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Munich Signature by Bodie Thoene
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsDISCOVER THE TRUTH THROUGH FICTION Who will dare to take a stand? In May 1938 Hitler’s forces continue to swallow pieces of Europe, forcing Jews to flee from his ever-tightening net... -
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Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 02 by Rei Tōma
Princess Nakaba of Senan and Prince Caesar of Belquat only married each other for the sake of peace between their two warring countries, but things take a surprising turn when Caesar finds himself falling for his strange wife! Caesar tries to get Nakaba to return his feelings, but she maintains that he is her enemy and that she hates him...Categorized as:
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![The Girl from Snowy River by Jackie French]()
The Girl from Snowy River by Jackie French
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe year is 1919. Thirty years have passed since the man from Snowy River made his famous ride. But World War I still casts its shadow across a valley in the heart of Australia, particularly for orphaned sixteen-year-old Flinty McAlpine, who lost a brother when the Snowy River men marched away to war... -
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Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit by Colby Cedar Smith
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThis book won the 2023 Michigan Notable Books Award!This enchanting novel in verse captures one young woman’s struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit.Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith’s paternal grandmother... -
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![The FitzOsbornes at War by Michelle Cooper]()
The FitzOsbornes at War by Michelle Cooper
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsMichelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history and romance with The FitzOsbornes at War. Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out in England and around the world, nowhere is safe. Sophie fills her journal with tales of a life during wartime. Blackouts and the Blitz... -
![Playing with Matches by Lee Strauss, Elle Strauss]()
Playing with Matches by Lee Strauss, Elle Strauss
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsEmil Radle is a dedicated member of Hitler Youth. He's loyal to the Fuehrer before family, a champion for the cause and a fan of the famous Luftwaffe. When his friends Moritz and Johann discover a shortwave radio, everything changes. Now they listen to BBC broadcasts of news reports that tell both sides. Now they know the truth... -
![Annie, Between the States by L.M. Elliott]()
Annie, Between the States by L.M. Elliott
Annie Sinclair's Virginia home is in the battle path of the Civil War. Her brothers, Laurence and Jamie, fight to defend the South, while Annie and her mother tend to wounded soldiers. When she develops a romantic connection with a Union Army lieutenant, Annie's view of the war broadens. Then an accusation calls her loyalty into question... -
![The Love That I Have by James Moloney]()
The Love That I Have by James Moloney
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor fans of The Book Thief, a powerful and heartbreaking story set during WW2 that stays with you long after the final page is read.Margot Baumann has left school to take up her sister's job in the mailroom of a large prison. But this is Germany in 1944, and the prison is Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin.Margot is shielded from the camp's brutality as she has no contact with prisoners... -
![Thief of Glory: A Novel by Sigmund Brouwer]()
Thief of Glory: A Novel by Sigmund Brouwer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 13 ratings“Brouwer makes you live it....sharing each moment of an exotic and terrifying time and place in a gripping, personal way.” —Bodie and Brock Thoene, authors of Take this Cup A boy coming of age in a time of war… the love that inspires him to survive... -
![Cross My Heart: And Hope to Live by Carmen Reid]()
Cross My Heart: And Hope to Live by Carmen Reid
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA gripping story of espionage and war-time resistance from bestselling author, Carmen Reid.Brussels, 1940. Fifteen-year-old Nicole watches as the Nazis invade Belgium. Determined not to stand by as her country is brought to its knees, Nicole vows to fight back and joins the Belgian Resistance... -
![Two Necklaces by Paulette Mahurin]()
Two Necklaces by Paulette Mahurin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the beginning of 1933 after Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany, fourteen-year-old Christa Becker of Ravensburg, Germany, attends meetings of the League of German Girls, an organization established to create dedicated wives whose role was to give birth to superior Aryan children... -
![The FitzOsbornes in Exile by Michelle Cooper]()
The FitzOsbornes in Exile by Michelle Cooper
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsForced to leave their island kingdom, Sophie FitzOsborne and her eccentric family take shelter in England... -
![Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford]()
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 82 ratingsIn 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II... -
![Captain Tempesta by Emilio Salgari]()
Captain Tempesta by Emilio Salgari
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA female warrior in disguise. A lover to be rescued. A city under siege.Cyprus, 1571. An island at war. The powerful Ottoman army has taken every city save one, Famagusta, a Venetian port and stronghold. Besieged by a force of 80,000 men, the city has valiantly fought back with its small force of warriors and mercenaries... -
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![Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown]()
Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsShe suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilderness has now become her home. She can interpret the cries of birds. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She has learned to live in a new, free way.... Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676... -
![Remembrance by Theresa Breslin]()
Remembrance by Theresa Breslin
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsScotland, 1915. A group of teenagers from two families meet for a picnic, but the war across the Channel is soon to tear them away from such youthful pleasures. All too soon, the horror of what is to become known as The Great War engulfs them, their friends and the whole village... -
![Interrupted: A Life Beyond Words by Rachel Coker]()
Interrupted: A Life Beyond Words by Rachel Coker
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsCan love really heal all things? If Sam Carroll hadn t shown up, she might have been able to get to her mother in time. Instead, Allie Everly finds herself at a funeral, mourning the loss of her beloved mother. She is dealt another blow when, a few hours later, she is sent from Tennessee to Maine to become the daughter of Miss Beatrice Lovell, a prim woman with a faith Allie cannot accept... -
