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River of Darkness
by Rennie Airth
Tormented by his harrowing wartime experiences and the loss of his family, Inspector John Madden is sent by Scotland Yard to investigate when a small Surrey village is torn apart by five horrific murders and joins forces with a beautiful doctor to capture the killer, a demented veteran of World War I.
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The Vctory Garden
by Rhys Bowen
Marrying an Australian pilot during World War I, Emily volunteers to tend the neglected grounds of a Devonshire estate where she finds inspiration and support in an herbalist's long-forgotten journals.
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The Spy: a Novel of Mata Hari
by Paulo Coelho
When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage.
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One Man's Flag
by David Downing
British spy Jack McColl defends the 1915 Empire in India against Bengali terrorists while his ex-girlfriend, a suffragette journalist investigates the death of her IRA-sympathizer brother.
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Last Christmas in Paris
by Hazel Gaynor
After seeing her brother and his best friend off to the front in August 1914, a privileged young lady, Evie Elliott, tries to become more involved in the conflict and begins working at her father’s newspaper business.
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Seven Days in May
by Kim Izzo
Heiresses Brooke and Sydney, along with Brooke's fiancé, board the Lusitania for England as World War One rages around them, and their paths cross with Isabel Nelson, a young woman who's found employment with the British Admiralty.
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The Winter Soldier
by Daniel Mason
A young doctor and nurse fall in love while navigating the brutal realities of World War I at an underequipped and understaffed field hospital in the Carpathian Mountains.
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Not All Bastards Are From Vienna
by Andrea Molesini
A U.S. release of an award-winning debut novel portrays the heroism and traumas within a Northern Italian village at the end of World War I and the experiences of a family that is forced to confront the war's injustices when their villa is requisitioned by enemy troops.
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The Winter Ghosts
by Kate Mosse
Traveling through the French Pyrenees to process the horrors of World War I, Freddie meets a lovely young woman also in mourning with whom he exchanges stories that unravel a centuries-old mystery.
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Somewhere in France
by Jennifer Robson
Defying her parents, Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford moves to London and becomes an ambulance driver in the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which takes her to the Western Front where she falls in love with a Scottish surgeon.
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No Man's Land
by Simon Tolkien
A tale inspired by the true experiences of the author's grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, during World War I traces how an impoverished youth endures the loss of his mother and brutality in a Scarsdale mining community before falling in love, winning a scholarship to Oxford and seeing everything he longs for threatened by World War I.
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Fall of Poppies
by Jessica Brockmole
An anthology of poignant stories about love, strength, family and renewal in the aftermath of World War I features contributions by such best-selling authors as Jessica Brockmole, Marci Jefferson and Lauren Willig.
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The Care and Management of Lies
by Jacqueline Winspear
By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come. Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia's responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil. As Tom marches to the front lines, and Kezia battles to keep her ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort. Even Tom's fellow soldiers in the trenches enter and find solace in the dream world of Kezia's mouth-watering, albeit imaginary meals. But will well-intended lies and self-deception be of use when they come face to face with the enemy?
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