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  • Kvinnene by Kristin Hannah

    Kvinnene by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 87 ratings
    From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation...
  • The Dark of the Moon by Fiona Valpy

    The Dark of the Moon by Fiona Valpy

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Gift. She’s spent a lifetime searching for him. Is this her last chance to find the truth? Philly Delaney risked everything during the war...
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  • The Secret Midwife by Soraya M. Lane

    The Secret Midwife by Soraya M. Lane

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    London, 1995: When on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast runs an appeal for information on the identity of a midwife who saved hundreds of lives, Emilia knows it is time to finally tell her story...
  • The Dance Teacher of Paris by Suzanne Fortin

    The Dance Teacher of Paris by Suzanne Fortin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    'But how will I look after them? Where can I hide them? ' She looked up at me and didn't try to stop the tears from falling. 'I'm begging you. Please, save our children. '. Paris, 1942. As the Germans occupy the city she calls home, Adele Basset is determined to keep her pupils' spirits up. Their dance class offers a moment of solace in the dark days of occupation...
  • A View Across the Rooftops by Suzanne Kelman

    A View Across the Rooftops by Suzanne Kelman

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    An unforgettable story of love, hope and betrayal, and a testament to the courage of humanity in history’s darkest days. As Nazis occupy his beloved city, Professor Josef Held feels helpless. So when he discovers his former pupil Michael Blum is trying to escape the Gestapo, he offers Michael a place to hide in his attic...
  • The Occupation by Deborah Swift

    The Occupation by Deborah Swift

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A page-turning historical saga that will pull at your heartstrings! For fans of Freda Lightfoot, Pam Jenoff, Sebastian Faulks and Kate Atkinson. One woman’s secret war against the Nazis. One man’s war against himself…. 1940, Jersey. When Nazi forces occupy Jersey in the English Channel Islands, Céline Huber, who is married to a German, must decide where her loyalty lies...
    Categorized as:
    military  war  historical  length-medium  audiobook
  • The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester

    The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphan comes an unforgettable historical novel about a secret collection of Dior gowns that ties back to the first female pilots of WWII and a heartbreaking story of love and sacrifice. England, 1939: The Penrose sisters couldn't be more different. Skye is a daring and brash pilot, and Liberty the one to defy her at every turn...
  • The Parisians by Marius Gabriel

    The Parisians by Marius Gabriel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Paris, 1940. The Nazis have occupied the city—and the Ritz. The opulent old hotel, so loved by Parisians, is now full of swaggering officers, their minions and their mistresses. For American Olivia Olsen, working as a chambermaid at the hotel means denying her nationality and living a lie, every day bringing the danger of discovery closer...
  • The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

    The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Kate Furnivall comes a gritty tale of courage, betrayal and love in the most unlikely of places. Germany, 1944. Taken from the camps to serve the Fuhrer himself, Anke Hoff has been assigned as midwife to one of Hitler’s inner circle. If she refuses, her family will die...
  • What Cannot Be Said by C.S. Harris

    What Cannot Be Said by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost...
  • Fire and Fury for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Fire and Fury for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    As war rages, everyone has to do their bit. .. Bristol 1941. As the clouds of war grow bleaker both at home and abroad, the Tobacco Girls are determined to do their bit for King and Country. To that end Maisie Miles and Bridget Milligan become voluntary ambulance drivers...
  • Wedding Bells at Goodwill House by Fenella J Miller

    Wedding Bells at Goodwill House by Fenella J Miller

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    January 1941. As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter, land girl Charlie Somiton is still glad of the warm friendships she has made there. Not just her fellow land girls, Daphne and Sal, but also dashing local G. P. Dr James Willoughby who looked after Charlie when she was injured at work...
    Categorized as:
    war  military  historical  length-medium  audiobook
  • The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards

    The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Inspired by Picasso’s great masterpiece Guernica, New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards returns with a riveting story of love, intrigue, deception and bravery in the face of war…. On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family are caught up in the horror...
  • Patience by Beverley Watts

    Patience by Beverley Watts

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    With her four older sisters now married, it’s Patience Shackleford’s turn to take charge of her younger siblings’ education...
  • People Like Us by Louise Fein

    People Like Us by Louise Fein

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    For fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See, a spellbinding story of impossible love set against the backdrop of the Nazi regime. As the dutiful daughter of a high-ranking Nazi officer, Hetty Heinrich is keen to play her part in the glorious new Thousand Year Reich...
    Categorized as:
    war  military  historical  20th century  audiobook
  • Hope by Beverley Watts

    Hope by Beverley Watts

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    There was no doubt that things had definitely looked better for Gabriel Atwood, one time Viscount Northwood. Mainly because everyone who knew him or of him almost certainly believed him dead - the bastard who’d betrayed him had made sure of that...
  • A Gentleman Under the Mistletoe by Grace Burrowes

    A Gentleman Under the Mistletoe by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Lord Julian Caldicott is standing in for his ducal brother as manager of Yuletide merriment at the family seat. Alas for his lordship, nothing is going as planned. Cranky relatives arrive uninvited, family squabbles ensue, and Julian's annual case of the blue devils is worsening by the day. Julian decides to combat the mayhem and melancholia by anonymously spreading good cheer...
  • The Loving Cup by Winston Graham

