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2) The women
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English
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NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s, Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are inseparable due to Molly's bouts of mental confusion, and as Peggy goes to great lengths to protect her sister's secret, she falls in love with a charming composer, which sparks the bitterest of betrayals.
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Series
Dericott tale volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Set in medieval England, eighteen-year-old Louisa teams up with the chivalrous knight, Sir Charles, to find hidden treasure and save her younger sister Margaret before their uncle marries her off.
6) A sure duke
Author
Series
McQuoids of Mayfair volume 3
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Proper lady of the ton and her slightly scandalous, intensely charming neighbor discover they have a lot in common during an unexpectedly magical night"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, twelve-year-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-of-war camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and truly be free"--
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Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world"--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Based on real accounts of Britain's Land Girls and the Forgotten Blitz, The British Booksellers highlights the courageous choices we must make to live, love, and--in the face of all that tests us--fight for what matters most"--
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet in 1942, Tuyet meets and falls in love with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi, a wounded veteran with a good heart, but when he risks his life for the Resistance, she and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
12) Dead of night
Author
Series
Berlin wartime thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After the SS rules a doctor's mysterious death a suicide, the man's widow and Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigate while trying not to run afoul of the Gestapo.
Author
Series
Synneful spinsters volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When the Duke of Balgair, the husband who betrayed her years ago, arrives on the remote isle of Synne, determined to bring her back to Scotland, Seraphina, although the attraction still burns strong between them, doesn't know if they'll ever find their way back to each other.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When a betrayal tears apart three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate, their friendship may be fractured forever. Years later, one of them risks exposure as a fraud unless she can mend the relationships and solicit help to create an original woven design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding"--
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English
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"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny--and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard boldly sweeps through the castles, villages, and galleys of twelfth-century Europe, in an adventure that takes him from the shores of Brittany to the steppes of Russia."--Provided by publisher.
19) Artifice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the author's family history, this...story transports us to the aftermath of World War II where her father, Josef Helfer, after returning from the war an amputee, managed a convalescent home for the war-wounded and became obsessed with the home's unlikely and remarkable library"--
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