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PASSIONS OF THE GRANDE DAME HOTEL IBD

DEBY EISENBERG
DEBORAH EISENBERG
09 / 2022
9798986621609
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CAPTIVATING HISTORICAL FICTIONThe fascinating saga of Palm BeachâÇÖs Breakers Hotel includes its conversion to a World War II army hospital, where over a dozen babies were born. Passions and Fires will forever change the lives of three women, whose heartrending journeys weave through the timeline of the resort.It isáFebruary 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Addie, the daughter of the assistant manager of the most beautiful resort in America, lives at The Breakers Hotel. Walking the beach, she and her friend, Natalie, are bemoaning their world becoming devoid of its young men, as they are called to serve. And then the girls witness an explosion. German submarines have begun torpedoing Allied merchant ships right off the Atlantic shore. Soon, the area becomes one of the most active military centers in the nation, with thousands of soldiers stationed right at their doorstep in Palm Beach County.In February 1975, Manhattanite Beth Morgan is distraught over a broken engagement. Her society mother dismisses her problem and insists that Beth accompany her to Florida.áWhen they join an historical hotel tour while waiting for their suite at The Breakers, BethâÇÖs mother has a strange reaction to the handsome docentâÇÖs words, and Beth begins to wonder if that is why they have come. Could she have been one of the babies born at the Breakers Hotel? From the story of AddieâÇÖs alluring mother, Rebecca, a Russian Jewish immigrant in theá1920s, whose fiancé disappears when she follows him to America, to the tragedy of NatalieâÇÖs boyfriend in the war, it is a tale of love and loss, separations and reunions, guilt and absolution. It is a story of the American Dream and the power of passion.

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