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Strangers in time
by David Baldacci
"Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of people to have been evacuated to the countryside via "Operation Pied Piper," Molly has been away from her parents--from her home--for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she'd hoped for as she's confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there, only her old nanny, Mrs. Pride. Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his book shop, The Book Keep, where A book a day keeps the bombs away.
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Resist : a story of D-Day
by Alan Gratz
Samira Zidane lives in Nazi-occupied France during World War II where she and her mother crack codes to help sabotage the Nazis' plans, and when her mother is captured, Samira must embark on a daring rescue mission on D-Day.
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Written on the dark
by Guy Gavriel Kay
"Both sweeping and intimate, a majestic novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France. Thierry Villar is a well-known-even notorious- tavern poet, familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be caught up in the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies. But he is indeed drawn into all these things on a savagely cold night in his beloved city of Orane. And so Thierry must use all the intelligence and charm he can muster as political struggles merge with a decades-long war to bring his country to the brink of destruction. As he does, he meets his poetic equal in an aristocratic woman and is drawn to more than one unsettling person with a connection to the world beyond this one. He also crosses paths with an extraordinary young woman driven by voices within to try to heal the ailing king-and help his forces in war. A wide and varied set of people from all walks of life take their places in the rich tapestry of this story.
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Isola
by Allegra Goodman
Orphaned Marguerite, who's based on a real 16th-century French girl, is put under the guardianship of Roberval, a cruel relative who uses her immense wealth for himself. Later, he sets out across the Atlantic for New France, taking teenage Marguerite and his young assistant with him. When the two fall in love, Roberval abandons them on a cold, uninhabited island with few supplies. Read-alike: Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor.
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Ship of Dreams
by Donna Jones Alward
Aboard the Titanic, where opulence knows no bounds, and horizons seem limitless, two women fight for futures they dream of, fraught with secrets that could change everything. Hannah Martin is clinging to the hope that six days on the grand ship will heal the wounds in her marriage to Charles. As the unsinkable ship strikes the iceberg, amidst the chaos and icy waters, lives are changed forever.
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Damned
by Genevieve Cogman
1794, Eleanor, former English maid, is a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, and now a promising mage. With a vampire plot thwarted in Paris, the League's next daring rescue is that of the Pimpernels beloved wife lady Marguerite, imprisoned in her London townhouse on unjust charges of treason and espionage.
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Beasts of Carnaval
by Rosália Rodrigo
A Puerto Rico-inspired fantasy follows a woman recently freed from slavery as she searches for her missing brother at the Carnaval of Beasts and learns why nobody who enters Carnaval ever leaves. A first novel.
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Daikon : a novel
by Samuel Jay Hawley
In war-ravaged 1945 Tokyo, physicist Keizo Kan is forced to study a mysterious American uranium bomb in exchange for his imprisoned wife's freedom, facing harrowing moral choices as he's drawn into a desperate race to alter the course of history. Maps.
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