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Summary: After escaping a slave labor camp, Luka joins an underground resistance in the fight against the Nazis and the Soviets, but he has two overriding goals--reunite with Lida, who was a friend in the labor camp, and make it back to his home in Ukraine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SKRWatkins, Steve
Summary: Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the atrocities she has witnessed. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATNielsen, Jennifer A
Summary: In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Nielsen 2018Abriel, Anita
Summary: "Paris 1943, Lana Antanov is on her way to see her husband, Frederic with news that she is pregnant. As she arrives at the convent where Frederic teaches piano, she watches in horror as Gestapo officers execute Frederic for hiding a Jewish girl in the piano. Lana is overcome with grief. That evening, she loses the baby. A few months later, Lana is approached by a member of the resistance to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ABRChiaverini, 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: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2019Walker, Martin
Summary: Meet Benoit Courrǧes, affectionately named Bruno, chief of police in a small village in the South of France where the rituals of the caf štill rule. A former soldier, Bruno has embraced the slow rhythms of country life. But the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army galvanizes his attention: the man had a swastika carved into his chest. When a visiting scholar helps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALJenoff, Pam
Summary: "1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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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, Call number: Fiction Steel 2016Taylor, Jordyn
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family is caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage. When Germany claims no involvement in the attack, Griff guides Sibi to lie to Nazi officials. If she or her sisters reveal that they saw planes bearing swastikas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBRobotham, Mandy
Summary: Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern's life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he'd been working undercover as a radio operative - or pianist - for the Dutch resistance, Marnie knows she must complete his mission - no matter the cost. Nazi-occupied Amsterdam: At the other end of the wireless, fellow pianist Corrie Bakker is caught in a dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBSteel, Danielle.
Summary: For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter, Beata, it was a time of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Even though her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEKelly, Martha Hall.
Summary: An arresting, powerful debut novel inspired by the life of debutante turned unlikely WWII hero Caroline Ferriday. Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort grows and she eventually comes to hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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Summary: The unhappy lives of two exceedingly successful married men--Reuben Tarz, head of a major Hollywood studio, and Daniel Bishop, a sought-after corporate lawyer--are forever altered when a woman from their past resurfaces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MICHarmel, Kristin
Summary: A coming-of-age story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis, until a secret from her past threatens everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HARRobards, Karen
Summary: On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family is caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage, and it's only the first time he saves her life in a span of hours. When Germany claims no involvement in the attack, insisting the Spanish Republic was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBJenoff, Pam
Summary: "Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENKelly, Martha Hall
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 Fiction, Call number: FIC KELHarmel, Kristin
Summary: "After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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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 FOLJenoff, 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: "With her father in a German POW camp and her home in Sainte-Mère-Église, France, under Nazi occupation, Rosalie Barrieau will do anything to keep her younger brother safe . . . even from his desire to join the French resistance. Until she falls into the debt of a German soldier--one who delivers a wounded British pilot to her door. Though not sure what to make of her German ally, Rosalie is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC COUFollett, 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, Call number: FIC FOLChiaverini, 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: HarperCollins 2019