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Cazalet chronicle (Macmillan London) ; v. 4Kelly, Julia
Summary: "Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELPage, Lizzie
Summary: Set in the English countryside of 1939, seven-year-old Pearl Posner is evacuated to Vivienne's home for safety, and as World War II builds in Europe, Vivi and Pearl learn of a connection between them that in turn leads Vivienne to confront her relationship with her husband and long-lost sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAGGaynor, Hazel
Summary: "Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAYGaynor, Hazel
Summary: "Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC GAY (PENINSULA BOOK CLUB KIT - 8 paperbacksSolomons, Natasha.
Summary: After escaping Germany during WWII, Jack and Sadie Rosenblum, together with their baby daughter, settle into a life of acting "English." In post-war England, however, no golf club will admit a Rosenblum. So Jack hatches a wild idea: he'll build his own. It's an obsession Sadie does not share, particularly when Jack relocates them to a thatched roof cottage in Dorset to embark on his project.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLPilcher, Rosamunde.
Summary: This is a warm family saga of three generations of heroines: Penelope, her daughter Olivia, and a young girl named Antonia, whom Olivia and Penelope have adopted as surrogate child. Confronted with her own mortality, Penelope returns to the Cornwall coast to come to terms with her son Noel, with Antonia's haunted young boyfriend Danus, and with the memory of Richard, the soldier who never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacMillan Audio 2017
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Summary: "One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets... Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home. Becky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHTowler, Katherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacAdam/Cage Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOWFrayn, Michael.
Summary: When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts to remember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where an imaginative child's game of playing spies wreaked havoc upon innocent lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAHoward, Elizabeth Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWBragg, Melvyn
Summary: Ex-corporal Sam Richardson returns home from the war in Burma in the spring of 1946, but instead of finding comfort in returning to his hometown, which seems to have remained unchanged, he finds himself trying to cope with the changes that have occured within himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABragg, Melvyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAMorton, Kate
Summary: A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WWII. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives looking after the third and youngest sister, Juniper, who hasn’t been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morton 2010Cookson, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999