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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Wilderling	Claire Lorrimer	Although born into the British aristocracy, the Honourable Sophia Lucienne Rochford was raised in obscurity first in a French convent and then in a Parisian brothel. Like a wilderling—a cultivated fl…	OL10540189W
Lord of the Nutcracker men	Iain Lawrence	Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe…	OL116319W
The Red Door	Charles Todd	New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd brings back Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge in another riveting mystery set in post–World War I England Lancashire, England, June 1920. In a house …	OL14913132W
Whispers of Love	Rosie Harris	A compelling new saga set in Liverpool from the author of The Quality of Love.It is 1914 and Christabel Blakemore is happily preparing for her wedding when she receives the shattering news that her f…	OL14987882W
And the soldiers sang	J. Patrick Lewis	A young Welsh soldier fights along the Western Front during World War I, experiencing the horrors of trench warfare before participating in the famed Christmas Truce of 1914.	OL15443998W
A Bond Never Broken (Book 3 Daughters of Amana)	Judith Miller	For many years, Ilsa Redlich has helped her parents run a hotel in South Amana, but as the United States enters the Great War, she can feel her world changing. The residents of the towns surrounding …	OL15521694W
The Man from St. Petersburg	Ken Follett	Feliks came to London to commit a murder that would change history. He had many weapons at his command, but his most dangerous were the love of a innocent woman, and the passion of a lady demanding s…	OL15649851W
Quartet for the end of time	Johanna Skibsrud	A false conspiracy charge against a World War I veteran prompts the man's disappearance and haunts his son throughout the 1930s, intertwining his life with those of a powerful congressman's children.	OL17889644W
Love for a soldier	Mary Jane Staples	France, 1918. Sophia, the daughter of a German general, is on her way to elope with a young army officer. On her way she witnesses a battle in the skies that leaves an English pilot without a plane. …	OL17904270W
Infidelities	Josip Novakovich	Tragicomedy of the highest order, this stellar collection is Croatian writer Novakovich's best ever.Hailed as one of the best short story writers of the 1990s, Josip Novakovich was praised by the New…	OL1826040W
An expert in murder	Nicola Upson	A brilliant and original fiction debut set in the exotic world of 1930s British theatreMarch 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her …	OL1843185W
The Enormous Room	E. E. Cummings	The Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris. Cummings and a friend, both members of an …	OL1847491W
Flambards in Summer	K. M. Peyton	Christina returns to Flambards in 1916, only to find the estate overgrown, deserted, and desolate. With the First World War still raging and most of the men she knows absent, Christina decides to use…	OL1850130W
The day the falls stood still	Cathy Marie Buchanan	Niagara Falls, 1915. When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to an unfamiliar scene - the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. Her father is a broken …	OL18694138W
The Great War	Norma Jean Lutz	America has entered the Great War, and life is changing. Carl struggles to raise a Victory Garden in their backyard, while Edie tries to fix meatless meals and bake breads using less flour. Other cha…	OL19566969W
The Harlem Hellfighters	Max Brooks,Caanan White	"From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment--the Harlem Hellfighters. The Harlem Hellfighters is a fictionalized account…	OL19669655W
The winter soldier	Daniel Mason	"Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well…	OL19749372W
Our horses in Egypt	Rosalind Belben	"Philomena is requisitioned from a Dorset field in 1914 and serves with the yeomanry in Egypt and Palestine until the end of the First World War. But she doesn't come back to England : thousands of B…	OL19934405W
The secret life of Violet Grant	Beatriz Williams	"Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition tha…	OL19976653W
After the war is over	Jennifer Robson	"After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helpi…	OL19992820W