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Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOFollett, Ken.
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families-- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Summary: Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, Welsh--enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLMattick, Lindsay
Summary: "An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MATThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Elizabeth Miles finds herself in a position no con can help her escape. Her beloved fiancé, Gideon Bates, is awaiting his turn in the draft to fight in the Great War. Elizabeth is finding it hard to think of anything else, but Gideon has thrown himself into his work, preparing wills for soldiers before they ship out. Corporal Tom Preston is part owner of Preston Shoes, a company that is making...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOKeenan, Sheila
Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KEEBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: James Falconer, a tycoon and a self-made man, seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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Summary: This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken.
Summary: This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Follett 2012Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRAMathews, Francine.
Summary: A tense and enthralling historical thriller in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATLiviero, Gemma
Summary: 1915. In German-occupied Belgium, a tragic loss forces Josephine Descharmes to navigate dangerous new territory. By day it's compliance, serving German officers at the Hotel Metropole. By night it's resistance, working with her brothers underground to help Allied soldiers and civilians cross the border into Holland. Both paths put her and her family at great risk. As Josephine struggles to keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction BradfordPaul, Gill
Summary: Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband while recovering from the birth of a stillborn child. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAUCreel, Ann Howard
Summary: In 1917, after Arlene Favier's home burns, she must support her family and takes a job as an ambulance driver in a trailblazing, all-female team of doctors and nurses bound for war-torn France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CREDray, Stephanie
Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRADray, Stephanie
Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC DRA (BOOK CLUB KIT-8 paperbacks)Shafak, Elif
Summary: In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Isanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAShafak, Elif
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire In her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHATodd, Charles
Summary: A tip from an ex-convict seems implausible--but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland Yard. Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horserace honoring the late King Edward VII. His disappearance began a manhunt that consumed Britain for a decade. Now it appears...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TODKeller, Shana
Summary: Polly misses her father, a soldier fighting in France during World War I, and at home everything is rationed; Polly wants to do her part to help, so she and her friends organize a parade to collect peach pits which are used in the manufacture of gas masks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE FIC KELSimonson, Helen.
Summary: Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SIMMason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe)
Summary: "Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018