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  2. The Nightingale (Hannah novel) - Wikipedia

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    The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation there. The book was inspired by accounts of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots escape Nazi territory. [1] [2] The Nightingale entered multiple bestseller lists upon release. As of ...

  3. Kristin Hannah - Wikipedia

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    Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time, but the book was never published. [5] Hannah's best-selling work, The Nightingale, has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide and has been published in 45 languages. [6] [7] Hannah lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, [8] with her husband and their son.

  4. Arthur Conan Doyle - Wikipedia

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    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.

  5. List of New Thought writers - Wikipedia

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    Charles F. Haanel [39] – The Master Key System (1917); Mental Chemistry (1922); The New Psychology (1924); The Amazing Secrets of the Yogi (1937); A Book About You (1928) Frank Channing Haddock [40] – Power of Will: A Practical Companion Book for the Unfoldment of the Powers of Mind; Manly P. Hall [citation needed] – The Secret Teachings ...

  6. Nightingale (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The Nightingale, a 1988 novel by Kara Dalkey; The Nightingale, the first nursing journal published in 1886; see Nursing literature; The Nightingale (Pinkney book), a 2002 children's picture book by Jerry Pinkney; The Nightingale (Hannah novel), a work of historical fiction by Kristin Hannah; The Nightingales, a 2018 play by William Gaminara

  7. One Morning in May (folk song) - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known text is a Broadside ballad titled "The nightingale's song: or The soldier's rare musick, and maid's recreation" published between 1689 and 1709 by W Onley of London, in the Bodleian Ballad Collection. [9] This text has a pious moral at the end which both later publishers and traditional singers dispensed with. [10] [11]

  8. Laüstic - Wikipedia

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    The reference to a nightingale alludes to the tale of Philomela in Ovid's Metamorphoses on several levels. Philomela embroiders her story in a tapestry much like the lady of Laustic; Philomela herself is transformed into a nightingale at the end of Ovid's story; and as Michelle Freeman suggests, the broken body of the nightingale, which signifies the end of the lovers' communication, is ...

  9. Works by Sarojini Naidu - Wikipedia

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    Her command of poetry had brought her international acclamation, Naidu's literary contribution, particularly for her poems with the themes like patriotism, romanticism and lyric for which she is called "Nightingale of India"—(Bharat Kokila) by Mahatma Gandhi. Her birthday is celebrated in India as National women's day. [4] [5]