    The Loving Cup by Winston Graham

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The tenth book in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS. Cornwall 1813. A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods...
  • Petteril's Folly by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Folly by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Time to confront reality – and a worrying mystery. Lord Petteril and his new viscountess return to England to face the consequences of their unequal marriage, only to discover that Petteril’s valet, the enigmatic Stewart, has been arrested for theft...
  • Rosa's Gold by Ray Kingfisher

    Rosa's Gold by Ray Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Nicole Sutton’s world has been turned upside down. Sixteen and suffering the fallout of a devastating family tragedy, she is forced to move away from her London home to the quiet town of Henley—and a new life she never wanted nor expected. In the dusty cellar of her strange new house, Nicole stumbles upon a worn old journal left behind by a previous occupant...
    Categorized as:
    war  mystery  historical  length-medium  audiobook
  • Dragonfly by Leila Meacham

    Dragonfly by Leila Meacham

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Roses comes a gripping new novel about five young spies embedded among the highest Nazi ranks in occupied Paris. At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country...
  • The Girl From the Island by Lorna Cook

    The Girl From the Island by Lorna Cook

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A world at war. One woman will risk everything. Another will uncover her story. 1940: When the island of Guernsey is invaded by the Nazis, two sisters are determined to rebel in any way they can. But when forced to take in a German soldier, they are shocked to find a familiar face on their doorstep – a childhood friend who has now become their enemy...
  • The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul

    The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From Gill Paul, the author of Another Woman’s Husband and The Secret Wife, comes a powerful new chapter in her Romanov saga… a gripping journey through the decades and across the continents, a novel of eternal love, devastating loss, and courage against all odds. Summer 1918: Pretty, vivacious Grand Duchess Maria Romanova faces an uncertain future...
  • Petteril's Wife by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Wife by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Incognito in Portugal…Lord Petteril’s cousin, the newly commissioned Major Bertie Withan, has gone missing somewhere between landing in Lisbon and joining his regiment on the front line of the Peninsular War...
  • Aurora by D.G. Rampton

    Aurora by D.G. Rampton

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    70,000+ readers have already discovered the Regency Goddesses Series. The books, which can be read in any order, are regularly in the U. S. top 20 for Historical Romance and Humor & Satire. ♥ an opposites-attract romance. ♥ a formidable hero. ♥ an irrepressible heroine. ♥ a menagerie of lovable characters...
  • Marriage and Mayhem for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Marriage and Mayhem for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Discover the brand new instalment in Lizzie Lane's bestselling Tobacco Girls series! War is fleeting, but true love last forever. .. May 1944. Hope and excitement is in the air when news breaks of the allied forces landing in Normandy. D Day has arrived. However, the day-to-day struggles for the Tobacco Girls continue. Carole Thomas wants her old life back...
  • The Lord's Absolutely Perfect Pickpocket by Eva Devon

    The Lord's Absolutely Perfect Pickpocket by Eva Devon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Major Lord Marcus Newfield, Maximus to everyone he knows because of how large he lives, is the eldest son of the Earl of Drexel and Lady Hermia Briarwood. A soldier, daredevil, and lover of a good time, nothing stops Maximus from living fully until a battle gone very wrong leaves him wounded in both body and mind...
    Categorized as:
    regency  military  historical  victorian
  • Petteril's Christmas by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Christmas by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A merry Christmas for the Petterils? Piers wants to make their first Christmas together special, and so it proves to be - just not quite in the way he planned. His eccentric Great Aunt Prudence summons him to London with the news that she is dying and that one of her servants is stealing from her. Only one of these claims turns out to be true, though both require investigating...
  • Faith by Beverley Watts

    Faith by Beverley Watts

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    When Faith Shackleford found herself in the unenviable position of having to accompany her irascible father to convalesce in the genteel seaside town of Torquay, she envisioned three months of wearying monotony...
  • The Riviera House by Natasha Lester

    The Riviera House by Natasha Lester

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Secret weaves a lush and engrossing novel of World War II inspired by a true story and perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Pam Jenoff. Paris, 1939: The Nazis think Éliane can't understand German. They’re wrong. They think she’s merely cataloging art in a Louvre museum and unaware they’re stealing national treasures for their private collections...
  • The Riviera House by Natasha Lester

    The Riviera House by Natasha Lester

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Secret weaves a lush and engrossing novel of World War II inspired by a true story and perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Pam Jenoff. Paris, 1939: The Nazis think Éliane can't understand German. They’re wrong. They think she’s merely cataloging art in a Louvre museum and unaware they’re stealing national treasures for their private collections...
  • Petteril's Corpse by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Corpse by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A murdered stranger in his home wood…. The discovery of a naked corpse upsets the new Viscount Petteril’s return to his ancestral acres. The local magistrate, Robert Lindon, has no idea how to proceed with so heinous a crime...
  • Winter Wishes for the Home Front Nurses by Rachel Brimble

