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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Grafton girls	Annie Groves	The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. A unique bond is formed as the hostilities take…	OL10373W
Josie Poe Palouse, Washington, 1943	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.	OL11026766W
Murder by matchlight	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…	OL1238561W
Coming Home	Rosamunde Pilcher	Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman…	OL134613W
Luna e i falò	Cesare Pavese	"The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in America, but success has…	OL135284W
All through the night	Grace Livingston Hill	Separated from her beloved by the perils of war, beautiful young Dale Huntley holds fast to his promise of undying love. But her life changed dramatically when her precious grandmother died. All al…	OL14848575W
A Time of War (American Century #5)	Gilbert Morris	The close-knit Stuart clan becomes personally involved in WWII when several members of its younger generation go off to fight. Will and Clint are strongly rooted in their Christian heritage, but Adam…	OL14854809W
Dead of winter	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 …	OL14864777W
The crowstarver	Dick King-Smith,Peter Bailey	In 1926, a childless couple takes in an abandoned baby boy who, despite being mentally handicapped, grows to display special talents, and finds a happy niche for himself in their English countryside …	OL14936W
The War Widows	Leah Fleming	When you lose everything you love, you need a friend...	OL15181869W
Christmas in Cedar Cove (Cedar Cove)	Debbie Macomber	First, drop in at 5-B Poppy Lane, where you'll get a chance to visit with Helen Shelton, her granddaughter Ruth and Ruth's husband, Paul. They'll offer you a cup of mulled cider and the story of how …	OL15426469W
Phantoms in the snow	Kathleen Benner Duble	In 1944, fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, recently orphaned, is sent to live at Camp Hale, Colorado, with an uncle he has never met, and there he finds his pacifist views put to the test.	OL15586775W
Red rover	Deirdre McNamer	A stirring novel about idealism laid waste and the haunting, redemptive bonds of friendshipDeirdre McNamer has won praise for the intelligence, beauty, precision, and sweep of her fiction. Her first …	OL15839432W
Carry me across the water	Ethan Canin	"August Kleinman is told by his mother to "take the advice of no one" as the Nazi party rises to power around them in Hamburg. With these words to guide him, young August escapes to America, where he…	OL15859930W
The report	Jessica Francis Kane	"London, 1943 : Tube stations across London have been converted into bomb shelters. Night after night, while sirens wail in Bethnal Green, immigrants and East Enders alike sleep on the tracks and wai…	OL16116263W
The Hunger Angel	Herta Müller	It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a Gulag camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processin…	OL16451489W
Tilting the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 2)	Harry Turtledove,Todd McLaren	NO ONE COULD STOP THEM--NOT STALIN, NOT TOGO, NOT CHURCHILL, NOT ROOSEVELT . . . The invaders had cut the United States virtually in half at the Mississippi, vaporized Washington, D.C., devastated mu…	OL16545W
Duke	Kirby Larson	Hoping to help end the war and bring his dad home faster, Hobie decides to donate Duke to Dogs for Defense, an organization that urges Americans to "loan" their pets to the military to act as sentrie…	OL16812334W
A horse called Hero	Sam Angus	Wolfie and his sister Dodo find an orphaned foal whom they raise and name Hero. During World War II Hero is stolen from their home. Years go by and Wolfie gets a job as a stable hand at a mine, where…	OL17063101W
Second violin	Lawton, John	Lawton's engrossing sixth entry but the first chronologically in his Inspector Troy thriller series (Black Out, etc.) chronicles the major events leading up to WWII--Germany's annexation of Austria, …	OL17733097W