WWII
What Is Left of the Night: A World War II Novel
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Biographical FictionInspirational
The story of André Trocmé, pastor of a small village in southeastern France during the Second World War, is well known. He and ...Read Review
Inharmonious
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In 1941 Florida, young adult siblings Benny and Cora North live with their widowed mother. Benny is light-skinned enough to pass for white, which ...Read Review
The Secret Ranch
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1942 Grants Pass, Oregon. Jean lives with her parents and sister and is very worried about her two brothers, who are fighting in World ...Read Review
The Kaboom Boys (A Call to War)
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A captain and corporal of the US Army Bomb Disposal squad huddle against a rock wall next to a 4000-lb SC-2000 bomb that ...Read Review
The Pilot’s Wife
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In 2018, Gina’s 93-year-old grandmother, Hedy, wants to return to Switzerland from America to correct a 1940s wrong. Is Hedy deluded or driven? ...Read Review
The Deadly Life of Diana Penn
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Successful MI6 agent Diana Penn retires to the Northumberland village of Cheviot Hills – the same village she’d been billeted to with the ...Read Review
The Name on the Wall
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First, despite the publisher’s subtitle, this book is not a novel. Maybe it’s “creative nonfiction.” Hervé Le Tellier says: “True, I ...Read Review
Skylark
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In her newest novel, Paula McLain takes us once more to Paris, this time the troubled Paris of the 1660s and the 1940s. ...Read Review
The Teacher Evacuees
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The Teacher Evacuees is a warm, quietly gripping wartime novel that brings a familiar chapter of Second World War history into sharp, humane ...Read Review
Anna at War
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Anna Schlesinger is twelve years old in 1938 when she is reluctantly sent by her loving parents on the Kindertransport from Germany to England ...Read Review
