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Hollows, M. J. Horlock, Mary. Jackson, Jeffrey H. Leroy, Margaret. Rowe, Kaz Stephenson, CharlesStephenson, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5342 SteHorlock, Mary.
Summary: Dwelling on the dark and difficult truths hidden within a family and on an island during the Second World War, The Book of Lies spins together the stories - told forty years apart - of Catherine and Charlie, who come to understand that no truth is as simple as it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORLeroy, Margaret.
Summary: While her husband is away in the army, Vivienne de la Mare, living in a farmhouse on World War II-occupied Guernsey in the Channel Island with her two daughters and mother-in-law, falls in love with a German officer and must make a difficult decision that could tear her family apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion/Voice 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LERSummary: One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ISLJackson, Jeffrey H.
Summary: "The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler andcalls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as "paper bullets," designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JACHollows, M. J.
Summary: "Her past could kill you. Guernsey, 1940. As war storms through Europe, Churchill orders the evacuation of all military personnel from the island. Boats ferry soldiers and vulnerable young children to England, leaving their parents and loved ones behind to face the invading German army on their own. Her love could save you. One of the few remaining policemen on the island, Jack must protect not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQ 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hollows 2021Rowe, Kaz
Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHSummary: After Nazi Germany invades the British Channel Islands in the summer of 1940, occupiers and occupied settle into an uneasy coexistence. But when does cooperation become collaboration? What if passion meets restraint? Includes thirteen episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ENESummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010