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Anciens combattants Romans, nouvelles, etc Classes sociales Romans, nouvelles, etc Female friendship Fiction FICTION / Historical FICTION / Historical / General FICTION / Literary FICTION / Sagas FICTION / War & Military Man-woman relationships Fiction World War, 1914-1918 FictionBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENScibona, Salvatore
Summary: "A long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist, the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government. A small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCIOksanen, Sofi
Summary: "From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge--a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after WorldWar II. 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKSBaites, Mina
Summary: 1914. For Paul, with love. A Jewish silversmith engraved those words on his most exquisite creation, a singing filigree bird inside a tiny ornamented box. He crafted this treasure for his young son before leaving to fight in a terrible war. A half century later, Londoner Lilian Morrison inherits the box after the death of her parents. With the keepsake is a letter from Lilian's mother, telling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BAIIggulden, Conn.
Summary: "The brilliant retelling of the Wars of the Roses continues with Margaret of Anjou, the second gripping novel in the new series from historical fiction master Conn Iggulden. As Traitors Advance...A Queen Defends It is 1454 and for over a year King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness, his eyes vacant, his mind a blank. His fiercely loyal wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Iggulden 2015Ryan, Jennifer
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a new World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYABradford, 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: "From internationally bestselling author Belinda Alexandra comes a sweeping, emotional journey that depicts vividly the powerful lifelong bond between mothers and daughters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALESee, Lisa
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story of secrets and sacrifice, love and betrayal, prejudice and passion, China Dolls reveals a rich portrait of female friendship, as three young women navigate the "Chop Suey Circuit"--America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction See 2014Robson, Jennifer
Summary: "After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boarding house. Just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Robson 2015Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors did over the centuries. Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there with his wife Felicity and their six children: Guy, theheir, who is studying at Cambridge; their younger son Miles, attending Eton; and their four daughters Diedre, Daphne, DeLacy and Dulcie,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bradford 2014Bradford, 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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2 available in New 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 BRAAllende, 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