5 best-selling world war ii books like Leonora in the Morning Light by Michaela Carter

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Leonora in the Morning Light

By: Michaela Carter

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Amy Bloom’s White Houses and Colm Tóibín’s The Master, a “gorgeously written, meticulou…

"It was either opportunity or integrity. Women, it seemed, were more often pressed to choose between them."

-Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

"Art is something one does, she decides, not something one needs to talk about. It exists without explanation. Everyone will have their own interpretation anyway."

-Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

"With certain people you know the moment you meet them that you will be friends. Something opens between you, like a clearing in the woods where before there were trees."

-Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

If you liked the world war ii plot in Leonora in the Morning Light by Michaela Carter , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

By: John O'Donohue

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging. John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you… read more

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2. Spinner

By: Benedict Wells

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • novels
  • fiction
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3. Judgment Calls (Samantha Kincaid #1)

By: Alafair Burke

3.98

Format: None pages,

A seemingly simple assault case spirals into a complex web of violence and deception in this bold d… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Life with Picasso

By: Françoise Gilot

4.09

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she … read more

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  • art
  • france
"...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude."

-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

"And you, you’re an angel,’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of my subjects. I think I’ll brand you."

-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

"My grandmother's death had given me a heightened sense of individual solitude, of each one of us walking towards his own death, with no one able to help us or hold us back."

-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

"As I was growing up, whenever anything frightened me in any degree, it fascinated me at the same time. I felt the need of going too far simply to prove to myself that I was capable of it."

-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

5. The Gods of Tango

By: Carolina De Robertis

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Hardcover

From one of the leading lights of contemporary Latin American literature--a lush, lyrical, deeply m… read more

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6. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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7. The Age of Light

By: Whitney Scharer

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She went to Paris to start over, to make art instead of being made into it. A captivating debut … read more

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  • art
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"I think the world..the world continues just goes on doing what it does whether I take a picture or not. My art--it's about choosing when I release the shutter. It's not about setting up a scene and m…"

-Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light

"I think the world..the world continues just goes on doing what it does whether I take a picture or not. My art--it's about choosing when I release the shutter. It's not about setting up a scene and m…"

-Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light

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8. Het meisje met de halve ster

By: Judith Visser

4.46

Format: 619 pages, Kindle Edition

Het is mei 1940 en Rotterdam staat in brand. De half-Joodse Debra overleeft het verwoestende bombar… read more

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  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Dat was waar de oorlog nu op neer was gekomen: op wat voor manier dan ook zorgen dat we in leven bleven. En was dat eigenlijk niet de krachtigste daad van verzet die er maar bestond?"

-Judith Visser, Het meisje met de halve ster

"Tot snel,’ zei Jilles. We wisten allemaal dat ‘snel’ niets minder betekende dan het zo begeerde ‘na de oorlog’, het paradijselijke vooruitzicht dat een soort hiernamaals voor levenden was geworden. H…"

-Judith Visser, Het meisje met de halve ster

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9. Wat stilte wil

By: Arthur Japin

3.73

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Zingen is Anna’s grote geluk. Zij heeft de stem, de opleiding en het talent en de ambitie, maar in … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Call of the Wrens

By: Jenni L. Walsh

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Introducing the little-known story of the daring women who rode through war-torn Europe, carrying s… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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11. A Wild and Heavenly Place

By: Robin Oliveira

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Mary Sutter comes a sweeping story of star… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Ein Sommer in Niendorf

By: Heinz Strunk

3.59

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Das neue Buch von Heinz Strunk erzählt eine Art norddeutsches «Tod in Venedig», nur sind die Verloc… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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13. The Bohemians

By: Jasmin Darznik

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers, Dorothea Lange, exploring the w… read more

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  • art
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"Live every day as if you might be struck blind--that was the rule I made for myself now. In those first few days after the quarantine was lifted, we went around marveling at the smallest things, as i…"

-Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians

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14. Lungfish

By: Meghan Gilliss

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Jenny Offill, Marilynne Robinson, and Claire-Louise Bennett, Lungfish is the shimmer… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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15. Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2)

By: Marta Molnar

4.35

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she’s been a horse walker, a milliner’s assistant, a … read more

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  • art
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)

By: Claire North

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Alchemy of a Blackbird

By: Claire McMillan

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Age of Light and Z, a mystical, historical novel based on the true story of the twe… read more

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  • art
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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18. The Trap (Alias Emma, #3)

By: Ava Glass

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

British spy Emma Makepeace races against the clock to stop the Russians from carrying out a high-pr… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Peggy

By: Rebecca Godfrey

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the a… read more

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  • art
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Leonora in the Morning Light

By: Michaela Carter

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Amy Bloom’s White Houses and Colm Tóibín’s The Master, a “gorgeously written, meticulou… read more

Similar categories in Michaela Carter's Leonora in the Morning Light book and Michaela Carter's Leonora in the Morning Light

  • art
  • feminism
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"It was either opportunity or integrity. Women, it seemed, were more often pressed to choose between them."

-Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

"Art is something one does, she decides, not something one needs to talk about. It exists without explanation. Everyone will have their own interpretation anyway."

-Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

"With certain people you know the moment you meet them that you will be friends. Something opens between you, like a clearing in the woods where before there were trees."

-Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

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21. Johanna: De vrouw die Vincent van Gogh beroemd maakte

By: Silke Riemann

3.36

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Johanna's kortstondige, stormachtige huwelijk met kunsthandelaar Theo van Gogh betekent een leven i… read more

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Spinner

Benedict Wells

3.00

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Judgment Calls (Samantha Kincaid #1)

Alafair Burke

3.98

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Whitney Scharer

3.57

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Het meisje met de halve ster

Judith Visser

4.46

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4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Lisa See

4.36

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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