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Follett, Ken.

Summary: Just before World War I, two men--one a noble Russian emissary, the other a denizen of Europe's underground--set in motion a concatenation of world-shaking, ultimately fatal events.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2003

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Barker, Pat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Press 1997

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

Chiaverini, Jennifer

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Summary: Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHI

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britains factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: In the Great War, arsenals hired women to build the weapons. Joining them is Lucy Dempsey, who also joins the ladies' football club, the Thornshire Canaries, the one place where class distinction and fears for their men dissolve.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023

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

Gohlke, Cathy

Summary: In the early days of WWII, American Claire Stewart smuggles five French Jewish children across the channel before the Nazis storm Paris, and brings them to her estranged aunt's Lake District estate as refugees. Lady Miranda Langford agrees to take them in, but only if Claire stays to help care for them. Though desperate to return to France and the man she loves, Claire agrees, and soon fellow...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOH

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

Summary: "1919: The war is over, but peace is yet to come. As men are demobbed, women must give up positions that gave them freedom. Edward is given an important job at the Peace Conference in Paris, but it means more lonely months away from Beattie and his hoped-for reconciliation. Fred's unit is sent to the Rhine, and Cook feels a guilty relief that her uprooting has been postponed. Laura's friend...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Shields, Jody

Summary: In 1915 England, a young widow, grieving over the loss of her husband in battle, finds her peace shattered when her estate is transformed into a military hospital, but she finds solace in the person of a soldier whose face is concealed by bandages.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHI

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