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  • The War That Saved My LifeQuick View
    By: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

    The War That Saved My Life

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    * Newbery Honor Book
    * #1 New York Times Bestseller
    * Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award
    * Forbes 25 Top Historical Fiction Books Of All Time selection
    * Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Books    … [more below]

    • Author: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: January 08 2015
    • ISBN10: 0803740816
    • Language: English
  • Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)Quick View
    By: Cycon, Dean

    Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)

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    For nine months in Auschwitz, eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity by playing piano on imaginary keyboards. After liberation, Eva and the five remaining Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, journey home,

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    • Author: Cycon, Dean
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 378
    • Publish Date: June 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798888240779
    • Language: English
  • The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945Quick View
    By: Atkinson, Rick

    The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II

    It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled

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    • Series: Liberation Trilogy #3
    • Author: Atkinson, Rick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 928
    • Publish Date: May 13 2014
    • ISBN10: 1250037816
    • Language: English
  • Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (National Book Award Finalist)Quick View
    By: Sheinkin, Steve

    Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (National Book Award Finalist)

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    Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War is New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin’s award-winning nonfiction account of an ordinary man who wielded the most

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    • Author: Sheinkin, Steve
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: September 24 2019
    • ISBN10: 125018083X
    • Language: English
  • The Tobacco Wives Out of stock Quick View
    By: Myers, Adele

    The Tobacco Wives

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    Most anticipated by USA Today, W Magazine, New York Post, Parade, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Reader’s Digest, and PopSugar and named one of the best historical fiction books of the year by Cosmopolitan!

    “A bea

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    • Author: Myers, Adele
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: March 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063082934
    • Language: English
  • Congo: The Epic History of a PeopleQuick View
    By: Van Reybrouck, David

    Congo: The Epic History of a People

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    From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu’s brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo:

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    • Author: Van Reybrouck, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 656
    • Publish Date: February 17 2015
    • ISBN10: 0062200127
    • Language: English
  • The Ship of BridesQuick View
    By: Moyes, Jojo

    The Ship of Brides

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and Someone Else’s Shoes, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures.

    194

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    • Author: Moyes, Jojo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: October 28 2014
    • ISBN10: 0143126474
    • Language: English
  • OnceQuick View
    By: Gleitzman, Morris

    Once

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    Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn’t know anything about the war, and thinks he’s only in the orphanage while hi

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    • Series: Once #1
    • Author: Gleitzman, Morris
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: March 19 2013
    • ISBN10: 0312653042
    • Language: English
  • The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To FreedomQuick View
    By: Rawicz, Slavomir

    The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom

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    The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.

    • Author: Rawicz, Slavomir
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 149302261X
    • Language: English
  • Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy Out of stock Quick View
    By: Lewis, Damien

    Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

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    The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022
    Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022
    Booklist, Best Books of 2022

    Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous en

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    • Author: Lewis, Damien
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: July 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 154170066X
    • Language: English
  • And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War IIQuick View
    By: Lusseyran, Jacques

    And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II

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    The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See

    An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century,

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    • Author: Lusseyran, Jacques
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: March 18 2014
    • ISBN10: 1608682692
    • Language: English
  • The B-17 Tomahawk Warrior: A WWII Final HonorQuick View
    By: Huntley, David E.

    The B-17 Tomahawk Warrior: A WWII Final Honor

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    The Tomahawk Warriors, a crew of nine who perished in a 1944 B-17 Flying Fortress crash in England, was a mystery of WWII until explained in this book. It would have lain in partial obscurity if it we

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    • Author: Huntley, David E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 422
    • Publish Date: October 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 1734689919
    • Language: English
  • The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World WarQuick View
    By: Kinzer, Stephen

    The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

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    A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today’s world

    During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two imm

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    • Author: Kinzer, Stephen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: October 07 2014
    • ISBN10: 1250053129
    • Language: English
  • Do TellQuick View
    By: Lynch, Lindsay

    Do Tell

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    “There is little more alluring than the promise of secrets, and Do Tell is full of them–glamorous, tawdry, and human. Lindsay Lynch has created a rich portrait of the lives of early Hollywood’s beaut… [more below]

    • Author: Lynch, Lindsay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: August 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593744241
    • Language: English
  • El Hombre En Busca Del SentidoQuick View
    By: Frankl, Viktor E.

    El Hombre En Busca Del Sentido

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    El Doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de multiples padecimientos: Por que no se suicida usted? Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientacion par

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    • Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 132
    • Publish Date: December 11 2017
    • ISBN10: 168411425X
    • Language: Spanish
  • The Shadow KingQuick View
    By: Mengiste, Maaza

    The Shadow King

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    Set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical reco

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    • Author: Mengiste, Maaza
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: September 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 0393358518
    • Language: English
  • The NotebookQuick View
    By: Sparks, Nicholas

    The Notebook

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    Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart — coming to Broadway as a musical in Februa… [more below]

    • Author: Sparks, Nicholas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: December 01 1999
    • ISBN10: 0446676098
    • Language: English
  • Making Call of Duty: Modern WarfareQuick View
    By: McVittie, Andy

    Making Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

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    Includes a code for a bonus in-game Operator skin for Call of Duty(R) Modern Warfare(R) “

    The global balance of power is teetering on the brink of collapse. A diverse cast of international special forc

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    • Author: McVittie, Andy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 12 2019
    • ISBN10: 1950366022
    • Language: English
  • The Girl Behind the WallQuick View
    By: Robotham, Mandy

    The Girl Behind the Wall

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    “A poignant, tender story of families and sisters divided by the cruelty of political chance-my heart ached for them on every page. Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network

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    • Author: Robotham, Mandy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: September 07 2021
    • ISBN10: 0008462917
    • Language: English
  • The Upstairs RoomQuick View
    By: Reiss, Johanna

    The Upstairs Room

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    Newbery Honor Book – ALA Notable Book – An SLJ Best Book – A Jane Addams Award Honor Book – Winner of the Jewish Book Council Children’s Book Award

    A classic WWII survivor story based on award-winning

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    • Author: Reiss, Johanna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: April 02 2019
    • ISBN10: 0062849808
    • Language: English
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