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War stories
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Val Eliot, a young woman working on an English farm during the war, meets Mike, a U.S. Air Force pilot…
stationed nearby. When Val rescues a Border Collie named Peter Woodhouse, who is being mistreated by his owner, she realizes the dog would actually be safer with Mike. And so Peter Woodhouse finds a new home on the air force base, and Val finds herself falling in love. Peter Woodhouse becomes Dog First Class, a canine mascot on the base who boldly accompanies the officers on their missions, and Val becomes Mike's fiancée. But then a disaster jeopardizes the future of them all, and Peter Woodhouse brings Ubi, a German corporal, into their orbit, sparking a friendship that comes with great risk but carries with it the richest of rewards. 2018.
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Historical fiction, Historical romance, War stories
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Victorian romance set in England in 1854. Treated as a poor relation rather than as an adopted daughter, Tabbie accidentally…
finds out about her true parents when she meets a wounded soldier while a nurse in the Crimean war. 1975, c1973.
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Modern classic fictionDrama
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Drama written in 1945 about a southern family with pretensions to gentility. Centres around the crippled daughter, Laura, who lives…
in a dream world so full of illusions that she becomes like the pieces in her own glass collection - too fragile to move from the shelf. 1972, c1945.
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War stories
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France, 1916. Sophie Lefèvre treasures the portrait her husband painted of her before going off to war. So does the…
German commander who takes over Sophie’s hotel. Ninety years later the painting hangs in the home of London widow Liv Halston - and Sophie’s descendants want it back. 2012.
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War stories
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Four women attempt to smuggle a fortune in jewels out of the Warsaw ghetto to Switzerland. Their eventual goal is…
to aid Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. This saga spans 40 years. 1986.
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War stories
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A tale of war and courage, set in World War II Malta, and the pivotal role played in the islands'…
defence by the small motor gunboats known as "The Glory Boys". Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2006.
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General fiction, Historical fiction, Romance, War stories
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Based on the savage struggle in east Africa during World War I, and the real-life renegade German army commander Paul…
von Lettow. Stevenson's novel traces the circumstances that combined to create an explosive situation in the African continent. c1980.
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War stories
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In the final months of World War II in Europe Private Will Hope, an eighteen-year-old draftee, is rushed into battle…
as a replacement. Beginning in a gun crew, he is later absorbed into a mine platoon that doubles as a rifle platoon. From France to Austria, Hope learns how to be a combat soldier and, more importantly, how to be a survivor. Realistic battle scenes. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1985.
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Humourous fiction, Short stories, War stories
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A funny love-hate view of life in a Highland Regiment at the end of World War II, narrated by a lieutenant with a genius for stumbling into trouble. 1986, c1970.
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Canadian fiction, Family stories, Historical fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, Sports fiction, War stories
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In 2003, a mild-mannered historian named Moses Lapinsky begins to write a biography of his father, a famous Jewish-Canadian boxer…
named Sonny. His research takes him from the 1930's to the 1950's, as he describes the fortunes of the Lapinsky family. In particular, it was the events of August 1933, at the riot at Christie Pits Park, which changed the lives of all four Lapinsky brothers forever. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2003.
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Modern classic fiction, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Romance
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John Amherst, clever, idealistic and poor, is assistant manager of a cotton mill and has the makings of a working-class…
leader. He meets a young nurse, Justine, a woman who shares his aims and dreams. But Amherst is fatally distracted when he encounters a widow of great wealth: Bessy is charming and beautiful - and the new owner of the mill. 1984.
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Historical fiction, Spy stories, Romance, War stories
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In Paris, on a winter night in 1938, a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel is not romantic tragedy -…
it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine emigre newspaper. In the desperate politics of a Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn - worth surveillance, or blackmail, or murder. 2006.
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War stories
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An Alabama family, headed by slaveowner and cotton farmer Jimmie Vaiden, finds their southern way of life profoundly affected by…
the Civil War and its aftermath. Strong language. Prequel to "The store" . 1931.
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Modern classic fiction, Family stories
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In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins…
of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. 2001.
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Modern classic fiction, Family stories
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In the second part of the trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to…
divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions. Set in the years following the First World War, the story moves to Soames Forsyte's daughter Fleur. She is now married to Michael Mont, but when her old love Jon returns after seven years, desire is rekindled and loyalties begin to divide. Still insulated from reality by their wealth and class, the Forsytes try to resist but cannot ignore the threat of change and 'the stealthy march of passion'. 2001.
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Modern classic fiction, Family stories
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The Forsyte Saga traces the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional…
disaster. This first volume begins as the nineteenth century is drawing to a close, and the upper middle classes, with their property and propriety, are becoming a dying section of society. The Forsytes are blind to this fact, clinging to their conventions and 'brilliant respectability'. As dignified Soames Forsyte struggles to uphold the old moral code in the face of the social revolution resulting from the Great War, his wife Irene's extraordinary beauty causes even more disruption. The bitter feud between them will come to split the Forsyte family for two generations. 2001, c1921.
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Romance, War stories
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Two sisters, Thea and Dulcie, each find new expression in their lives with the coming of World War II and…
the social change that it brings. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1980.
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Fantasy, General fiction, War stories
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Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through…
her sister-like relationship with Io, and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2005.
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Mysteries and crime stories, War stories
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In deep retirement in the English country-side, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more…
concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case -- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot -- beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth? 2004.
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Canadian fiction, General fiction, War stories
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Gerald Woodlore wakes one morning to find that he has reached the limits of what he can control. His company…
is in trouble, his wife Vicki is bending under the image of perfect happiness she constructs, and his son, Kyle, who quit school to volunteer with the military's civilian support staff in Afghanistan, has returned in the wake of a mysterious and traumatic event. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.