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• The Baker's Secret

  Kiernan, Stephen P.

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  After her kind mentor is arrested because of his Jewish heritage, a young baker's apprentice in Normandy engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beneath a Scarlet Sky

  a Novel

  Sullivan, Mark T.

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  In 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps and falls for a beautiful widow, he also becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's most powerful commanders.

• Crooked Heart

  Evans, Lissa

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  A precocious orphan evacuee and a debt-ridden widow con artist forge an unlikely alliance to take advantage of unscrupulous money-making opportunities in the bombed suburbs of World War II England.

• Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

  Cleave, Chris

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  Shocking her family by volunteering for the war effort in 1939 London, socialite Mary teaches evacuated and marginalized children and bonds with her employer, Tom, before their romance is challenged by a painful love triangle and the grueling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Forest of Vanishing Stars

  a Novel

  Harmel, Kristin

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  An evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything.

• The Nightingale

  Hannah, Kristin

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  A tale of two sisters during World War II. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also their strength and their individual senses of right and wrong.

• The Vanishing Sky

  a Novel

  Binder, L. Annette, 1967-

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  A World War II novel as seen through a German lens, a story of the irreparable damage of war on the home front, and one family's participation-involuntary, unseen, or direct-in a dangerous regime.

• The Women in the Castle

  Shattuck, Jessica

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  A dramatic yet nuanced portrait of war and its repercussions that explores what it means to survive, love, and, ultimately, to forgive in the wake of unimaginable hardship.