    Winter Wishes for the Home Front Nurses by Rachel Brimble

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The BRAND NEW instalment in Rachel Brimble's emotional, heart-wrenching Home Front Nurses saga series A uplifting story of courage, friendship and love against the odds, perfect for fans of Lizzie Lane, Rosie Clarke, and Call the Midwife. Winter, 1942...
  • Petteril's Ladybird by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Ladybird by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    An earl’s son, shot in the home of his mistress…. Lord Petteril, with his redoubtable assistant April, is called back to London to help prove the innocence of his friend, Percy Austen, who is suspected of murder. Percy was once the lover of the victim’s mistress, and his pistol was found at the scene of the crime...
  • The French House by Helen Fripp

    The French House by Helen Fripp

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The vineyards stretched away in every direction as he plucked a perfect red grape, sparkling with dew. “Marry me,” he’d said. “We’ll run these vineyards together. ” But now he is gone. There is no one to share the taste of the first fruit of the harvest. And her troubles are hers alone…...
    Categorized as:
    war  regency  historical  length-medium  audiobook
  • Murder in St. Giles by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Murder in St. Giles by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    London, 1819: When Brewster, my bodyguard, comes to me about a murder of a pugilist—and what’s more, says his wife has summoned me—I must hasten to St. Giles to find a killer before Brewster is arrested for the crime. This is made difficult because Donata's late husband’s odious cousin has materialized to try to wrest her son into his care...
  • The Thames River Murders by Ashley Gardner

    The Thames River Murders by Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders...
  • A Mystery at Carlton House by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    A Mystery at Carlton House by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    1818: Captain Lacey is drawn into affairs of the highest in the land when his friend Grenville is asked by the Prince Regent to look into odd happenings in his lavish abode of Carlton House. Objects of value have gone missing, paintings and sculpture have been moved, and some of the staff have reported strange sounds and movements in the shadows...
  • The Code Breaker's Secret by Catherine Law

    The Code Breaker's Secret by Catherine Law

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Love and duty, codes and spies. .. Kent, 1939. Soon to marry her childhood sweetheart, Eliza thinks her life is set. But when war breaks out, everything changes and, while helping the soldiers returning from Dunkirk, she bumps into Lewis, an unforgettable stranger from her past...
  • Something Dangerous by Penny Vincenzi

    Something Dangerous by Penny Vincenzi

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928, on their eighteenth birthday, they are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the spectre of Nazi Germany is growing. .. Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways - but it is not just the twins whose lives have been irrevocably changed...
  • The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough

    The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In this great drama, Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times, has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from his commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power...
  • Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den by Chasity Bowlin

    Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Enter the world of the most notorious gambling den in London, where matches are made. .. unusually. Welcome to the world of THE LYON'S DEN: The Black Widow of Whitehall Connected World, where the underground of Regency London thrives. .. and loves...
  • The Custom House Murders by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    The Custom House Murders by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Captain Lacey encounters an old army friend just returned from Antigua, who is being accused of smuggling and possibly murder. Lacey decides to help the man, whom he considers honorable, to clear his name. Meanwhile James Denis has given Lacey a task, to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames...
  • Heaven and Hell for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Heaven and Hell for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ALL NEW from the Tobacco Girls. BRISTOL 1943 and life for the Tobacco Girls isn’t getting any easier. .. Bridget Milligan has donned a uniform and joined the nursing services where she becomes intrigued with the miracles of modern medicine. She’s also torn between family loyalty, her new career and Lyndon O’Neill, the love of her life...
  • A Darkness in Seven Dials by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    A Darkness in Seven Dials by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    March 1820. When James Denis is arrested for murder and lands himself in Newgate, it falls to me to prove his innocence. I have nowhere to start but in a dark street in Seven Dials and the name of the unknown man Denis is supposed to have killed. I soon find myself beleaguered by enemies from Denis’s past, secret societies, and a host of people who want Denis to hang...
  • What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris

    What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Sebastian St. Cyr thought a notorious killer had been brought to justice until a shocking series of gruesome new murders stuns the city in this thrilling historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Speaks for the Damned. It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over and Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together...
  • The Langley Sisters Collection by Wendy Vella

    The Langley Sisters Collection by Wendy Vella

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An Amazon chart-topping series from USA Today bestseller Wendy Vella. Enjoy this collection of unconventional heroines, and dashing heroes who will keep you turning the page right to the end! THE LADY PLAYS HER ACE...
  • Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris

    Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. Cyr’s past combine to put C. S. Harris’s “troubled but compelling antihero” (Booklist) to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling mystery. London, 1813. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St...
  • The German Officer's Girl by Jina Bacarr

    The German Officer's Girl by Jina Bacarr

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This was a version of The Resistance Girl offered to reviewers until changes were made (before publication) to prevent confusion. Two women. One heartbreaking secret. Paris, 1943. Sylvie Martone is the star of French cinema, adored by fans and on the good side of the Nazi officers who swarm the streets of Paris...
  • When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris

    When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Ayleswick-on-Teme, England, 1813. Sebastian has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and to learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body of a lovely widow is found on the banks of the River Teme, a bottle of laudanum at her side, the village’s inexperienced new magistrate turns to St. Cyr for help...
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