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Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside.When German bombs set London ablaze, BBC radio correspondent Hugh Collingwood reports on the Blitz, eager to boost morale...
82) Wolves of winter
Author
Series
Essex dogs trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting--and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France 'til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield. Obsessed with tracking down the vanished...
83) Glasslands
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
After the defeat of the Covenant and the death of billions of people, Dr. Rachel Halsey, thought to be dead, discovers a technology that can save mankind, as the Kilo-Five hunts for her and the Venezia colony makes plans to attack a weakened Earth.
84) Four-four-two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
85) The night war
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--
86) The blood years
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents a twist on themes from Moby Dick in the story of a proud warrior whale pod that attacks a ship before pursuing a near-mythical adversary on a vengeful hunt that risks the worlds of both whales and humans.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The author of sixteen consecutive New York Times bestsellers sets his sights on the jewel of the South-Savannah-and brings it to life in his inimitable style. Georgia, 1864: Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah where the Lester ladies -- attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie -- struggle to save the family rice plantation. When Sherman offers the conquered city...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"North meets South in the second installment of this popular Civil War series Carrie Ann Collier has been a newlywed for nineteen blissful days--as blissful as life can be in the midst of war, that is. Soon that war will take a toll she never expected. When her new husband, Peyton, goes missing during battle, she refuses to believe he is dead, and must find a way to move forward with everyday life in the face of fear. As Carrie struggles with how...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A World War II novel about a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies"--
"Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb...
95) None stood taller: from the ashes of the Blitz to the D-Day landings. One woman's remarkable story
Author
Series
None stood taller volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow Lily Heywood as she overcomes all that the Blitz takes from her and makes her way from the East End of 1941 London to an integral role in the British wartime establishment and the battle of D-Day.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Based on the true story of Ida and Louise Cook, British sisters who smuggled valuables out of 1930s Nazi Germany to finance a daring, secret operation to help Jews find hope for a new life in England"--
"Based on the true story of the Cook sisters, who smuggled valuables out of 1930s Nazi Germany to finance a daring, secret operation to help Jews find hope for a new life in England. British sisters Ida and Louise Cook enjoy their quiet, unassuming...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Hazel Thornton has one great ambition: to help the sick and wounded as a nurse. But that dream can never become a reality. After a devastating childhood trauma, she has spent her life battling fits of panic that make it impossible to finish her studies. Everything changes, however, when a trip to Spain takes a perilous turn that derails her plans to visit her father for Christmas and immediately plunges her into the dangers of a brutal war. With...
Author
Series
George Washington novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1777, Washington and his demoralized army retreat from Philadelphia, arriving at Valley Forge where they discover that their repeated requests for a stockpile of food, winter clothing, and building tools have been ignored by Congress. In spite of the suffering and deceit, Washington endures all, joined at last by a volunteer from Germany who begins the hard task of recasting the army as a professional fighting force capable of facing...
99) If I were you
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling and eight-time Christy Award-winning author Lynn Austin comes a remarkable novel of sisterhood and self-discovery set against the backdrop of WWII. 1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son. As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ranger, a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, heads to Normandy on the morning of the D-Day invasion where he meets Leo, a Jewish boy who is hiding with a local farmer, and Walt, a young American soldier fighting to free France from the Nazis.
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