Watkins, Paul
Summary: After barely surviving his tour as a mountaineer in the Italian Alps of the Second World War, William Bromley settled down and made a quiet life for himself: teaching history at a London boarding school, reading, a few drinks at the pub on Friday nights. That all ends when a soldier from William's mountain regiment reappears, calling in a bargain struck during the war. William must return to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATFesperman, Dan
Summary: When Nat Turnbull, a history professor who specializes in the German resistance, gets the news that his estranged mentor, Gordon Wolfe, has been arrested for possession of stolen World War II archives, he's hardly surprised that, even at the age of eighty-four, Gordon has gotten himself in trouble. But what's in the archives is staggering: a spymaster's trove missing since the end of the war,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FESAnderson, B. Kent
Summary: "When the first page of a shocking Civil War-era document is unearthed in Oklahoma, history professor Nick Journey is called in to evaluate the find--and is promptly attacked by two men armed with Special Forces weapons. Federal agent Meg Tolman's investigation into Journey's attack uncovers more troubling questions than answers. She soon finds herself joining Journey's cross-country quest to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2011
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Summary: Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Haig 2018Talton, Jon.
Summary: Unable to keep away when his sheriff friend is nearly killed by a sniper, historian-turned-deputy David Mapstone discovers a cryptic note written by his friend that forces him to confront his own personal history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALPiazza, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIADavies, Robertson
Summary: Relationship between three men who grew up together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DavieMontgomery, L. M., 1874-1942 (Lucy Maud)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 2006
Limbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2013
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Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENParker, Robert B.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleuth Philomel 2007