Inouye 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 INOBruchac, 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
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRUFalkner, Brian
Summary: In Nazi-ruled Germany, twelve-year-old Joe flees to England after his father is arrested by the Gestapo and he is separated from his mother, but when he arrives in London, Joe is recruited by MI5 and given a deadly mission that will put him in the very center of Hitler's ruthless reign.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FALBowen, Rhys
Summary: Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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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 ScottElliott, 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 ELLFox, Lauren
Summary: "Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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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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Summary: "New York City/Paris, 1942: When American model Jessica May arrives in Europe to cover the war as a photojournalist for Vogue, most of the soldiers are determined to make her life as difficult as possible. But three friendships change that. Journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules. Captain Dan Hallworth keeps her safe in dangerous places so she can capture the stories that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LesterMcCullough, Joy
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: In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. She wants only Pamela. Three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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Summary: As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction andwidespread fear, the King and Queen choose to quietly send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a trusted noble family in the country. Despite her fiery, headstrong nature, the princess's fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London. Third in line for the throne,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEWeaver, Ashley
Summary: As the Blitz continues to ravage London, Ellie McDonnell--formerly a safecracking thief, but currently determined to stay on the straight and narrow to help her country--is approached by British Intelligence officer Major Ramsey with a new assignment. She is to travel under an assumed identity to the port city of Sunderland and there await further instructions. In his usual infuriating way, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEATrigiani, Adriana
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 TRIBoltanski, Christophe
Summary: In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: September 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he's shocked to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2021
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Summary: Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war-torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis' most dangerous weapon in this entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIRSepetys, 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: "In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions to other parts of Asia. As their expansion efforts grow bolder, their enemies know that Japan's ultimate goal is total conquest over the region, especially when the Japanese align...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Summary: "December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hard Case Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KESBenn, James R.
Summary: "Norfolk, England, November 1944: After a series of dangerous missions in the South of France, US Army Captain Billy Boyle is finally on leave, and is settling into a peaceful rest at the country estate of Sir Richard Seaton, the father of Billy's British lover, Diana. Seaton Manor is a comfortable haven, and Billy is eager to spend a few precious days in Diana's company pretending the war is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2023