Messineo, Teresa
Summary: In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift medical unit. Enemy bombs have destroyed her hospital convoy, and now Jo singlehandedly struggles to keep her patients and herself alive in a cramped and freezing tent close to German troops. There is a growing tenderness between her and one of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: American soldiers, aided by an Austrian colonel who was both an Olympian and a trainer of Lipizzaners, attempt to kidnap horses that had been taken by Nazis "for the glorification of the Third Reich" and smuggle them to safety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LETAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: During World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower's wife Mamie knew the gossip: Ike was involved with another woman; his letters home were only tepidly reassuring. The relationship between Eisenhower and his driver/aide Kay Summersby moved from England to North Africa and then throughout Europe before and after the Normandy landing. At the end of the war, Ike is faced with the heart-wrenching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBHughes, Dean
Summary: Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HUGScharer, Whitney
Summary: A novel inspired by the life of the Vogue model-turned-renowned photographer finds Lee Miller relocating to 1929 Paris, where she becomes the muse and colleague of the mercurial surrealist, Man Ray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Scharer 2019Doig, Ivan.
Summary: Two years after their university football team enjoys a record-breaking season, the players become caught up in the drama of World War II, including Ben Reinking, who chronicles the wartime adventures of his teammates for newspapers across the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOILoigman, Lynda Cohen
Summary: Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer's wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a "soldier of production." Resentment festers between the two, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOIOsborne, William (William Hanslow)
Summary: In June 1941, Otto and Leni, two young refugees from the Nazis living in England, are sent on a secret mission to Bavaria, to extract a young girl attending a summer camp, and who may hold the key to the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House 2013
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Summary: Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance. After the loss of his fiancée, his outfit whittled to shreds, he commandeers a coastal steamer and escapes to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis's progress towards an atomic bomb at an isolated factory in Norway. There, he joins a team of dedicated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION GROBerry, Julie
Summary: The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Berry 2019Jenoff, Pam
Summary: Inspired by true events, this novel tells a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kelly 2016Jenoff, Pam
Summary: Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, she finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs, each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Ilse and her older brother Wolf must hone their magical skills to sabotage Hitler's attempt to build an atom bomb and uncover a spy using dark magic to thwart them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LOCSepetys, Ruta.
Summary: "As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2016
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Summary: After waking up in a German field at the end of World War II, a man with only flashes of his memory intact searches for his identity while getting caught up in a flood of displaced people, including a teenager with whom he forms an unlikely alliance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Summary: Though the Great Depression is behind the them, troubles are not, for Europe is at war. It is only be a matter of time before the U.S. enters the fray. In the town of Hope River, midwife Patience Hester's husband, Daniel has vowed never to take up arms again; he saw too much bloodshed during the First World War. When he is imprisoned for his beliefs, Patience and their four children are left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II. Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2017
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION MURWein, Elizabeth.
Summary: In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEISullivan, Mark T.
Summary: "Based on a true story, Pino Lella is forced to enlist as a German soldier and recruited to become the personal driver for Hitler's left hand in Italy. With the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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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. Based on true stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KEEChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: "Shtefan Brandt, adjutant to a colonel of the Waffen SS, has made it through the war so far in spite of his commander's habit of bringing his staff into combat, and a pair of secrets that are far more dangerous than the battlefield. Shtefan is a Mischling and one of the thousands of German citizens of Jewish descent who have avoided the death camps by concealing themselves in the ranks of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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Summary: After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019