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Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORAbendanon, Lucille
Summary: "After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, twelve-year-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-of-war camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and truly be free"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jolly Fish Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC ABEGratz, Alan
Summary: "December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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Summary: "Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ScottNielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NIEMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: "All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated Maggie Hope series as the intrepid spy teams up with fashion designer - and possible double agent - Coco Chanel to bring down the physicist behind Nazi Germany's nuclear program. Maggie Hope has come a long way since she was Mr. Churchill's secretary. In the face of tremendous danger,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2024
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Summary: "To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2024
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Summary: "Shanghai begins when Daniel Lohr, sensing the Nazis closing in on the Jews of Berlin, leaves his dying father and agrees to flee to Shanghai on an Italian passenger ship. His passage is dependent upon him agreeing to deliver a package to his shady uncle upon arrival. Aboard the ship he will meet a woman, Leah, also a Jew fleeing the Nazis. They conduct a passionate but brief shipboard affair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEElliott, Laura
Summary: In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLInouye Huey, Emily
Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INOWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: "London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WINMarney, Ellie
Summary: Kit Sutherland moves to Washington, DC to work as an codebreaker at Arlington Hall, but when she stumbles onto a bloody homicide scene, she joins forces with other girl codebreakers to find the man killing Government girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: Spring, 1942: the United States is reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor. While the US starts sending troops to the front, the March family of Concord, Massachusetts grieves their own enormous loss: the death of their daughter, Beth. The remaining sisters fracture, each going their own way. Jo is nursing her wounds and building planes in Boston. Meg holds down the home front with Marmee. Amy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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Summary: "During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRARobuck, Erika
Summary: "A heart-stopping new novel, based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of WWII, from the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman. Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to resist. 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family's wishes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSepetys, Ruta
Summary: "As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Summary: "On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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Summary: Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . . In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TRISteinberg, Shaina
Summary: Five years after working for the Office of Strategic Services with Nick, whom she gets close to until the World War II' end brings with it an act of deep betrayal, former spy Evelyn, now working as a PI, finds herself back in Nick's orbit when her latest case brings the war to her doorstep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: "From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award-Ronald H. Balson's An Affair of Spies tells of a spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb. Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical physicist. His idyllic childhood was soon marred by increasing levels of bigotry against his family and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022