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    "title": "The Watchmaker of Dachau",
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    "description": "Snow falls and a woman prepares for a funeral she has long expected, yet hoped would never come. As she pats her hair and straightens her skirt, she tells herself this isn\u2019t the first time she\u2019s lost someone. Lifting a delicate, battered wristwatch from a little box on her dresser, she presses it to her cheek. Suddenly, she\u2019s lost in memory\u2026\n\nJanuary 1945, Dachau, Germany. As the train rattles through the bright, snowy Bavarian countryside, the still beauty outside the window hides the terrible scenes inside the train, where men and women are packed together, cold and terrified. Jewish watchmaker Isaac Sch\u00fcller can\u2019t understand how he came to be here, and is certain he won\u2019t be leaving alive.\n\nWhen the prisoners arrive at Dachau concentration camp, Isaac is unexpectedly pulled from the crowd and installed in the nearby household of Senior Officer Becher and his young, pretty, spoiled wife. With his talent for watchmaking, Isaac can be of use to Becher, but he knows his life is only worth something here as long as Becher needs his skills.\n\nAnna Reznick waits table and washes linens for the Bechers, who dine and socialise and carry on as if they don\u2019t constantly have death all around them. When she meets Isaac she knows she\u2019s found a true friend, and maybe more. But Dachau is a dangerous place where you can never take love for granted, and when Isaac discovers a heartbreaking secret hidden in the depths of Becher\u2019s workshop, it will put Anna and Issac in terrible danger\u2026 ",
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