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The Things We Cannot Say
Kelly Rimmer - Graydon House
Format: Hardcover
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In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It's a decision that will alter her destiny ... and it's a lie that will remain buried until the next century.Since she was nine... |
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City of Girls: A Novel
Elizabeth Gilbert - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A great holiday gift, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good... |
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: A Novel
Jennifer Ryan - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A delightful debut." - People For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir unfolds the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of a village choir during World War II.As England becomes enmeshed... |
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Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel
Elizabeth Berg - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love.As the novel opens, Kitty and Louise Heaney say good-bye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael,... |
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The Postmistress
Sarah Blake - Putnam Adult; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Those who carry the truth sometimes bear a terrible burden... Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, The Postmistress is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women-and of two countries torn apart by war. On the eve of the United States's... |
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Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime
John Dunning
Format: Book
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It's the summer of 1942. Bombs are falling on Britain, daylight saving time has given way to wartime, and radio is in its prime. In Regina Beach, on the New Jersey coast, a troupe of gallant artists explores the promise of this exhilarating medium for WHAR, creating programming to entertain... |
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Tallgrass
Sandra Dallas - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions...
During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After... |
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel
Jamie Ford - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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"Sentimental, heartfelt ... .the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take... |
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When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination - both physical and emotional - of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five... |
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Gardenias: A Novel
Faith Sullivan - Milkweed Editions; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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It's 1942, just a month after the United States entered World War II. Lark, her mother Arlene, and Aunt Betty are in a station changing trains, leaving their lives in Harvester, Minnesota behind, and waiting for the train going to Los Angeles. Young men — soldiers — swarm... |
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The Women in the Castle: A Novel
Jessica Shattuck - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist "Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates." - New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic." - People magazine"Mesmerizing . . . The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature... |
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At the Water's Edge: A Novel
Sara Gruen - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this thrilling new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water's Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's awakening as she experiences... |
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Perfidia: A novel
James Ellroy - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIt is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americansbut now, war fever and race hate grip... |
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The Cherry Harvest: A Novel
Lucy Sanna - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book
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A memorable coming-of-age story and love story, laced with suspense, which explores a hidden side of the home front during World War II, when German POWs were put to work in a Wisconsin farm community . . . with dark and unexpected consequences.The war has taken a toll on the Christiansen... |
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Miss Dimple Disappears: A Mystery
Mignon F. Ballard - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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It's 1942, almost a year since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the residents of the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, have been rattled down to their worn, rationed shoes. For young teacher Charlie Carr, life and love aren't going exactly as planned - her head dictates loyalty to the handsome... |
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The Wives of Los Alamos: A Novel
TaraShea Nesbit - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (2014) in Fiction (historical fiction) and Best Book/New Mexico categoriesThey arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where... |
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Louise's War
Sarah Shaber - Severn House
Format: Print book
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It's 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington DC to work for the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. When she discovers a document concerning the husband of her college friend Rachel Bloch-a young French Jewish woman she is desperately... |
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