene returned to work where issues arose again and forced her to flee from East to West Berlin in 1953. For years, she suffered from PTSD until beginning this recovery writing and finishing her incredible series. Today she lives in the U.S., and all three of her historic survivor books (My WWII Childhood, Years Hidden As a Boy, and Journey to Freedom) are in this one volume, similar to a boxed-set with bonus material. Extras included are WW2 European maps, a WWII and Holocaust timeline, and historic images not in previous books in the series.
Solve a murder, save her mother, and stop the apocalypse? No problem. She has a foul-mouthed troll on her side. For Austin homicide detective Leira Berens, happy is running down bad guys and solving crimes. And she’s damn good at it. Which is why when the Light Elf prince is murdered, the king breaks a centuries old treaty and crosses between worlds to seek her help. Wait a min...
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