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Pub. Date
c2007
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In 1943, nineteen-year-old Jim Yoder serves as a waist gunner aboard a B-24 in the United States Army Air Corps, but through a strange chain of events, is trapped behind enemy lines in Hitler's Europe, alone, on foot, and on the run, and finds himself returning to his family's staunchly pacifist Mennonite roots.
63) The shadow war
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"World War II is raging, and five teens are looking to make a mark. Daniel and Rebeka seek revenge against the Nazis who slaughtered their family; Simone is determined to fight back against the oppressors who ruined her life and corrupted her girlfriend; Phillip aims to prove that he's better than his worst mistakes; and Liam is searching for a way to control the portal to the shadow world he's uncovered, and the monsters that live within it - before...
65) Mudbound
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
66) The mercy room
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Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Recruited by the Gestapo to translate sensitive documents, a German teacher in occupied World War II France takes a daring risk to rescue a Jewish soldier and hide him at his home, along with a cache of banned books, an act that leads to their unlikely friendship.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Diana Gallagher-Cary is at a tipping point. As a Washington, DC, OB/GYN at a prestigious hospital, she uses her career to distract herself from her grief over her granny's death and her breakup from her long-term boyfriend after her free-spirited mother moves in with her. But when she makes a medical decision that disparages the hospital, she is forced to go on a short sabbatical. Never one to wallow, Diana decides to use the break to put order in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series comes a tantalizing standalone novel about a mother and daughter who stumble upon an underground Nazi cell in Los Angeles during the early days of World War II-and find the courage to go undercover. June 1940. France has fallen to the Nazis, Britain is next-but to many Americans, the war is still something happening "over there." Veronica Grace has just graduated from college; she...
69) Australia
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In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
He made his debut in late 1940 in Captain America Comics No. 1, fighting Nazis at every turn. Twenty years after World War II, he was found frozen in ice. Now a man living in the wrong time, he became the leader of the Avengers, and fought some of the Marvel Universe s greatest villains: Red Skull, Baron Zemo, Batroc the Leaper, MODOK and even Caps former sidekick, now known as the Winter Soldier. The Little Book of Captain America is your ultimate...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
In 1969, Israeli intelligence officer Sharon Bloomenthal is recruited by a naval officer to assist with a project. Upon learning that the officer's past is linked to that of her late mother, Sharon agrees
In the early 1940s, as the horrors of the war close in on France, we meet Claudette Pelletier, talented seamstress and lover of romance novels. Born disabled and unable to walk to school, Claudette grew up illiterate until a kind Jewish peddler in...
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
In 1930s Italy a bumbling Jewish waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. But that life is threatened by World War II.
In 1939, Guido, an Italian Jew, falls in love with Dora, who isn't Jewish. He woos her away from the Fascist official she has been dating, and they get married. Their son Giosue grows up among growing...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Summer 1939. The glittering Côte d’Azur is having a particularly brilliant season, as the world’s wealthiest vacationers collide with Hollywood’s illustrious movie stars for the first-ever film festival on the French Riviera. Into this hothouse playground comes an American named Annabel Faucon. Having left a dead-end job and a broken heart back in New York, she’s escaped to a summer stint at the fabulous Grand Hotel, where her uncle is the...
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
"Arthur C. Clarke is one of this century's most visionary and versatile thinkers. The author of more than eighty books of fiction and nonfiction, Clarke writes with a unique combination of scientific erudition, imagination, and insatiable curiosity that has mesmerized and inspired countless numbers of readers. Clarke has collected his nonfiction works into one volume. With new introductions to each decade's body of work, Clarke offers both personal...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Wolverine stars in a story that stretches across the decades! But what crazy vigil could require Logan to do what he does best every ten years beginning in the 1940s? Who is the young woman that he is fated to keep reacquainting himself with? And exactly how deep a connection will they share? Find out as Charles Soule--the writer who killed Wolverine and brought him back from the dead--unveils a new, hidden chapter in Logan's long history! It begins...
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