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Crawford, Bess (Fictitious character) Fiction England Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Fiction Military chaplains Fiction Nurses England Fiction Reavley family (Fictitious characters) Fiction World War (1914-1918) World War, 1914-1918 England Fiction World War, 1914-1918 France Fiction World War, 1914-1918 Trench warfare FictionSummary: World War I nurse Bess Crawford promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying request to his brother, a request that is treated with skepticism, leading Bess to carry it out herself and put her own life at risk for Arthur's sake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Todd 2009Todd, Charles.
Summary: Nurse Bess Crawford finds herself involved in the search for a devious and dangerous killer in 1917 London after a woman she recognized from a wounded soldier's photo is found murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M TODPerry, Anne.
Summary: While tending to the soldiers in his care, chaplain Joseph Reavley stumbles upon the body of a war correspondent, while his brother Matthew, an intelligence officer, searches for the sinister criminal mastermind known as the Peacemaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERPerry, Anne.
Summary: In 1917, when an arrogant and incompetent British commander turns up dead, a reluctant Joseph Reavley searches for the truth about the crime and about the twelve men accused of the murder, journeying behind enemy lines to find the individual responsible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERMiller, Alice
Summary: "On the eve of World War I, Georgie Hyde-Lees-on her own for the first time-is introduced to the acclaimed poet W. B. Yeats at a soirée in London. Although Yeats is famously eccentric and many years her senior, Georgie is drawn to him, and when he extends a cryptic invitation to a secret society, her life is forever changed. A shadow falls over London as zeppelins stalk overhead and bombs bloom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILPerry, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERPerry, Anne.
Summary: "After four long years, peace is finally in sight. But chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister, Judith, an ambulance driver on the Western Front, are more hard pressed than ever. Behind the lines, violence is increasing: Soldiers are abusing German prisoners, a nurse has been raped and murdered, and the sinister ideologue called the Peacemaker now threatens to undermine the peace just as he did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERPerry, Anne.
Summary: In the fifth and final entry in Perry's World War I series, the war is drawing to a close. British intelligence officer Matthew Reavley has received word that a high-ranking German defector is willing to identify the Peacemaker, the man who has been undermining Britain's war effort and is responsible for the death of Reavley's parents. As Matthew travels to Ypres, his brother, Joseph, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERSummary: Based on the novel by R.F. Delderfield, this follows the fortunes of Paul Craddock, a former soldier who purchases a run-down Devon estate. Set between the Boer War and the outbreak of World War I, the miniseries depicts the end of an era, as England moves into the modern age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HORSimonson, Helen.
Summary: Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SIMTodd, Charles
Summary: At an aid station in France in October 1918, Bess Crawford, a nurse, encounters an injured, unidentified French lieutenant, who yells in fluent German after being attacked by a fellow patient. Though Bess's matron suggests that the Frenchman is from German-speaking Alsace-Lorraine, Bess isn't so sure. Two weeks later, Bess is shot while in the trenches and is sent to Paris to recuperate, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Todd 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M TODCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY TODTodd, Charles
Summary: Caring for an unstable soldier who believes his distant cousin is responsible for his injuries, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford investigates the patient's claims, only to find herself in unexpected danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TODTodd, Charles.
Summary: Haunted by the horrors she witnessed in France during the enemy invasion of 1914, Lady Elspeth Douglas, a titled young Englishwoman, is transformed by her experience and leaves her sheltered life behind to become a nurse and return to the battlefields of France to do her part.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: FICTION TODSimonson, Helen
Summary: It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding in search of a position after the death of her father. Agatha's nephews, meanwhile, have come to spend the summer months, as always, both with dreams of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SIMPerry, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PerCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION PerryPerry, Anne.
Summary: In June of 1914, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns that his father was carrying a vitally important secret document when he died, and that his best student has been murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PERJacobs, Anna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACTodd, Charles.
Summary: "World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd. Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he's to be decorated by the King. The next morning when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M TODTodd, Charles
Summary: Caring for an unstable soldier who believes his distant cousin is responsible for his injuries, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford investigates the patient's claims, only to find herself in unexpected danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TODCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY TODDonnelly, Jennifer.
Summary: In 1914, with World War I approaching, polar explorer Seamus Finnegan tries to forget Willa, a passionate mountain climber, as he marries a beautiful young woman back home in England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: Independent-minded Bess Crawford's unbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. At the outbreak of WWI, she volunteers for the nursing corps, serving from the battlefields of France to the doomed hospital ship Britannic. On one voyage, she promises to deliver a message from a dying officer to his brother. Once she's able to do so, she's disturbed at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODEden, Dorothy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDERock, Phillip
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seaview Books 1978