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Americans France Fiction Family secrets Fiction France France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction Jews France Fiction Large type books Paris (France) Fiction World War, 1939-1945 France Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Juvenile fictionTaylor, Jordyn
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYNielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: 657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches theGerman soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NIEPreus, Margi
Summary: In the 1940s, remote Les Lauzes, France, houses Jews, unregistered foreigners, forgers, and others who take great risks to shelter refugees and smuggle them to safety in Switzerland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PRERosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P DERRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Press/Macmillan 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSGratz, Alan
Summary: It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2019Jablonski, Carla.
Summary: In 1943, as the German occupation of France continues, the Tessier siblings increase their involvement in the Resistance while staying out of the way of the Millice, the Vichy military police. Includes facts about Charles De Gaulle and his support of resistance movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JABMosse, Kate
Summary: "Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse's eagerly awaited Citadel is a mesmerizing World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives to save their homeland and protect astonishing secrets buried in time in France, 1942. In Carcassonne, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSSundin, Sarah
Summary: As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. She struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books. Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Sundin 2022Escobar, Mario
Summary: August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ESCHarmel, Kristin
Summary: "Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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Summary: Set in the shadowy back streets and glittering salons of wartime Paris. Film producer Jean Casson, a Paris sophisticate struggles to come to terms with the uncomfortable realities of life under German occupation, as he becomes caught up in the activities of what was to become the French Resistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FURKiernan, Stephen P.
Summary: One month after the end of World War II, amid the jubilation in the streets of France, there are throngs of people stunned by the recovery work ahead. Every bridge, road, and rail line, every church and school and hospital, has been destroyed. Disparate factions--from Communists, to Resistance fighters, to federalists, to those who supported appeasement of the Nazis--must somehow unite and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIEHlad, Alan
Summary: "Recruited from Churchill's typing pool to become an undercover spy in German-occupied France, a young woman from London bravely endures daring missions, audacious escapes, and harrowing imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, risking everything for the country--and the man--she loves. London, 1941: In a cramped bunker in Winston Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms, underneath Westminster's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HLAHarmel, Kristin
Summary: Eva Traube Abrams, a semiretired librarian in Florida, is at the returns desk one morning when her eyes lock on to a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as the Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article describes the looting of libraries across Europe by the Nazis during World War II--an experience...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC HAR BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperbacks)Dauvillier, Loïc
Summary: "A grandmother shares the story of her experiences in WWII with her grandchild in this graphic novel for young readers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DAUSteel, Danielle
Summary: "Capturing historical events, terrifying moments of danger, tragedy, the price of war, and the invincible spirit of a woman of honor, The Award is a monumental tale from one of our most gifted storytellers--Danielle Steel's finest, most emotionally resonant novel yet. Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEHealey, Jane
Summary: "Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HEAWells, Christine
Summary: Set in the thick of the Paris Resistance movement during WWII, this exciting novel tells of the deep involvement of Catherine Dior, the sister of fashion designer Christian Dior, and two sisters who risked their lives to support her efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer; and Vivienne's involvement is something she can't reveal to either of them. Two generations later, Claire's English granddaughter Harriet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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Summary: In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money -- and maybe get him killed. But if he's clever enough, he'll avoid any trouble. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELHarmel, Kristin
Summary: From the bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation. Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HARBelfoure, Charles
Summary: Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn't really believe in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BELManning, Kirsty
Summary: "Fresne Prison, 1940: A former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, Margot Bisset finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter Joséphine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for four years, where the secrets they share will bind them for generations to come... Paris, around about now: Evie Black lives in Paris with her teenage son, Hugo,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021