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Toby's Room : a novel
by Pat Barker
A portrait of an upper-class family torn by World War I centers on an anguished sister whose beloved brother goes missing in action, in an epic tale that explores the poignant experiences of the family members and the working-class people who support them. By the Booker Prize-winning author of The Ghost Road. 35,000 first printing.
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The Sandcastle Girls
by Chris Bohjalian
A historical love story inspired by the author's Armenian heritage finds early 20th-century nurse Elizabeth Endicott arriving in Syria to help deliver food and medical aid to genocide refugees, a volunteer service during which she exchanges letters with an Armenian engineer and widower. By the best-selling author of Midwives. 100,000 first printing.
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A Long Long Way
by Sebastian Barry
Leaving behind his family in Dublin in order to join the Allied forces during World War I, eighteen-year-old Willie Dunne survives the horrors of war through his correspondences with loved ones and his friendships with fellow soldiers, but his return home is devastated by political tensions in Ireland. 20,000 first printing.
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Waiting for Sunrise
by William Boyd
Wrongly accused of rape, Lysander Rief, a young English actor, finds his life taking a dangerous turn when the men who help him escape a conviction recruit him for a lethal mission that leads him to a traitor who is linked to his family
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The Absolutist
by John Boyne
In September 1919, 21-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to the sister of a man he fought alongside of during World War I, but the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. Original.
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The Day the Falls Stood Still
by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Living in 1915 near Niagara Falls, 17-year-old Bess Heath, who is struggling to cope with the death of her sister and the disgrace of her family, and Tom Cole, whose sixth sense of the river and the falls aids him in daring rescues, are the key players in a transformative love story. A first novel. Reprint. A best-selling book. 60,000 first printing.
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Léon and Louise : a novel
by Alex Capus
In a novel based on the life of the author's French grandfather, Léon and Louise must navigate the earth-shaking events of two World Wars if they are ever going to be together. Original. Longlisted for the German Book Prize. 10,000 first printing.
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Birds Without Wings
by Louis De Bernières
In a small town in Anatolia in the finals days of the Ottoman Empire, the lives of its inhabitants--Armenians, Christians, and Muslims--peacefully intertwine, until Mustafa Kemal, a powerful military leader, conscripts the young men of the village to battle the invading Western European forces during the Great War, and religious fanaticism and nationalism destroy the peace. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
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Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage
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The Angel Makers
by Jessica Gregson
Enjoying freedom and friendship with neighbor women in her 1916 Hungarian village when the abusive men in their lives go off to war, medicine woman Sari uses her skills to kill her returned husband and is quickly sought by her new friends for the same service, with dire results. A first novel.
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The Sojourn
by Andrew Krivak
Uprooted from a nineteenth century mining town in Colorado by a shocking family tragedy, young Jozef Vinich returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd's life in rural Austria-Hungary. When war comes, Jozef is sent as a sharpshooter to the southern front, where he must survive the killing trenches, a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps, and capture by a victorious enemy
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Charity Girl
by Michael Lowenthal
During World War I, after an impulsive night with an infected soldier, Frieda Mintz, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl, is sent to a makeshift detention center, where she is subjected to poor living conditions, invasive medical exams, and life-changing relationships with other "charity girls" in similar circumstances, in a novel based on a little-known chapter in American history. Reprint.
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Depths
by Henning Mankell
Sent on a mission to take covert depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago, World War I Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman finds himself passionately attracted to an isolated young widow whose wild nature is in total contrast to his wife's reserved and elegant personality. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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A Bond Never Broken
by Judith Miller
As anti-German sentiment during World War I threatens to tear apart the peaceful life of the Amana Colonies, the inhabitants of the Amana villages must rally to protect their own. Original.
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A Heart Most Worthy
by Siri L. Mitchell
On the eve of World War I, three Italian immigrants--Julietta, Annamaria and Luciana--dream of love, but each harbors a secret from their families and from each other that could destroy their hopes of finding happiness. Original.
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The Last Town on Earth
by Thomas Mullen
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a mill town called Commonwealth votes to quarantine itself in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic, but a violent confrontation with a tired, hungry, and cold soldier will have devastating repercussions for the entire town.
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The Wine of Solitude
by Irène Némirovsky
A biographical tale by the internationally best-selling author of Suite Française explores the troubled relationship a young girl, her self-absorbed mother and her mother's lover as it is shaped by World War I and the Russian Revolution, during which the girl blossoms into an angry and disillusioned young woman. Original. 40,000 first printing.
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Park Lane : a novel
by Frances Osborne
"When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she's unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane, where she is quickly caught up in lives of its inhabitants-- in particular, those of its privileged son, Edward, and daughter, Beatrice, who is recovering from a failed relationship that would have taken her away from an increasingly stifling life. Desperate to find a new purpose, Bea joins a group of radical suffragettes and strikes up an intriguing romance with an impassioned young lawyer. Unbeknownst to each of the young women, the choices they make amid the rapidly changing world of WWI will connect their chances at future happiness in dramatic and inevitable ways" -- p. [4] of cover
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The Cove
by Ron Rash
Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious mute stranger
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The Little Russian
by Susan Sherman
A grocer's daughter in a small Russian town unknowingly falls in love with a member of The Jewish Worker's League who is involved in smuggling operations, which causes him to flee the country while she stays behind as Russia descends into war
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The Return of Captain John Emmett
by Elizabeth Speller
When an old flame asks for his help in finding the truth about her veteran brother's alleged suicide, detective Bartram uncovers a link between a group of war poets and a feud in the victim's regiment before more veterans are discovered dead
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