Transfer Day
A Denmark, Fiction, Cultural book. Dr. Charles Edwin Taylors book, An Island of the Sea published in 1898, although Sophie Schiller, Transfer Day...
"Schiller deftly blends fact and fiction in a page-turner with emotional resonance." -Publishers Weekly During the Great War in 1916, Abigail Maduro is devastated when her parents are killed in a freak accident along the Panama Canal. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, to live with a bad-tempered aunt and her household of eccentric servants. Despite the island's veneer of tranquility, St. Thomas is a hotbed of German spies and saboteurs who use their Hamburg-America Line steamers to aid the Kaiser's war effort. When a mysterious stranger suddenly appears in town, Abigail is drawn into the conflict. In the scholarly Erich Seibold, she finds the friendship she has been craving, even after she learns that Erich is really a deserter from a German U-boat. Their idyllic interlude comes to...
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- Pages: 365 pages
- ISBN: 9780615653433 / 0
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Dr. Charles Edwin Taylors book, An Island of the Sea published in 1898, although Sophie Schiller, Transfer Day //
Transfer Day is an exciting adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Abby is spunky, yet innocent heroine with a big heart and a lot of guts. A cast of distinctive, wonderfully drawn minor characters adds their own, distinctive flavor to this tale as well. I love being immersed in the world of the Caribbean during World... Another good book in a row! Can I pick them or what? Abby is a young girl in the West Indies in 1916. She meets a young German U-boat officer who has deserted. Abby is a great adventuress and gets caught up in spying and mad escapades involving the people Erich is trying to hide from. Ultimately they become friends and save each other's... Enjoying the read so far and am eager to return to the story.
