WW2
A Sister’s Song
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The second in Green’s The Victory Sisters series, this wartime saga has Suzanne Linfoot, a talented violinist, joining the Entertainments National Service ...Read Review
Creatures of Charm and Hunger (The Diabolist’s Library)
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Towards the end of WWII, in a remote English village, two girls are being groomed to join the Société des Éclairées, ...Read Review
The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero
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March 1945, Lower Austria. Cornelia (Nelli) Deinhardt is a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family, it seems, had been killed in an Allied air raid in ...Read Review
Across the Winding River
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Aimie K. Runyan’s latest novel is told in three points of view, and the lives of these three characters intersect as the ...Read Review
Villa of Delirium
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Villa of Delirium is a literary novel, originally published in French, that brings to life the hypnotic story of one family—the Reinachs—...Read Review
The Summer We Found the Baby
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A baby in a basket, a first lady, and three precocious children are the ingredients of Amy Hest’s novel seton Long Island ...Read Review
The Lost Lights of St Kilda
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St Kilda is a tiny archipelago, the remnants of an ancient volcano, in the North Atlantic 40 miles west of the westernmost of the ...Read Review
The Light in Hidden Places
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Przemysl, Poland, 1943. This incredible true story of survival centers on Stefania Podgórska, the teenage girl who hid thirteen Jews in the attic ...Read Review
Sachiko
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Endō Shūsaku is enjoying a renaissance among readers worldwide. His best-known novel, Silence, was adapted into a feature film by acclaimed director ...Read Review
Women of Steel: The Feisty Factory Sisters Who Helped Win the War
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If you are looking for an exemplary piece of oral history, here it is. Women of Steel is based on interviews with twenty ...Read Review