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By Maurice Chalayer. 2022
Joseph passe une enfance heureuse entouré d'une famille aimante même si son père, Marius, et Rose, sa grand-mère, se déchirent…
au sujet de la politique. L'enfant n'a qu'une passion, la course, et rêve de devenir champion olympique. Avec ses deux amis, Rachel, la fille du maire, et Adrien, le fils du boucher, il s'entraîne pendant des heures. Mais la guerre est déclarée, bouleversant son destin.By Natasha Lester. 2023
A New York Times bestselling author delivers a lavish, unforgettable story of an orphan turned WWII spy turned fashion icon…
in Paris. Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills—persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure—catch the attention of the U.S. government and she finds herself with an even bigger assignment: sent to Switzerland as a spy. Soon Alix is on the precipice of something big, very big. But how far can she trust her German informant...? After an Allied victory that didn't come nearly soon enough, Alix moves to Paris, ready to immerse herself in a new position as director of publicity for the yet-to-be-launched House of Dior. In the glamorous halls of the French fashion house, she can nearly forget everything she lost and the dangerous secret she carries. But when a figure from the war reappears and threatens to destroy her future, Alix realizes that only she can right the wrongs of the past ...and finally find justiceBy Pam Jenoff. 2023
"A heart-wrenching exploration of the decisions women must make when their loyalties are put to the test in the most…
unimaginable of circumstances." –Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris 1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network led by a mysterious woman named Micheline and her enigmatic brother Matteo. But when a grave mistake causes Lily's family to be arrested and slated for deportation to Auschwitz, Hannah finds herself torn between her loyalties. How much is Hannah willing to sacrifice to save the people she loves? Inspired by incredible true stories of courage and sacrifice, Code Name Sapphire is a powerful novel about love, family and the unshakable resilience of women in even the hardest of timesBy Sherry Jones. 2018
In the 1920s, an African American like Josephine Baker could find more freedom in France than in the United States.…
In Paris she could be an actress, singer, dancer, Civil Rights activist, member of the French Resistance during WWII, and a woman dedicated to erasing prejudice and creating a more equitable world. Adult. UnratedBy David Black. 2019
Harry Gilmour is captain of the submarine HMS Scourge, patrolling the Mediterranean during world war two. With the shadow of…
his former commander Bonalleck and self-doubt chipping at his confidence, Harry fights his own internal battle to maintain effective command of his boat and crew. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Violence and some strong languageBy Robert Stone. 1987
During the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist thinks he'll find action and profit by getting involved…
in a big-time drug deal. A fightening, intense novel that captures the underground mood of America in the 1970'sBy Danielle Steel. 2011
"In 1915 Beata Wittgenstein, eldest daughter of an affluent German Jewish family, runs off to Switzerland to marry Antoine de…
Vallerand, a young French Catholic officer. But her newfound happiness and the future of her children are threatened by war." -- Provided by NLSBy Suzanne Kelman. 2021
"1937, Europe and America. Based on a true story, this powerful novel about wartime courage and extraordinary friendship, tells how…
two women changed the fate of the Second World War and the course of history. When an impossibly shy young woman named Judy Morgan finishes her studies in Physics at Cambridge University, it is with dreams of changing the world for the better. Meanwhile, a beautiful, young Jewish woman decides to flee her beloved Austria, changing her name to Hedy Lamarr, and risking everything to get to America, as far away from the Nazi threat as possible. A powerful friendship is formed when the two women meet in pre-war London-with Judy's passion for science a perfect match for Hedy's brilliant talent for invention. So when the world is gripped by a war that nobody could have imagined in their worst nightmares, both Hedy and Judy know they must act now. As their lives repeatedly collide, in Cambridge, California, Pearl Harbor and beyond-throwing both their lives into danger and tragedy-Judy and Hedy both find themselves seeking ways to end the war. But neither of them will know that one of them is on a path of tragedy. A path that could change the outcome of the war, but also threaten their friendship forever..." -- Provided by publisherBy Charles Sealsfield. 1852
Originally published in German in 1841, this novel, in part about Texas life in the 1830's, became a best-seller. It…
paints Texans as they have ever since liked to see themselves: bigger than life, better than most other people, mavericks, uncompromising about their freedom and dignity, sometimes cheats and tricksters, and courageous if not downright foolhardy. AdultBy Ted Dekker. 2016
