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English
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It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive--to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances...
62) The Civil War
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2011-2014]
Language
English
Description
" ... Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, 'The Civil War: The First Year' brings together over 120 pieces by more than sixty participants to create a unique firsthand narrative of this great historical crisis ..."--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An experienced and award-winning journalist describes life in Syria during one of recent history's most brutal conflicts through the eyes of everyday people, including a doctor, a nun, a musician and a student.
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English
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"Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those...
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English
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On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family is caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage, and it's only the first time he saves her life in a span of hours. When Germany claims no involvement in the attack, insisting the Spanish Republic was responsible, Griff guides Sibi to lie to Nazi officials. If she...
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Century trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
70) Slash and burn
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Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brothers flee. Her life in danger, she joins the rebellion in the hills, where her comrades force her to give up the baby she conceives. Years later, having outlived countless men, she leaves to find her lost daughter, traveling across the Atlantic with meager resources. She returns to a community riven with...
71) March: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize—a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord.
From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect...
From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Wishing to show off his strength, bravery, and Yankee loyalty, Henry Flemming eagerly signs up to fight for the Union. Once in the heat of battle, though, he has a change of heart and quickly recedes from the line of duty. Later, feeling enormously guilty about his cowardice, Henry commits an act of true courageousness.
74) Legacies
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Z"As the Civil War looms, it threatens to tear apart not only the nation, but also families, heritage, and even love itself. Diane Parmelee, the beautiful daughter of the Union offiicer, finally has the chance to marry the love of her life, the handsome, Harvard-educated Lije Stuart. But, despite this love for Diane, Lije's allegiances lie with his plantation-owning Cherokee family, and in turn, the Confederacy. Further clouding Lije's heart, the...
75) Warlight
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English
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Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
Just after World War II, Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth and his eccentric crew of friends. These friends are men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified...
76) Lines of courage
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistice Day in 1918, the story follows the fates of five young people on both sides of the conflict--each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together. Includes information on the history of the war.
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English
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It's always been easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past, which is why working with an antiques dealer is perfect. While clearing out an estate, she pries open an old tin that holds the relics of a lost relationship: a World War II-era diary and a photograph of a young woman in uniform. Eager to find the author of the unfinished diary, Cara digs into this soldier's life, but soon realizes she may not have been ready for the stark reality...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
"Hailed by many as the greatest war novel of all time and publicly burned by the Nazis for being "degenerate," Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front, is an elegant statement on a generation of men destroyed by war. Caught up by a romantic sense of patriotism and encouraged to enlist by authority figures who would not risk their lives to do the same, Paul Bäumer and his classmates join the fighting in the trenches of the...
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Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Based on real history and alternating between three perspectives, When We Had Wings tells an amazingly moving story of heroic service, perseverance in the darkest of days, and the hope of the human spirit"--
The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they are living a paradise assignment. As the beauty...
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