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Girls surviveWalliams, David
Summary: "1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY. Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla. But with German bombs raining over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WALNielsen, 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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Summary: Lizzie and Karl's mother, Mutti, working at a local zoo in Dresden, Germany, during World War II while their father is away fighting in France, brings home Marlene, a baby elephant that is slated to be destroyed as the Allied bombing grows closer, and when they are forced to flee, Mutti feels they must take Marlene with them, adding even more danger to their journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends 2013
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Summary: Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the atrocities she has witnessed. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATPoe, Mayumi Shimose
Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POEGriner, Susan
Summary: When the Great Kanto Earthquake strikes Tokyo on September 1, 1923, twelve-year-old Fumiko must navigate the ensuing chaos and confusion in her fight for survival. Includes information about the Great Kanto Earthquake, a glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRIMurata, Kiyoko
Summary: "In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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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 INOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INOBarker, Pat
Summary: "A new novel from the Booker Prize winning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz (her first portrayal of World War II) and reconfirms her place in the very top rank of British novelists. London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARChen, Katherine J.
Summary: "1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChenRobotham, Mandy
Summary: Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern's life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he'd been working undercover as a radio operative - or pianist - for the Dutch resistance, Marnie knows she must complete his mission - no matter the cost. Nazi-occupied Amsterdam: At the other end of the wireless, fellow pianist Corrie Bakker is caught in a dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2023
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Summary: A tale set in World War II London finds a rescue worker struggling for composure after a bombing, a young woman longing for her soldier lover, and a convict who watches a battle through the bars of his window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATChung, Eve J.
Summary: "A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women--and of two countries torn apart by war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BLABlake, Sarah
Summary: In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women--and of two countries torn apart by war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlake, Sarah
Summary: In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women and of two countries torn apart by war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Ausio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLALyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LYOLyons, Annie
Summary: "London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYOLyons, Annie
Summary: "London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LYOLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LYOBowen, Rhys
Summary: "London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks's world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie's beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BOWRyan, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)
Summary: "Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband's selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets her hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left--her clever daughter Betty, who took work there at the first rumbles of war. But when she arrives, Betty's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYABaker, Jo
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman's unraveling during the Blitz-a story of WWII intrigue, love, and danger. It is 1940 and bombs are falling on London. Watching from her attic window, Charlotte sees enemy planes flying in over the city and her neighbours' homes turning to rubble. Still grieving for her beloved brother who never returned from France,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023