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Bell, Gertrude Lowthian 1868-1926 Fiction Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction Great Britain History Henry I, 1100-1135 Fiction Italy Italy History German occupation, 1943-1945 Fiction Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward) 1888-1935 Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Middle East History 1914-1923 Fiction Women teachers Fiction World War, 1939-1945 FictionMcNees, Kelly O'Connor
Summary: In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCNRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUSRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Peace Conference convenes, there historic luminaries invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSFox, 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: "Leipzig, 1930's Germany. Hetty Herta is a young girl growing up under Nazi rule. With an SS officer father, a brother in the Luftwaffe and a member of the BDM Hetty is the epitome of a perfect German child. But Walter changes everything. Blond haired, blue-eyed, perfect in every way Walter. The boy who saved her life when she was a young child. Her brother's childhood best friend. A Jew. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEINewman, Janis Cooke
Summary: "Set in 1942 New York and Berlin, "A Master Plan for Rescue "is an enchanting novel about the life-giving powers of storytelling, and the heroism that can be inspired by love. In essence, it is two love stories. It is the story of a child who worships his parents, then loses his father to an accident and his mother to her resulting grief. And it is the story of a young man who stumbles into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWAllende, Isabel
Summary: Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALLEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: For many years Judge Roy Bean, the cantankerous self-styled arbiter of rough frontier justice, wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress Lillie Langtry across the sea; occasionally, she wrote back. He even renamed the town in which he lived Langtry in her honor. After years of this strange but poignant correspondence, Lillie finally kept her promise to visit her distant admirer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTPears, Iain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAScharer, Whitney
Summary: A novel inspired by the life of the Vogue model-turned-renowned photographer finds Lee Miller relocating to 1929 Paris, where she becomes the muse and colleague of the mercurial surrealist, Man Ray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Scharer 2019Cantor, Jillian
Summary: Austria, 1938. Kristoff is a young apprentice to a master Jewish stamp engraver. When his teacher disappears during Kristallnacht, Kristoff is forced to engrave stamps for the Germans, and simultaneously works alongside Elena, his beloved teacher's fiery daughter, and with the Austrian resistance to send underground messages and forge papers. As he falls for Elena amidst the brutal chaos of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANSummary: The story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2001
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WOMSmith, Martin Cruz
Summary: In a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied Venice in 1945, a fisherman finds a young woman floating in the lagoon and chooses to protect the Jewish woman rather than hand her over to the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SMIDickson, Shirley
Summary: "England, 1943: When twenty-five-year-old May Robinson's mother is tragically killed one foggy night, May is heartbroken and terrified. She isn't sure she has the strength to harbor the secret they have kept for so many years-the secret her mother devoted her life to hiding. The secret that would tear their broken family even further apart. Instead, May vows to make her mother proud by training...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DicksonNicholson, William.
Summary: The story of a World War II love triangle involving a charismatic war hero whose marriage crumbles in the face of painful realities that culminate in tragedy when his ex-wife returns his best friend's long-unrequited love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICJenoff, Pam
Summary: Fleeing fascist Italy for America, young Adelia Montforte falls for Charlie Connally, but when war erupts and tragedy comes with it, she tries to lose herself in wartorn London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2015
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Summary: A poor fisherman named Cenzo comes across a girl's body, floating in the lagoon. He carries her into his boat and soon discovers that she is very much alive, and very much in trouble. Born to a wealthy Jewish family who has been captured and deported by the Nazis, Guilia is on the run after she was found hiding in a local hospital. Cenzo decides it's the right thing to do to help her escape,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Smith 2016Smith, April
Summary: "An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the l930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2014Austin, Lynn N.
Summary: "In an unassuming apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, three lives intersect as the reality of war invades their lives. Young Esther is heartbroken when her father decides to enlist in the army shortly after the death of her mother. Penny Goodrich has been in love with Eddie Shaffer for as long as she can remember; now that Eddie's wife is dead, Penny feels that she's been given a second...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION AUSBeverley, Jo.
Summary: Orphaned and desperate, Imogen of Carrisford flees when a brutal lord invades and takes possesion of her castle. Only one man, rumored to be a ruthless champion in battle, can defend and protect her: Fitzroger of Cleeve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEVMallory, Margaret
Summary: When Lady Linnet chooses revenge on those who destroyed her family over marrying her childhood sweetheart, Sir James Rayburn, she immediately regrets her decision and vows to make amends, but he refuses to trust her with his heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALRichman, Alyson.
Summary: During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry--only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011