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1) Coming home
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1996, �1995
Language
English
Description
Judith Dunbar comes of age while confronting her feelings about love and sadness and journeying back to her childhood home.
Author
Series
Maggie Hope mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"London. December, 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope, secret agent and spy, takes a break from the Special Operations Executive division to defuse bombs in London. But Maggie herself is like an explosion waiting to happen. Shaken by a recent case, she finds herself living more dangerously--taking more risks than usual, smoking again, drinking gin and riding a motorcycle--and the last thing she wants is to...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1940 London, Josie, with nothing left and nowhere to go, ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host of the survivors of the Blitz, and convinces her to open a tea shop, seeing it as a chance for everyone to begin again.
Author
Series
Shoes volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
During World War II in England, three motherless children, whose father is reported missing in action, go to live with their grandmother in London and join the members of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!" As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir in the absence of men and instead "carry on singing." Resurrecting themselves as "The Chilbury Ladies' Choir,"...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection"-- Provided by publisher.
8) All clear
Author
Series
Publisher
Spectra/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When three Oxford historians become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle to find them.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman's unraveling during the Blitz--a story of WWII intrigue, love, and danger. It is 1940 and bombs are falling on London. Watching from her attic window, Charlotte sees enemy planes flying in over the city and her neighbours' homes turning to rubble. Still grieving for her beloved brother who never returned from France, Charlotte has moved away from her overbearing father...
Author
Series
Maggie Hope mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"This New York Times bestselling mystery series continues as American-born codebreaker extraordinaire, Maggie Hope, returns to England to continue her intelligence work during World War II. England, 1942. Great Britain and the U.S. have joined forces to fight the Nazis. In London, Maggie Hope takes on the biggest challenge of her career: finding a killer who models himself on Jack the Ripper--and who targets female intelligence agents...like Maggie"--...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one of the girls at work is murdered, and Evelyne must use...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 16
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Entreated by a witness nobody believes to investigate a murder, Maisie Dobbs uncovers a conspiracy with devastating implications for Britain's war effort during the Nazi occupation of Europe.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a story of friendship past and present, love, and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day. London, 1939. In a city on the brink of war, beautiful and ambitious Eva Harlow and her best friend, sweet Southerner Precious Dubose, are young models on the rise--and a duo as close as sisters. But when Eva falls in love with Graham St. John, an aristocrat and former...
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