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Summary: "1941. A talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns for a career in aviation. When the civilian flight school in her small Texas town begins to clandestinely train British pilots for the RAF, she fights to become an instructor. But the task isn't without its perils of near-misses and death. Faced with the weight of her responsibilities, she finds solace with a British officer who knows firsthand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEAWilliams, Beatriz
Summary: France, 1914. Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. Betrayal will shatter them both. France, 1942. Raised by her American grandmother in the Hotel Ritz, Marguerite 'Daisy' Villon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBoyd, William
Summary: "When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth of a son. But this daughter was not one to let others define her; Amory became a woman who accepted no limits to what that could mean, and, from the time she picked up her first camera, one who would record her own version of events. Moving freely between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYGable, 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 GABJohnson, Jane
Summary: "One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets... Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home. Becky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHAshford, Lindsay Jayne
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Woman on the Orient Express comes a haunting novel of two women--one determined to uncover the past and the other determined to escape it, set in the mountains of Spain at the close of World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2022
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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: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: "Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2013
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Summary: 1942: Hazel Francis leaves Wichita, Kansas, for California to do her part in the war effort. At Douglas Aircraft she helps construct bombers for the U.S. military. But when the war is over, Hazel is dismissed: expected to return home and become a wife and mother. Staying on the West Coast, Hazel finds herself in Laguna Beach and answers an add for a model/assistant to artist Hanson Radcliff. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC HARTrigiani, Adriana
Summary: Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew... In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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Summary: "Hettie, a dance instructress at the Palais, lives at home with her mother and her brother, mute and lost after his return from the war. One night, at work, she meets a wealthy, educated man and has reason to think he is as smitten with her as she is with him. Still there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach... Evelyn works at the Pensions Exchange through which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: fiction Hope 2014Chevalier, Tracy
Summary: "In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEApostol, Gina
Summary: Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2018
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Summary: Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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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: Fiction Dray 2021Dray, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: "Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Her mother has just passed away, her brother is newly married, and now that the Great War is over, she has been asked to give up managing the estate she helped to run when the men all joined the army. It is suggested to her that she become a governess. But first, she will act as caretaker to Mrs. Fog, an old family friend who is convalescing at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEForsyth, Kate
Summary: After Margherita's father steals parsley from the walled garden of the courtesan Selena Leonelli, he is threatened with having both hands cut off, unless he and his wife relinquish their precious little girl. Selena is the famous red-haired muse of the artist Tiziano, first painted by him in 1512 and still inspiring him at the time of his death. She is at the center of Renaissance life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2014
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Summary: "Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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Summary: "Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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Summary: Story of Eva, a forty-year-old from Alto Adige. One night Eva receives a phone call from Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy. Vito, a carabiniere who served for years in Alto Adige, is dying and would like to see Eva one last time. Vito served in Alto Adige during the seventies, years of darkness and tension. However, that did not stop the love between Vito, and Gerda, Eva's mother, a young cook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010