![All The Light There Was by Nancy Kricorian]()
All The Light There Was by Nancy Kricorian
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsAll the Light There Was is the story of an Armenian family’s struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris in the 1940s—a lyrical, finely wrought tale of loyalty, love, and the many faces of resistance... -
![The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi]()
The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 30 ratings“Carefully researched and lovingly written, Rinaldi’s latest presents a girl indentured to John and Abigail Adams during the tense period surrounding the 1770 Massacre. . . . Fortuitously timed, a novel that illuminates a moment from our past that has strong parallels to recent events. Bibliography... -
![The Traitor's Smile by Patricia Elliott]()
The Traitor's Smile by Patricia Elliott
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsEugenie de Boncoeur has fled the violence of the French Revolution to find sanctuary in England at the home of her cousin, Hetta. At first, the two girls find themselves at loggerheads: Hetta can't understand Eugenie's preoccupation with clothes and appearance, and scorns her politics... -
![Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa M. Klein]()
Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa M. Klein
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsLizzie and Rosanna are cousins. But when the Civil War breaks out, fifteen-year-old Lizzie finds herself committed to the cause of the Union, while Rosanna is swept up in the passions of the old south—and in her love for a young Confederate officer... -
![Annexed by Sharon Dogar]()
Annexed by Sharon Dogar
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsEveryone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex – but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter’s point of view... -
![The Blythes Are Quoted by L.M. Montgomery]()
The Blythes Are Quoted by L.M. Montgomery
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe Blythes Are Quoted is the last work of fiction by the internationally celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables. Intended by L.M. Montgomery to be the ninth volume in her bestselling series featuring her beloved heroine Anne – and delivered to her publisher on the very day she died – it has never before been published in its entirety... -
![The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa]()
The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAs the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of age. Drawn into a complex triangle with two boys, she distracts herself from the onslaught of adulthood by playing the game of go with strangers in a public square--and yet the force of desire, like the occupation, proves inevitable... -
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![Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd]()
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsDIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she’s been murdered... -
![The Game of Hope by Sandra Gulland]()
The Game of Hope by Sandra Gulland
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFor Napoleon's stepdaughter, nothing is simple -- especially love.Paris, 1798. Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls, most of whom suffered tragic losses during the tumultuous days of the French Revolution. She loves to play and compose music, read and paint, and daydream about Christophe, her brother's dashing fellow officer... -
![Queen of Hearts by Martha Brooks]()
Queen of Hearts by Martha Brooks
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsComing of age in a hospital bed—a deeply affecting portrait of a teen's journey through a TB sanatorium in the 1940s. On the prairies of Canada during World War II, a girl and her two young siblings begin a war of their own. Stricken with tuberculosis, they are admitted to a nearby sanatorium. Teenager Marie Claire is headstrong, angry, and full of stubborn pride... -
![Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang]()
Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAthletic and strong willed, Princess Emmajin's determined to do what no woman has done before: become a warrior in the army of her grandfather, the Great Khan Khubilai. In the Mongol world the only way to achieve respect is to show bravery and win glory on the battlefield. The last thing she wants is the distraction of the foreigner Marco Polo, who challenges her beliefs in the gardens of Xanadu... -
![Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher]()
Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith her mother ill, it’s up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. But in the 1940s, the only opportunities open to a Polish-American girl from Chicago’s poor Yards is a job in one of the meat packing plants... -
![Hindenburg,1937 by Cameron Dokey]()
Hindenburg,1937 by Cameron Dokey
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 10 ratings""Anna, promise me..."" Her grandfather never finished his last wish as he died clutching their tickets for a trans-Atlantic voyage of the Hindenburg. But Anna Becker is certain he would want her to take the tickets and leave Germany before her ruthless brother could marry her off to advance his own Nazi career... -
![The German Boy by Patricia Wastvedt]()
The German Boy by Patricia Wastvedt
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA moving, inter-war family saga The German Boy from Patricia Wastvedt, the Orange Prize Longlisted author of The River. In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him... -
![Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet]()
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsCarnegie Medalist Mal Peet ignites an epic tale of young love against the dramatic backdrop of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Can love survive a lifetime? When working-class Clem Ackroyd falls for Frankie Mortimer, the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy local landowner, he has no hope that it can... -
![The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa]()
The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAs the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of age. Drawn into a complex triangle with two boys, she distracts herself from the onslaught of adulthood by playing the game of go with strangers in a public square—and yet the force of desire, like the occupation, proves inevitable... -
![Postcards from No Man's Land (The Dance Sequence) by Aidan Chambers, Eric Dinyer]()
Postcards from No Man's Land (The Dance Sequence) by Aidan Chambers, Eric Dinyer
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died during World War II. He expects to go, set flowers on his grandfather's tombstone, and explore the city. But nothing goes as planned. Jacob isn't prepared for love--or to face questions about his sexuality... -
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