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No One is Here Except All of Us
by Ramona Ausubel
When an isolated Jewish village in Romania is threatened by war in 1939, the suggestions of a young child and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank compels the community to reinvent itself while completely detaching from the known world, a creative plan that involves disturbing reassignments of jobs and families. 25,000 first printing.
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HHhH
by Laurent Binet
"An award-winning historical dramatization from France imagines the story of two Czechoslovakian partisans responsible for assassinating ""Butcher of Prague"" Reinhard Heydrich, tracing their heroic escape from the Nazis and recruitment by the British secret service through their meticulous preparation for a stealth attack and brutal deaths in a Prague church. 20,000 first printing."
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Ragnarök : the End of the Gods
by A. S. Byatt
Presents a retelling of the Norse myth about the end of the world that follows the blitz-era evacuation of a young girl whose worldview is dramatically changed upon reading "Asgard and the Gods."
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The Jade Peony : a novel
by Wayson Choy
Told through the reminiscences of the three young children of an immigrant Chinese family, an uplifting novel captures the realities of prejudice, the mishaps of adolescence, and the horrors of an impending world war, in Vancouver's Chinatown during the early 1940s. Reprint.
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The Time in Between : a novel
by María Dueñas
An English-language release of an internationally best-selling novel finds poor seamstress Sira Quiroga forging a new identity during the Spanish Civil War and rising to the most sought-after couture designer in North Africa, where she is enlisted to pass coded information to the British Secret Service. A first novel. Reprint.
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Next to Love : a novel
by Ellen Feldman
Follows the stories of three young couples whose lives are irrevocably changed in the years following World War II, a period during which they struggle with difficult losses and witness profound transformations in American culture. By the award-nominated author of The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank. Reprint.
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Mission to Paris : a novel
by Alan Furst
Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists
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22 Britannia Road
by Amanda Hodgkinson
Leaving Poland for England at the end of World War II, Silvana is accompanied by 8-year-old, near-feral Aurek, with whom she shares traumatic wartime memories that set them apart from her husband, who has remade himself as an Englishman to forget the past. A first novel. Reprint.
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The Soldier's Wife : a novel
by Margaret Leroy
As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom she cares while her husband is away fighting. What she does not expect is that she will fall in love with one of the enigmatic German soldiers who take up residence in the house next door to her home
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Trapeze
by Simon Mawer
At the age of 19, fluent-French-speaking Briton Marian Sutro is recruited for service in the Special Operations Executive during World War II, only to find that another secret organization wants her to infiltrate Paris to persuade a research physicist to join the Allied war effort. By the author of The Glass Room. Original.
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Blue Skies Tomorrow : a novel
by Sarah Sundin
Helen Carlisle, a young war widow covers her pain with the frenzy of volunteer work until the spark of her romance with Lt. Raymond Novak, a WWII pilot, propels them both into peril. Original.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation. (Read by 35 adults.)
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Jasmine Nights
by Julia Gregson
Touring the small clubs and talent contests of Wales, naïve young singer Saba Tarcan jumps at an opportunity to travel with a touring group entertaining troops serving in the Middle East, where she is tapped by the Secret Service to spy on a Turkish impresario and where she reconnects with a flight-obsessed fighter pilot.
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Jack 1939
by Francine Mathews
Tapped by President Franklin Roosevelt to travel to Europe and learn what the Nazis are actually planning, 22-year-old John F. Kennedy, a sickly and unpromising second son of Roosevelt's Ambassador to Britain, becomes embroiled in the president's high-stakes effort to stop the flow of German money that is influencing the 1940 U.S. election. 30,000 first printing.
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City of Women
by David R. Gillham
Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family. A first novel.
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