Weaver, Ashley
Summary: "Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but World War II is in full swing, and Uncle Mick's more honorable business as a locksmith can't pay the bills any more. So when he receives a tip about a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEABenn, James R.
Summary: A novel inspired by the controversial Operation Tiger tragedy follows Billy Boyle's investigation into an unidentified body that has washed up on the beach near a secret training site for the approaching D-Day invasion of Normandy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBenn, James R.
Summary: "Just days after the Liberation of Paris, Billy and Kaz are brought to Saint Albans Convalescent Hospital in the English countryside. Kaz has been diagnosed with a heart condition, and Billy is dealing with emotional exhaustion and his recent methamphetamine abuse. Meanwhile, Billy's love, Diana Seaton, has been taken to Ravensbruck, the Nazi concentration camp for women, and Kaz's sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Benn 2020Pearce, A. J. (Amanda-Jane)
Summary: "London, 1940. Emmeline Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent suddenly seem achievable. But the job turns out to be working as a typist for the fierce and renowned advice columnist, Henrietta Bird....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Pearce 2018Follett, Ken.
Summary: In June 1944, with the war not going well for the British, the lives of three people on both sides of the English Channel intertwine as one of them makes a discovery that could change the course of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FOLHumphreys, Helen
Summary: A young woman gardner Gwen Davis flees to the Devon countryside where she will be in charge of a Land Army group of young girls who are to plant food crops on a country estate. At the estate along with the girls a regiment of Canadian soldiers live and form friendships, etc. Gwen comes to know herself and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 1998
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Summary: Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set during the Blitz in 1940 London finds Lord Peter conducting secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet, caring for the family, is shocked by the murder of a young Land Girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATBenn, James R
Summary: August, 1944: US Army Captain Billy Boyle is assigned to track down a French traitor, code named Atlantik, who is delivering classified Allied plans to German leaders in occupied Paris. The Resistance is also hot on his trail, and out for blood, after Atlantik's previous betrayals led to the death of many of their members. But the plans Atlantik carries were leaked on purpose, a ruse devised by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curley Pub. 1992
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Summary: A tale set in World War II London finds a rescue worker struggling for composure after a bombing, a young woman longing for her soldier lover, and a convict who watches a battle through the bars of his window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATLawton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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Summary: It's July 1940, and eleven-year-old Lydia has just run away from life as a child evacuee in Wales. She arrives in her English village, gas mask in tow, only to find it abandoned. Her family's house is shuttered and empty, the windows covered by black-out blinds--but Lydia settles in, determined to wait there until they return. Late that night he comes: a wounded soldier, gun in hand, heralding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hewitt 2015Kelly, Julia
Summary: "It's easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past than to confront the present, which is why working for a gruff but brilliant antiques dealer is perfect. While clearing out an estate, she pries open an old tin that holds the relics of a lost relationship: an unfinished diary from World War II and a photo of a young woman in uniform. Captivated by the hauntingly beautiful entries,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: Unable to confront the challenges in her own life, Cara Hargraves immerses herself in work for her antiques-dealer boss, uncovering relics from the life of World War II British "Gunner Girl" Louise Keene and her complicated relationship with a man named Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KellyHoward, Elizabeth Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWMoyes, Jojo
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOYKeenan, Sheila
Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013
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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