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Forgotten Island: The WWII Story of One Sailor's Survival on Japanese-Occupied GuamForgotten Island is the story of Navy radioman George Tweed, who was trapped on Japanese-occupied Guam during World War II, and the American liberation of the island. The opening days of World War II in the Pacific found the island of Guam in the...
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The Sleeping BeautiesLate spring 1945, London: The war in Europe is over. But for Briar Woods, a dancer at Sadler's Wells Ballet, the past resurfaces and she must come face to face with the truth. It feels as though her war has only just begun. Since...
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The Lies We Leave BehindFor fans of Kate Quinn and Beatriz Williams, this sweeping story follows a fearless nurse who must leave love behind when duty calls her back to the front.Somewhere in the Pacific, 1943. Kate Campbell is a nurse who bravely flies back and forth from...
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Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and LossFrom the award-winning author of The Reversible Mask: An Elizabethan Spy Novel comes a searing tale of passion, redemption, betrayal, and heroism.New Guinea, 1941. Heroism, sacrifice and ultimately, hope, transcend the terrifying war.Two men preparing for war, both with secrets they are determined to...
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The Orphan's HomecomingThe USA Todaybestseller is back with a brand new gripping and heartfelt historical novel! Could the shifting winds of change finally carry Kitty home? After five long years of endless warfare, Red Cross nurse Kitty Pattison has seen her share of heartbreak and loss....
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The Gulls Fly InlandIt is October 1939. Blanche Lancret is a French exile in England, looking after her American friend Annabelle's baby. She iswaiting for news of Annabelle's brother Vernon, who is serving with an ambulance unit in newly-invaded France, and of her surrogate mother TanteJulie, a...
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The Broken Home BoysWhat Can a Young Boy Do When His Family Craters? Irrepressible nine-year-old Duncan Findlay does what he does best-he makes it an adventure. Come along on his journey through 1960s America as he navigates-with little guidance and few limits-that colorful and convulsive era. Santa...
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PolioHere David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert...
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America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign DictatorsWhy do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orbán's illiberal politics for his own policies as governor of Florida--a single American state...
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Under a Lightning SkyLondon is under attack. But within the rubble, a greater danger lurks... The Luftwaffe has been bombing London continuously since September 1940.During a bombing raid, Madeline Fairfax is caught in her kitchen whilst cooking for her husband and children. She becomes trapped in the...
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The Secret PianistSisters. Traitors. Spies. When a British RAF Whitley plane comes under fire over the French coast and is forced to drop their cargo, a spy messenger pigeon finds its way into unlikely hands...The occupation has taken much from the Cotillard sisters, and as the...
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The Last Light Over OsloBased on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the two are unexpectedly caught up in the German invasion of Norway.Cleo Jaffray was an...
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The Keeper of Lost ArtDuring World War II, a girl makes an unbreakable connection with a boy sheltering in her family's Tuscan villa, where the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries are hidden. A moving coming-of-age story about the power of art in wartime, based on true events.As Allied...
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The Hidden BookAuthor: Kirsty ManningPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 08/13/2024Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780063142794
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The Good LiarsFrom the author of stunning historical fiction books comes a Sunday Times bestselling new story of crime, deceit, and murder, set in the early 1920s...In the summer of 1914 a boy vanishes, never to be seen again.Now, in 1920, the once esteemed Stilwell family...
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The Crate: A Story Of War, A Murder, And JusticeAfter surviving the horrors of the Holocaust - in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps - a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their past are behind them. They build themselves...
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Stalin's Gold: A Deeply Captivating Classic Crime ThrillerPreviously published as Stalin's Gold. PRAISE FOR THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DCI FRANK MERLIN SERIES: 'A richly atmospheric, authentic, and suspenseful detective series' JOSEPH FINDER, NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Masterly . . . compelling . . . one of the most attractive characters to emerge in...
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The Hidden StorytellerInternational bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in war-torn Germany. The war is over. But there are still secrets to be found amidst the ashes . . . Hamburg, 1946 The war is over, and Germany is in ruins....
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political...
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The Windsor Conspiracy: A Novel of the Crown, a Conspiracy, and the Duchess of WindsorAuthor: Georgie BlalockPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 07/16/2024Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780063339842Review Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/2024 pg. 89
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