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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary...
43) War maps: World War II, from September 1939 to August 1945, air, sea, and land, battle by battle
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1982
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192 p. : col. ill.
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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She...
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Our Mothers' War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book.
Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the home front and abroad. These heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking...
49) Catch-22
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2011
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 30
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523 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
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Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.
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The sixth volume in the Williamsburg series, this is a satisfying return to the Spragues and the Days - again from Williamsburg and New York, to London and Farthingale. The best of the series, since The Light Heart, a good yarn with pace and momentum, and a gratifying gathering up of the threads in the years leading up to World War II. Sue has gone, Jeff is her heir, the surviving male Day. And the story interest shifts back and forth from Jeff, fearful...
51) Resistance
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's 1944 and D-Day has failed. The women of a remote British village awake to find their husbands gone to fight with the resistance. Soon after Nazi soldiers arrive to occupy the village and the women must boldly form their own resistance.
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Price of liberty volume 3
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c1993
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221 p. ; 23 cm.
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When America is swept into World War II, Chance Rinehart and Jesse Boone are followed into service by maria Vitrano--a clever, dark-haired newspaper journalist with suspicious motives.
53) The end of glory
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Price of liberty volume 4
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1993
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215 pages ; 23 cm.
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When Mike Hardin decides to become a navy aviator, he coaxes an unlikely helper to be his tutor: Leah Daniel, a shy high school student reared in a strict religious sect near Liberty, Ga. When he leaves Liberty, Mike fully expects to forget about Leah. But to his surprise, he can't. He's even more surprised to learn that David Stone, his mentor and squadron leader, is competing with him for her affection.
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Price of liberty volume 5
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c1993
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216 p. ; 23 cm
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Diana Marlowe is a British beauty whose heart has already been broken once; it doesn't take her long to size up Mark Courtney. She knows the cocky, self-centered young politician from Liberty, Georgia, plans to use the exploding world war to boost his own political plans. Still there is something- and unwelcomed tenderness that draws Diana to the scheming young flyer and stirs a forgotten fire in her heart. Only one other person sees through Mark's...
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"Grace Steele and Eliza Jones may be from completely different backgrounds, but when it comes to the army, specifically the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), they are both starting from the same level. Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve. As these courageous women help to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing with...
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Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning is the latest installment of the Agatha- and Anthony-award-winning Chesapeake Crimes series. This volume features tales by:
Donna Andrews
Timothy Bentler-Jungr
Shaun Taylor Bevins
Carla Coupe
Maddi Davidson
Linda Ensign
Barb Goffman
Kim Kash
Adam Meyer
Alan Orloff
KM Rockwood
Lauren R. Silberman
Marianne Wilski Strong
Art Taylor
Robin Templeton
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[2019]
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214 pages ; 21 cm
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It is 1940, the time of the Phoney War. Britain stands alone with German invaders waiting across the Channel and an anxious population preparing for the bloody battle ahead. In an isolated girls' boarding school, Judy Randall watches the encroachment of the war with a mixture of fascination and fear. She is sixteen-years-old, an anarchic misfit in an institution which prizes rule-keeping and conformity; a Catholic with a Jewish heritage when anti-Semitism...
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