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Robotham, Mandy

Summary: Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern's life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he'd been working undercover as a radio operative - or pianist - for the Dutch resistance, Marnie knows she must complete his mission - no matter the cost. Nazi-occupied Amsterdam: At the other end of the wireless, fellow pianist Corrie Bakker is caught in a dangerous...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2023

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Kelly, Julia

Summary: "1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M KEL

Rickloff, Alix

Summary: On the eve of Pearl Harbor, impetuous and overindulged, Lucy Stanhope, the granddaughter of an earl, is living a life of pampered luxury in Singapore until one reckless act will change her life forever. Exiled to England to stay with an aunt she barely remembers, Lucy never dreamed that she would be one of the last people to escape Singapore before war engulfs the entire island, and that her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: P RIC

Winspear, Jacqueline

Summary: Spring, 1940. Following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs has been investigating the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. Her investigation leads from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men. When a final confrontation approaches, she must...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIN

Kelly, Julia

Summary: "1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KEL

Lawton, John

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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAW

Alison, Rosie.

Summary: s Hitler prepares to invade Poland, many children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate. This title tells a story of love, loss and complicated loyalties, combining a narrative with subtle psychological observation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALI

MacNeal, Susan Elia

Summary: "London. December, 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope, secret agent and spy, takes a break from the Special Operations Executive division to defuse bombs in London. But Maggie herself is like an explosion waiting to happen. Shaken by a recent case, she finds herself living more dangerously--taking more risks than usual, smoking again, drinking gin and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAC

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Paton Walsh, Jill

Summary: Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set during the Blitz in 1940 London finds Lord Peter conducting secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet, caring for the family, is shocked by the murder of a young Land Girl.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

Gable, Michelle

Summary: In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. Between the shop's brisk business and the literary salons she hosts for her eccentric friends, Nancy's life seems on the upswing. But when a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GAB

O'Brian, Patrick

Summary: Imprisoned by the German army in France, an artist and espionage agent endures regular beatings and seeks to retain his sanity by minutely examining his life, which is marked by an alcoholic mother and work as an art forger to escape starvation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBR

Austin, Lynn N.

Summary: "1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son. As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson has been impersonating her for the past four years. Unraveling this deception will force Audrey and Eve's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2020

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Deighton, Len

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Publisher / Publication Date: Curley Pub. 1992

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEI

Gable, Michelle

Summary: "In 1942, London. Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. When a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth the price she might be forced to pay. Eighty years later, Heywood Hill is abuzz with the hunt for a lost wartime manuscript written...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

MacNeal, Susan Elia

Summary: London, December 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope finds herself living dangerously as a spy. When she's called upon to look into the theft of a Stradivarius, one of the finest violins ever made, Maggie can't resist. Meanwhile, there's a serial killer on the loose in London, targeting conscientious objectors. Little does she know that investigating this...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAC

Brown, Millie Bobby

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Summary: It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood of the East End, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. Three years into the war, she's grateful to hold onto remnants of normalcy. But after a chance encounter with Ray, an American airman...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Ondaatje, Michael

Summary: In 1945, just after World War II, fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OND

Silver, Mitch

Summary: The discovery of a human arm bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist at a London construction site prompts Russian historian Lara "the Bookworm" Klimt to investigate a secret World War II operation and prevent a present-day international conspiracy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SIL

Winspear, Jacqueline

Summary: Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival. When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British...

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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 WIN

Silver, Mitch

Summary: "Europe, 1940: Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his way into the monastery at Villers-devant-Orval just before Nazi art thieves plan to sweep through the area and whisk everything of value back to Berlin. But the ersatz man of the cloth is no thief. Instead, that night he adds an old leather Bible to the monastery's library and then escapes. London, 2018: A construction worker makes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SIL

Spark, Muriel.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPA

Fowler, Christopher.

Summary: When a bomb explodes in the office of London's most unusual police unit, it claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant. As his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity, he finds his investigation taking him back to the day the detectives first met as young men in 1940.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOW

Ryan, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)

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Summary: "On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024

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Frayn, Michael.

Summary: When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts to remember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where an imaginative child's game of playing spies wreaked havoc upon innocent lives.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA

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