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Josie Poe Palouse, Washington, 1943
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Kathleen Duey |
Living with her family in the farming town of Palouse, Washington, during World War II, thirteen-year-old Josie worries about her brother's strange behavior and wonders why he has not enlisted. |
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Crusade
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Taylor Anderson |
The "gripping and riveting" (S. M. Stirling, author of The Scourge of God) Destroyermen saga continues. Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the USS Walker, have chosen… |
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Murder by matchlight
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E. C. R. Lorac |
> *Murder by Matchlight*, first published in 1945, is widely regarded as one of E.C.R. Lorac's finest novels. Chief Inspector Macdonald investigates a teasing mystery, and in addition to the pleasure… |
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LACHLAN'S WAR
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Michael Cannon |
On a wintry evening in 1941 Dr Lachlan McCready is on his rounds in the remote Scottish village of Rassaig when he comes across a silent, frightened evacuee boy who is trying to survive in one of Ras… |
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The Shell Seekers
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Rosamunde Pilcher |
The Shell Seekers is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The Shell Seekers is filled with real people--mothers… |
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The Quilt
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Gary Paulsen |
1944. Wartime. A six-year-old boy goes to spend the summer with his grandmother Alida in a small town near the Canadian border. With the men all gone off to fight, the women are left to run the farms… |
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Dead of winter
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Rennie Airth,Rennie Airth |
The murder of a young Polish girl in wartime London puts John Madden on the trail of a ruthless hired killerOn a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. The … |
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Escape to the forest
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Ruth Y. Radin |
A young Jewish girl living with her family in the town of Lida at the beginning of World War II recalls the horrors of life under first the Russians then the Nazis, before fleeing to join Tuvia Biels… |
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No less than victory
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Jeff Shaara |
No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara's soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war's unforgettable and harrowing final act.After the success… |
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The postmistress
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Sarah Blake |
Those who carry the truth sometimes bear a terrible weight... It is 1940. France has fallen. Bombs are dropping on London. And President Roosevelt is promising he won't send our boys to fight in "for… |
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The man in the gray flannel suit II
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Sloan Wilson |
1963. Tom Rath, finds his dream of suburban bliss turning into a kind of genteel craziness. Tom is not alone - the rest of the world seems to be going crazy too. John Kennedy is assassinated. Tom's w… |
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The Other Side Of Paradise
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Margaret Mayhew |
An epic love story under the shadow of warShe lived only for pleasure...until war forced her to find courage she did not know she had, and love where she least expected it. It is 1941, and while Brit… |
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Daughters of Liverpool
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Annie Groves |
An evocative and heartrending saga set in Liverpool during World War Two, from the bestselling author of As Time Goes By Katie’s full of trepidation as she arrives in Liverpool. It’s her first post… |
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To Have and To Hold
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Anne Bennett |
A stirring saga of a nurse who only wants to do her duty in World War Two – and who ends up having to make an agonising choice. Set in Ireland and Birmingham, this is the latest from emerging star of… |
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The War Widows
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Leah Fleming |
When you lose everything you love, you need a friend... |
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The Flight
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Bryan Malessa |
A powerful novel set at the end of World War II about one woman and her family's struggle for survival.The thrust of this epic novel occurs in the spring of 1945, during an event known in Germany as … |
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Orphans of War
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Leah Fleming |
The ones you leave behind are the ones that stay with you forever... |
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The Flowing Tide
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Alan Savage |
With France having fallen, by 1941 the Germans control every French port, turning the English Channel into a battleground where vast numbers of German Schnell-boats frequently clash horns with the ha… |
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Angel Rising
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Christopher Nicole |
Germany, 1945. With the collapse of the Third Reich and MI6's decision to retire their premier double agent-cum-assassin, it seems the war is finally over for beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach, aka … |
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Novels 1942-1952 (Cannery Row / East of Eden / Moon is Down / Pearl)
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John Steinbeck |
John Steinbeck has earned a place as one of America's most enduringly popular writers. Here, in the third volume of The Library of America's authoritative edition of his writings, are four novels tha… |
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