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61) My son's secret
Author
Series
Jews the Third Reich and a web of secrets volume Book 1
Publisher
[Roberta Kagan]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
My beautiful boy ... Created in love ... born into hatred. There were so many terrifying stories about the Jews. People called them useless vermin, filthy, dangerous. Before I met Abram, I was afraid of them too. But I am about to tell you a very different story - a forbidden story. My love for Abram defied all reason ... as well as German law. Tonight our son giggles with excitement as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But our safety...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374, 10 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first Black women allowed to serve in the army, Grace Steele and Eliza Jones, helping form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, navigate their way through the segregated ranks, finally making it overseas where they do their parts for the country they love.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Forever edition.
Physical Desc
467 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"London, 1944: Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While war ravages the city above her, Clara has risked everything she holds dear to turn the Bethnal Green tube station into the country's only underground library. Down here, a secret community thrives with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a caf�e, and a theater--offering shelter, solace, and escape from the bombs that fall upon their city. Along with her glamorous best friend and assistant...
64) Afterlives
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza too, is...
Author
Series
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"The final installment in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Tales series, chronicling the epic story of the making of England. England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea, and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty and sworn oaths, the warrior king Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg faces his greatest ever battle - and prepares for his ultimate fate."--Publisher's...
66) A daring escape
Author
Series
London chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Danger Closes In, Who Will Save the Children? At the height of World War II, American Amity Mitchell is living a comfortable life abroad as a tutor in England. But that changes when an urgent telegram arrives from her brother, Andrew, summoning her to Prague. Andrew's efforts to help Jewish children escape Czechoslovakia have grown desperate as Nazi forces tighten their grip on the country. Amity knows she can't ignore God's call to join Andrew...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions to other parts of Asia. As their expansion efforts grow bolder, their enemies know that Japan's ultimate goal is total conquest over the region, especially when the Japanese align themselves with Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
422, 12 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Enduring privation when Japan declares war on England, a teacher at a British missionary school in China is sent to a distant internment camp, where she provides support and instruction to incarcerated children taken from their parents.
69) Iwo, 26 Charlie
Author
Series
P. T. Deutermann's World War II volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 276 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The island of Iwo Jima was the epic land and sea battle that produced one of the iconic images of WWII: the Marines raising the American flag on Mount Surabachi, an active volcano that was the site of intense hand to hand combat. In this gripping novel, Deutermann follows a young gunnery liaison officer, Lee Bishop, who during the ferocious battle for the island is pulled from his station aboard the USS Nevada to serve on-shore as a spotter, calling...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by a true story, three best friends from Mobile, Alabama are captured in the Philippines during WWII--they vow to return home together. They struggle to survive against impossible odds that becomes known as the Bataan Death March"--
71) Sons of valor
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Navy SEAL Keith "Chunk" Redman has been one of the military's top doorkickers since the day he pinned on his trident: loyal, single-minded, lethal. Tasked to lead a new, covert team of Tier One SEALs--the most elite special operators in the world--Chunk can no longer simply rely on the status quo. To safeguard America, he needs help to stay a step ahead of its adversaries. Brilliant at spotting patterns in the data that others miss, ex-CIA analyst...
72) Radar girls
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the real women of the Women's Air Raid Defense, this extraordinary novel follows Daisy Wilder as she, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, enlists in a top secret program, which takes her to wartime Hawaii where she finds love, courage, strength, and sisterhood.
Author
Series
Electra McDonnell volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to Deceit, is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit. London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor-well, to themselves, anyway-Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government's war effort. It's true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn't give...
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zac Topping's Wake of War is a timely account of the lengths those with power will go to preserve it, and the determination of those they exploit to destroy everything in the name of freedom anew. "I just hope I'm on the right side of history." The United States of America is a crumbling republic. With the value of the dollar imploding, the government floundering, and national outrage and resentment growing by the hour, a rebellion has caught fire....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Language
English
Description
With his reputation already on the line for refusing to join the Nazi party, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigates a series of brutal murders during the Third Reich's forced nightly blackouts during the brutally cold winter of 1939 in Berlin.
76) Lines of courage
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistice Day in 1918, the story follows the fates of five young people on both sides of the conflict--each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together. Includes information on the history of the war.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers." Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a freezing night in January 1941, a little Jewish girl is found on the steps of an apartment building in Bucharest. With Romania recently allied with the Nazis, the Jewish population is in grave danger so the girl is placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by a wealthy childless couple who name her Natalia. As she assimilates into her new life, she all but forgets the parents who were forced to leave her behind. As a young woman in Soviet...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the first woman to ever serve in the US Army.
"Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my Mama never let me forget it." Cathy Williams was born and lived a slave until the Union army came and destroyed the only world she had ever known. Separated from her family, she makes the impossible decision: to fight with...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Crime Wise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First north American edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A haunting, atmospheric mystery set against a country divided, by the author of A House of Ghosts January 1921. Though the Great War is over, in Ireland a new civil war is raging. The once-grand Kilcolgan House, a crumbling bastion shrouded in sea mist, lies half empty and filled with ghosts, both real and imagined, while it shelters the surviving members of the Prendeville family. Then, when an IRA ambush goes terribly wrong, Maud Prendeville, Lord...