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France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction Great Britain. Special Operations Executive Fiction Military participation Female Women France Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Female Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Women FictionSteel, Danielle
Summary: "Capturing historical events, terrifying moments of danger, tragedy, the price of war, and the invincible spirit of a woman of honor, The Award is a monumental tale from one of our most gifted storytellers--Danielle Steel's finest, most emotionally resonant novel yet. Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENRunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: "Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband, a sensitive artist who fears for her safety,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNAckerman, Sara
Summary: In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Daisy Wilder enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the Women's Air Raid Defense (WARD) guides pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. Not everyone thinks the women are up to the job, and the new recruits meet resistance and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACKBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Benjamin 2019Follett, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audiobooks 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLSteel, Danielle
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC STESteel, Danielle
Summary: Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin to occur. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate. The local German military commandant makes Gaëlle's family estate outside Lyon into his headquarters. Her father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2016Follett, Ken.
Summary: D-day is approaching. They don't know when or where, but the Germans know it will be soon. For a group of british intelligence operatives in France the stakes have never been higher: knowing that the Allied attack depends upon their lines of communication and in the days before the invasion no target is of greater strategic importance than the largest telephone exchange in Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLHanks, Diane
Summary: In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an Army air base in Honolulu. On December 7, Annie's on her way to work when the first Japanese Zero fighter plane flies low over Hickam's parade ground. She rallies her nurses, and they work to save as many lives as they can. But soon, their small hospital is overwhelmed. Annie drives into Honolulu to gather supplies,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC HANAlderson, Kaia
Summary: The first Black women allowed to serve in the army, Grace Steele and Eliza Jones, helping form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, navigate their way through the segregated ranks, finally making it overseas where they do their parts for the country they love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021