Steel, Danielle.
Summary: The Titanic disaster spurs 19-year-old Annabelle Worthington to leave her privileged life for one of service. Fleeing scandal brought on by the end of her marriage, she winds up in France, working in a hospital for those wounded in WWI. She almost succeeds in forgetting her past, until a chance meeting brings it all rushing back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Summary: Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. When she is betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STETodd, Charles.
Summary: While tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess Crawford discovers that the officer who killed five people in India and England is still alive, and, setting out to clear her father's name, instead makes a horrific discovery that changes everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TODPerry, 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 PEREnerson Wood, Tracey
Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging-and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Enerson WoodCreel, Ann Howard
Summary: In 1917, after Arlene Favier's home burns, she must support her family and takes a job as an ambulance driver in a trailblazing, all-female team of doctors and nurses bound for war-torn France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRERobinson, Derek
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBWood, Tracey Enerson
Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOPerry, 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 PERWillig, Lauren
Summary: Eschewed by her wealthy Smith College classmates, a former scholarship student reluctantly volunteers to join a group of graduates who travel to Europe to help World War I French civilians before finding herself surrounded by desperate families in villages decimated by German bombs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBlackwell, Juliet
Summary: Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lie below the lush, rolling vineyards of the Champagne region, an underground city of women and children hums with life. Forced to take shelter from the unrelenting onslaught of German shellfire above, the bravest among them venture out to pluck sweet grapes for the harvest. But wine is not the only secret preserved in the cool, dark cellars ... In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BLATodd, 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 TODPerry, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION PerryNemirovsky, Irene
Summary: Pierre Hardelot breaks off his engagement to a wealthy heiress to marry Agnes Florent, the daughter of the local brewer, setting off a family feud which lasts for thirty years, as their village is first destroyed by World War I and then threatened again with the coming of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEMJaprisot, Sebastien
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAPWillig, Lauren
Summary: "A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smiths Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILMagnan, Pierre
Summary: At the turn of the century in Upper Provence, a family is violently massacred. The sole survivor of the tragedy is a three-week-old baby. Twenty years later, the orphaned survivor returns home to avenge his family's killers, but for each murder he plots, another hand executes it in his place, and unexpected secrets set in motion a dreadful unveiling of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MAGChang, Janie
Summary: In 1918 France, in the final days of the First World War, Pauline Deng, a young Chinese woman escaping an arranged marriage, is taken in by secretive Camille Roussel and becomes bound to this woman forever when they are forced to make a terrible decision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAWilliams, Beatriz
Summary: France, 1914. Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. Betrayal will shatter them both. France, 1942. Raised by her American grandmother in the Hotel Ritz, Marguerite 'Daisy' Villon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILMoyes, Jojo
Summary: France 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions. And from the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie's portrait, painted by Edouard, a dangerous obsession is born, which will lead Sophie to make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: When Paul Peachy, an amateur actor, is captured by the Germans during World War I, he impersonates a famous enemy spy whom he had briefly guarded and is offered fine wines and dinners, a driver and a tailor, and Annie, a beautiful courtesan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILAdlakha, Sarah
Summary: "Set during the heroism and heartbreak of World War I, and in an occupied France in an alternative timeline, Sarah Adlakha's Midnight on the Marne explores the responsibilities love lays on us and the rippling impact of our choices. France, 1918. Nurse Marcelle Fournier has important secrets to keep. Her role as a spy has made her both feared and revered, but it has also put her in extreme...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLLevine, Beth Seidel.
Summary: Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2002
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: Y DASmith, April
Summary: "An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the l930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014