"Maviah, a slave in Arabia, meets the prophet Yeshua and takes his teachings to heart. She gathers a large following…
of fellow outcasts and travels around Arabia, spreading what she learned from Yeshua. When what she has built is threatened, she goes to find him." -- Provided by NLSBy Ted Dekker. 2015
"Maviah, daughter of a Bedouin sheik, is sent home from Egypt in disgrace when she becomes pregnant. After raiders kill…
her son and capture her father, she travels to seek an audience with King Herod. On her travels, she meets a man called Yeshua." -- Provided by NLSBy Marjolijn Hof. 2008
"Le père de Lili est médecin pour une O.N.G et part très souvent dans des pays en guerre. Lili vit…
très mal ses absences et s'inquiète des dangers qu'il court. Pour conjurer le mauvais sort et calmer ses angoisses, elle décide de s'en remettre aux probabilités : elle aura moins de chances de perdre son père si elle connaît d'autres deuils autour d'elle. Donc, elle tente de faire mourir sa souris, puis son chien. Mais son père est déclaré disparu, et Lili se sent de plus en plus mal." -- 4e de couvBy Kathleen Spivack. 2016
Life is a test of courage and silence, especially for refugees from Hitler's Europe. For Anna and her cousin, Herbert,…
New York gives opportunity, but not safety from the memories of the life they had before. Adult. UnratedBy Steve Thayer. 2003
Wrongfully labeled a chief suspect after a shooting by a long-range sniper, deputy sheriff and former wartime army ranger P.A.…
Pennington realizes an old nemesis, a Nazi colonel, has returned. Adult. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. ViolenceBy Homero Aridjis. 2013
"The narrative takes place in Smyrna, the birthplace of Nicias, a former Greek army captain, where he returns after a…
long period of combat. The sadness in the air is the product of the inevitable Greek defeat and the constant memories from before the war. However, even under the constant threat of the Turks, Nicias undertakes the search for love, embodied in the figure of Eurydice, the beloved young woman he abandoned when he enlisted in the army. It is this quest that restores harmony to the spirit and body of Nicias. The reader of Smyrna in Flames will discover that the brutal and bloodthirsty events typical of a wartime conflict are masterfully cushioned by Aridjis' poetic language." -- Translation provided by NLSBy Julie Coulter Bellon. 2017
The day Julian buys an engagement ring for Zaya, terrorist Nazer al-Raimi abducts her. It takes nearly six months to…
find her, but Zaya has suffered during captivity. Though she's grateful to Julian for breaking her out, she wants nothing to do with him. Before he can show her how much he still loves her, Nazer finds them and vows revenge. Can Julian keep Zaya safe and still stop Nazer once and for all? LDS fiction. AdultBy Tomiko Inui. 1996
- Youri ne va pas nous oublier ? Au Japon, peut avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la famille Moriyama abrite…
quatre petits hommes anglais dans sa bibliothèque, les Milky. Pour se nourrir, ils utilisent le lait que leur verse chaque jour la petite Youri dans un mystérieux verre bleu. Mais la guerre éclate ! Le lait est rationné et l'inquiétude gagne les Milky.By Nancy Price Graff. 2001
By Patricio Pron. 2014
"A stupid war, an invisible enemy, confused governors, a battlefield, the Falkland Islands, and a narrator that unveils the truths…
and lies behind all this with freshness and irony. «Do not judge the war in terms of beauty. In fact, it is like people: it has to be beautiful inside, because it is too ugly on the outside». A bomb remains in mid air and resists falling. Exhausted and hungry soldiers look up and they wonder if all wars are like that. They do not know who the enemy is or where he is, but they keep walking in dreams, like sleepwalkers, fighting for a piece of land that does not belong to anyone, defending a country that floats on a subsoil of misery and corruption. There is nothing normal or predictable in |We Walk in Dreams|, the edited and extended version of the novel where Patricio Pron told «not what really happened or could have happened, but what happened indeed, although only in the childish imagination» of the author, who was six years old when the war between Argentina and Great Britain started. |We Walk in Dreams| talks about that confrontation, but the true theme of this comic novel is what happens when people kill on behalf of nationalism, what happens when common sense leaves room for cowardice and stupidity disguised as patriotism. Pron's view is a satire of all wars, a story simultaneously inhabited by the spirits of Samuel Beckett, César Aira, Martin Amis and Fogwill that only take the reader as prisoner." -- Provided by publisherBy Saša Stanišić. 2021
In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later,…
the boy's father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Translated from the 2019 German edition. Strong language and some violence. 2021