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\nOrder your copy of&n bsp\;The Forest of Vanishing Stars \;from Ma c&rsquo\;s Backs &ndash\; Books on Coventry: macsbacks.com/book/9781982158934
\nAbout the authors:
\nKristin Harmel is the \;New York Times \;bestselling author of a
dozen novels including \;The Book of Lost Names\, \;
The Winemaker&rsquo\;s Wife\, \;The Room on Rue Amé\;li
e\, and \;The Sweetness of Forgetting. She is also the c
ofounder and cohost of the popular web series\, \;Friends and Fiction.
She lives in Orlando\, Florida.
In The Fo rest of Vanishing Stars\, a young woman\, stolen from her we althy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern E urope\, finds herself alone in 1941 when her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted\, however\, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what&rsquo\;s happening in the outside world\, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest&mdash\;and in turn\, they teach her some surprising lessons ab out opening her heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed a nd escapes into a German-occupied village\, her past and present come toge ther in a shocking collision that could change everything.
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