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Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families-- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken.
Summary: Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, Welsh--enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLShoemaker, Karen Gettert
Summary: "Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOSimonson, Helen
Summary: It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding in search of a position after the death of her father. Agatha's nephews, meanwhile, have come to spend the summer months, as always, both with dreams of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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Summary: "1919: The war is over, but peace is yet to come. As men are demobbed, women must give up positions that gave them freedom. Edward is given an important job at the Peace Conference in Paris, but it means more lonely months away from Beattie and his hoped-for reconciliation. Fred's unit is sent to the Rhine, and Cook feels a guilty relief that her uprooting has been postponed. Laura's friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHertmans, Stefan
Summary: "In this vivid and masterful novel, a Flemish man reconstructs his grandfather's story--his life, loves, and art, all disrupted by the first World War--from the unflinching notebooks he left behind. Short Description War and Turpentine centers on two men distanced by time: a religious painter whose life is changed forever by World War One; and his grandson, a writer reckoning with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERSolomons, Natasha
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I. Vienna, 1911. Twenty-one-year-old Greta Goldbaum has always hungered after what's forbidden: secret university lectures, unseemly trumpet lessons, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Solomons 2018Buck, Pearl S
Summary: A slave bride of a Chinese laborer devotes herself to her husband's family, but when civil war in China brings wealth to the family, her happiness is endangered as her husband brings home a second wife. "This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUCMeissner, Susan
Summary: "From the darkest hours rises life in all its glory...From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love. In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEICopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Meissner 2018Franck, Julia.
Summary: A multi-generational family story set in the Germany of the early twentieth century that reveals the devastating effect of war on the human heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAGautreaux, Tim.
Summary: Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World War I. Once there, Randolph finds that By is a shell of his former self--and that the murderous cartel controlling the mill's casino won't give them any peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUJacobs, Anna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACUrquhart, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URQCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC URQDonnelly, Jennifer.
Summary: In 1914, with World War I approaching, polar explorer Seamus Finnegan tries to forget Willa, a passionate mountain climber, as he marries a beautiful young woman back home in England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONHarrigan, Stephen
Summary: Landing a commission by taciturn rancher Lamar Clayton to create a memorial statue of a son killed in World War I, proud artistic exile Francis "Gil" Gilheany and his daughter realize that Lamar is guarding a secret that parallels a lie Gil fears may cost him his daughter's love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARDonnelly, Jennifer.
Summary: In 1914, with World War I approaching, polar explorer Seamus Finnegan tries to forget Willa, a passionate mountain climber, as he marries a beautiful young woman back home in England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: The year is 1915, and the war is raging on, in this second book in the new series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. The series is an epic family drama set against the evocative backdrop of World War I, with a book a year for each year of the war. Set against the real events of 1915, this is a rich and wonderfully depicted drama featuring the Hunter family and their servants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: In 1918 the Great War has taken so much from so many and it threatens to take even more still from the Hunters, their friends and their servants. Edward, in a bid to run away from problems at home, decides not to resist conscription and ends up at the Front. Sadie's hopes for love are unrequited, and Laura has to flee Artemis House when it is shelled and she finds herself in London driving an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHelfer, Monika
Summary: "The multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, Maria is left to provide for her family alone. Every day is a struggle against starvation, the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia.
Summary: It is 1916 and the Hunters, their friends and their servants are settling down to the business of war. As conscription reaches into every household, Britain turns out men and shells in industrial numbers from army camps and munitions factories up and down the land. Bobby, the second Hunter son, gains his wings and joins his brother in France. Ethel, the under housemaid, embarks on a quest and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Harrod-Eagles 2016Hawker, Olivia
Summary: Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place. Until her husband's infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point. Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she's known. A coal train is rolling through the valley. With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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Summary: Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place. Until her husband's infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point. Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she's known. A coal train is rolling through the valley. With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 0000