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Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1939. Lavender--La to her friends--decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered marriage. Settling in as small town, she organizes an amateur orchestra from the village and the local RAF base and falls in love with one of her prized recruits.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After Jack and Sadie Rosenblum and their baby daughter escape Berlin at the beginning of World War II, they settle in England, where Jack discovers that he is barred from joining a golf club, after which he hatches a plan to start his own.
7) Coming home
Author
Language
English
Description
The romantic adventures of Judith Dunbar, who inherits money from an aunt, allowing her to move freely in English society. The novel chronicles her affairs from boarding school days, through World War II service in the army, to the post-war years.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
In World War II-era England, Michael learns about his black British Army soldier grandfather, a World War I officer who risked his life to save wounded men but who did not receive special commendations because of his race.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale meets Anna Karenina, a vivid and captivating novel of love, war, and the resilience of one woman's spirit...England, 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered life. Once a promising pianist, she now has a handsome husband, a young son she adores, and a housekeeper who takes care of her comfortable home. Then, on the eve of war, a film crew arrives in her coastal town. She falls in love. The consequences are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the rural hamlet of Hampshire is plagued by a series of brutal murders as German bombers launch a relentless attack on England during World War II, Detective Inspector Thomas Lamb races against time to solve these crimes that are seemingly linked tothe occult.
11) Forbidden places
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Wartime is never easy, and Grace Bennett and her two friends are doing the best they can. Forbidden Places reveals the stories of one young woman who is widowed after only five years of marriage, a wife who rethinks her feelings after witnessing disturbing changes in her husband, and a woman who wonders if the war will free her from a brutal marriage.
12) A blind goddess
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Returning to 1944 Italy to tackle two cases, including the murder of an accountant who may or may not have had military connections, U.S. Army Lieutenant Billy Boyle begins to suspect that his superiors do not want him to solve the murder.
13) Theater shoes
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
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.
14) When I was yours
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set in the English countryside of 1939, seven-year-old Pearl Posner is evacuated to Vivienne's home for safety, and as World War II builds in Europe, Vivi and Pearl learn of a connection between them that in turn leads Vivienne to confront her relationship with her husband and long-lost sister.
England, 1939. War has broken out, and hundreds of children are evacuated to the countryside to keep them safe from the bombs raining down on the cities....
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sands on England's southern coast, US Army Captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Lieutenant Piotr 'Kaz' Kazimierz, are assigned to investigate. The Devonshire beach is the home to Operation Tiger, the top-secret rehearsal for the approaching D-Day invasion of Normandy, and the area is restricted; no one seems to know where the corpse could have come from. Luckily, Billy and Kaz have a comfortable...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the late summer of 1941, as the war in Europe drags on, long-buried secrets begin to surface in the Hampshire village of Winstead, when the body of a young woman--a former conscientious objector - is found shot to death in the church cemetery. The woman's only connection to Winstead seems to be that she lately had joined a group of conscripted workers who are building a prisoner of war camp on an abandoned farm near the village. But Detective Chief...
Author
Series
Johnny Maxwell trilogy volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Maxwell acquires the neighborhood homeless woman's shopping cart when she is injured and discovers that its contents have the ability to send him back in time from 1996 to 1941 England.
19) Glamour girls
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since she was 10 years old, Rosalie Wright's eyes have been on the skies. But at the age of 18, on the verge of earning her pilot's license, the English farmer's daughter watches her dreams of becoming an aviatrix fly away without her. Britain's entry into World War II brings civilian aviation to a standstill. Then, Rosalie's father dies, leaving her, her mother, and her brothers to run the farm.Everything changes when she learns that the Air...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion--the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...