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All Time Faves: Novels of World War II
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Dream When You're Feeling Blue From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "We Are All Welcome Here" and "Open House" comes Berg's superb new novel, set in the time of World War II, about the three Heaney sisters and the men they love. ...More |
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The Yokota Officers Club After a year away at college, military brat Bernadette Root has come "home" to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, to spend the summer with her bizarre yet comforting clan. Ruled by a strict, regimented Air Force Major father, but grounded in their mother's particular brand of humor, Bernie's family was destined for military greatness during the glory days of the mid-'50s. But in Base life, where an unkempt lawn is cause for reassignment, one fateful misstep changed the Roots' world forever. Yet the family's silence cannot keep the wounds of the past from reemerging . . . nor can the memory fade of beloved Fumiko, the family's former maid, whose ...More |
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Plum Wine A young American teaching in Tokyo in the 1960s is set on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother dies, leaving her a tansu of homemade plum wines wrapped in rice paper. Within the papers Barbara discovers writings in Japanese calligraphy that comprise a startling personal narrative. ...More |
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Sarah's Key Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. ...More |
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Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th, Book One of the Pacific War Series President Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on December 8, 1941, lasted a mere six and half minutes. But his words and tone--in a monologue that would later be named the Infamy Speech--sent ripples into a nation and a world that continue even today. The historical implications that emerged from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were unprecedented, launching America not only into the depths of a dangerous war, but forever altering the safety and comfort of everyday living. December 8th became a day of speaking out publicly and declaring war; of action, battle, plotting, and victories. This date's significance is resonant and profound as an indelible moment in American history....More |
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Atonement Soon to be a major motion picture from Focus Features, "Atonement" is a novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness--with repercussions that are felt through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the 20th century. ...More |
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Red Rover From the acclaimed author of "Rima in the Weeds" and "My Russian" comes this stirring novel about idealism laid waste and the haunting, redemptive bonds of friendship. ...More |
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The Deadly Embrace: A Novel of World War II This richly woven page-turner follows a young American woman to war-torn England as she struggles to safeguard the Allies' most important intelligence secrets. ...More |
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1940 Dr. Eduard Bloch, the Austrian Jewish physician who cared for Adolph Hitler's family, is at the center of Neugeboren's long-awaited novel, his first in 20 years. ...More |
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White Flag Down In this rich, complex novel, based on newly declassified documents, Ross takes readers on a breathtaking chase through World War II Europe, where everyones motives are suspect--and nobody is neutral. ...More |
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An Outrageous Affair A mysterious, tragic accident in the 1950s; an inexplicable suicide 20 years later--what is the strange link between the two? This seductively readable ("The Times" [London]) saga explores the extraordinary, sometimes fatal, consequences of truth. ...More |
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