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Moore, Heather B.

Summary: "Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java--living with other Dutch...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOO

Morris, Heather

1 hold on 8 copies

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Braun, Eric

Summary: An interactive World War I adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BRA

Gunderson, Jessica

Summary: An interactive Civil War adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a Confederate prison.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GUN

Doeden, Matt

Summary: An interactive World War II adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

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Bruchac, Joseph

Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRU

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRU

Lasky, Kathryn

Summary: Deep in the wilds of Scotland, land of ancient warrior kings and myths, there is a deep secret. The secret is a colony of beavers, a species that is craved for their fur pelts, but vilified for what humans consider to be the destruction of their land. No beaver has been spotted in Scotland or England for over five hundred years, until the young beaver, Dunwattle, is sighted! Dunwattle's flight...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAS

Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOL

MacNeal, 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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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Pitman, Gayle E.

Summary: A child celebrates her Maddy, who is neither mommy nor daddy but a little bit of both, like so many things in nature. Includes note to parents.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2020

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Connolly, Rebecca

Summary: "Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. ... Young schoolteacher Andrée Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. Andrée is not Jewish, but she feels a maternal connection to her students, who are living in constant fear, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2024

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Gidwitz, Adam

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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Chiaverini, Jennifer

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Turnbull, Bryn

Summary: As unrest simmers, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov and her three sisters hide from the world on account of their mother's ill health, their brother Alexei's secret affliction, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin, the priest on whom the Tsarina has come to rely. As war approaches, Olga and her sisters trade their gowns for nursing habits, assisting in surgeries and tending to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TUR

Smith-Llera, Danielle

Summary: In 1493, eleven-year-old Cocuyo endeavors to find her place within the Taíno community on the island of Quisqueya, but when Europeans arrive bringing the threat of invasion, disease, and enslavement, she is determined to help preserve the culture she loves.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMI

Robuck, 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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McMorris, Kristina

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC MCM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCM

Quinn, Kate

2 holds on 4 copies

Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Riley, Vanessa

Summary: "Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIL

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