How can the words of the past help heal the horror of the present?For as long as she can remember, Barbara Spiel has always found solace in books. Born in Germany and having come of age in a tumultuous era, she flees her home country as the Nazis rise to power in the early 1930s. Her destination? Madrid. There shes determined to realize her longheld dream of opening a bookshop and creating a safe haven for young idealists and independent thinkers to come together to transform the world.Yet Spain isnt immune from its own troubles. The winds of change are blowing through both city and countryside, and its impossible to predict what will happen. When the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts Barbara and everyone around her in perilincluding the Spanish Socialist parliamentarian shes fallen deeply in love withthe terror and hatred seem all too familiar. Its like Germany all over again, only with its own cast of extremist characters.Hounded simultaneously by Stalinist checas, Francoist Facists, and the German Gestapo, Barbara fights to keep her bookstore the safe haven that shes always imagined it would be. But with war brewing both inside Spain and outside its borders throughout the entirety of Europeand beyondBarbara isnt sure who exactly she can trust, or if people really are who they claim to be.A story told with tremendous heart and astonishing historical accuracy, A Bookseller in Madrid is ultimately a story about dreamsdreaming with courage when nothing seems to make...

Binding: Paperback;306 pages; Publisher: Thomas Nelson, Inc.; Classification: FA; Weight: 376 g; Dimensions: 139 x 213 x 20

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