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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A historical novel based on the true stories of Polish prisoners in Nazi Germany finds a young member of the French resistance in occupied Paris navigating increasingly dangerous assignments and the machinations of an enigmatic spy.
62) Long way home
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience that he can barely function. When his parents check him into the VA hospital, Peggy determines to help the Barnetts unravel what might have happened, starting by contacting Jimmy's war buddies and trying to identify the woman in the photo they find in Jimmy's...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1941: As Coco Chanel's assistant, Adele lives side by side with German officers in the splendor of The Ritz hotel. But Adele has a secret. She is working for the resistance, right under the German's noses. As occupied Paris becomes more and more dangerous, Adele will have to decide if she can risk everything to save innocent lives and protect the man she loves... Present day: Chloe's grandmother has never spoken about the war and avoids questions...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When someone else lays claim to the cottage where he spent his childhood summers, Hugh, a historian, finds this person’s revelation unraveling a secret—a betrayal, a disappearance and an unstoppable acted of violence—that has impacted the Italian village of Valetto across generations.
65) The war outside
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1941 Paris, 80-something Clementine, a reformed con artist who bottles her favorite extracts for the ladies of cabarets, is recruited to steal the recipe book of a now-missing famous Parisian perfumer that has fallen into the hands of a Francophile Nazi bureaucrat.
67) The bicycle spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in position of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As WWII ends, Elise returns to Paris to reunite with her daughter only to find her friend Juliette, the woman she entrusted her daughter with, has seemingly vanished without a trace, which leads Elise on a desperate search to New York—and to Juliette—one final, fateful time.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A young noblewoman hides French resistance fighters in tunnels beneath her home while Germans occupy her house. Seventy years later, her granddaughter visits the family's abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is June 1941 and after the brutal rule of the Soviets the people of Krystia's small Ukrainian village are inclined to look on the German invaders as liberators; but soon the Nazis start rounding up Jewish Ukrainians, and Krystia is faced with a terrible choice--risk everything by helping her Jewish friends and neighbors to hide, or save herself and her family by doing nothing.
71) The war pianist
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Blitz-ridden London: Marnie's life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he'd been working undercover as a radio operative - or pianist - for the Dutch resistance, Marnie knows she must complete his mission - no matter the cost. Nazi-occupied Amsterdam: At the other end of the wireless, fellow pianist Corrie is caught in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to keep her loved...
Author
Series
Daughters of war volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1944 war-ravaged France, Florence Baudin receives a desperate request from her estranged mother to find her vanished sister, who went missing years before, and is drawn into a world of betrayals, secrets, and lies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1940 Paris, Police Inspector Henri Lefort, ordered by the Gestapo to find a missing neurologist, discovers the wayward scientist’s experimental work is connected to children being taken from orphanages and vows to stop these atrocities, risking the wrath of the SS and the Gestapo.
74) The keeper's son
Author
Series
Josh Thurlow novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
75) The postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after the arrival of an anonymous postcard with the names of her maternal great-grandparents and their children—all killed at Auschwitz—Anne Berest is moved to discover who sent it and why and embarks on a journey to learn the fate of the Rabinovitch family.
76) We are wolves
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of World War II, the Wolf family flees, but Liesl, Otto, and their baby sister Mia are separated from their mother and they are forced to do dangerous things in order to survive.
77) Different days
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps and falls for a beautiful widow, he also becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's most powerful commanders.
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