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eBooks for November November 2017
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World War I...fiction and non-fiction. All titles are available for download to a variety of devices at nh.overdrive.com Questions? Call Cary at the library, 603-757-1838.
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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn [Fiction]Two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.
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The Angel Makers by Jessica Gregson [Fiction]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.
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By the Blood of Heroesby Joseph Nassise [Fiction]When the increasingly desperate Germans introduce T-Leiche, a gas that resurrects the bodies of the dead, to the battlefield in 1917, leading to the capture of Allied pilot and war poster-boy Major Jack Freeman, Captain Michael Madman Burke and his band of heroes must stay undead to rescue him.
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Catastrophe 1914 : Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings [Non-fiction]The author of Inferno and recipient of numerous British Press Awards presents a history of early World War I that traces the breakdown of diplomatic measures and the dramatic non-trench battles that occurred throughout the first year.
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A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd [Fiction]Bess Crawford, a nurse in World War I, promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will deliver his dying request to his brother, a request that is treated with skepticism, leading Bess to carry it out herself, putting her own life at risk for Arthur's sake.
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The Empire of the Sensesby Alexis Landau [Fiction]The sweeping story of the Perlmutter family opens with the moment when Lev, the assimilated, cultured German Jewish father at the center of this saga, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his beautiful gentile wife Josephine and their children Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev's and Josephine's viewpoints, Part I focuses on Lev's life-changing experiences on the Eastern Front, where he becomes involved with a local Jewish woman in the poor village where he is stationed. Part II, which takes place in 1927-1928, picks up in Berlin when the Perlmutter children are young adults grappling with their own set of questions.
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To End all Wars : A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918by Adam Hochschild [Non-fiction]An epic chronicle of the first World War places an emphasis on the moral dilemmas raised by the war's critics, citing the achievements and associations of famous detractors while exploring how the war's lessons have particular relevance in today's world.
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Fall of Giantsby Ken Follett [Fiction]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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A Front Page Affairby Radha Vatsal [Fiction]When a man is murdered at a high society picnic on her beat, journalist Kitty Weeks is plunged into a wartime conspiracy that threatens to derail the United States' attempt to remain neutral and to disrupt the privileged life she has always known.
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The Guns of August by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman [Non-fiction]A definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris.
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Jack of Spies by David Downing [Fiction]Secretly working as a spy, Scottish car salesman Jack McColl seeks to prove himself on the eve of World War I only to encounter adversaries and a suffragette journalist whose family is embroiled in a movement Jack's bosses are fighting.
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Maisie Dobbsby Jacqueline Winspear [Fiction]In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I.
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The Millionaires' Unit : The Aristocratic Flyboys who Fought the Great War and Invented American Airpower by Marc Wortman [Non-fiction]The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockefeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. They had it all and, remarkably by modern standards, they were prepared to risk it all to fight a distant war in France. Driven by the belief that their membership in the American elite required certain sacrifice, schooled in heroism and the nature of leadership, they determined to be first into the conflict, leading the way ahead of America's declaration that it would join the war.
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Seven Days in May : A Novel of the Lusitania by Kim Izzo [Fiction]As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey. Sydney has other adventures in mind; she is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement. As international tempers flare, the German embassy releases a warning that any ships making the Atlantic crossing are at risk. Undaunted, Sydney and Brooke board the Lusitania for the seven-day voyage with Edward, not knowing that disaster lies ahead.
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The Spyby Clive Cussler [Fiction]Investigating a disputed ruling that a brilliant pre-World War I battleship gun designer committed suicide, chief investigator Isaac Bell of the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency discovers that an elusive spy with ties to a top-secret project has been staging the killings of America's leading technological minds.
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The Summer Before the Warby Helen Simonson [Fiction]Arriving in the 1914 village of Rye, England, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes a first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew. By the best-selling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
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Wakeby Anna Hope [Fiction]Three women confront the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives, including dance teacher Hettie, who pursues a dubious relationship; Pensions Exchange worker Evelyn, who mourns the changes in her brother; and Ada, who sees her missing son everywhere.
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World War I Companion by Matthias Strohn [Non-fiction]World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America, fought in a life or death struggle that would topple the crowned heads of Europe and redraw the map of the Continent.. In the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict, 14 renowned historians from around the world examine some of the key aspects of the war, providing a wide-ranging analysis of the whole conflict beyond but including the stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front.
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