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-- Twenty-two Britannia Roadc2011., Adult, Pamela Dorman Books/Viking Call No: Fic Hod Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Leaving Poland for England at the end of World War II, Silvana is accompanied by eight-year-old, near-feral Aurek, with whom she shares traumatic wartime memories that set them apart from her husband, who has remade himself as an Englishman to forget the past."--NoveList.
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By Lyons, Annie2023., William Morrow Call No: Fic Lyo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named Hedy. Willful and fearless, Hedy reminds Gertie of herself at the same age, and shows her that she can't give up just yet. With the terrible threat of war on the horizon, the world needs people like Gertie Bingham and her bookshop. When the Blitz begins and bombs whistle overhead, Gertie and Hedy come up with the idea to start an air raid book club. Together with neighbors and bookstore customers, they hold lively discussions of everything from Winnie the Pooh to Wuthering Heights. After all, a good book can do wonders to bolster people's spirits, even in the most trying times. But even the best book can only provide a temporary escape, and as the tragic reality of the war hits home, the book club faces unimaginable losses. They will need all the strength of their stories and the bonds they've formed to see them through to brighter days.
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c2012., Adult, HarperCollins Canada Call No: Fic Fun Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Based on a true story, Anna Funder's novel brings to light new - and very early - heroes of the resistance. The story of two Jewish Germans -- Hans and Ruth Wesemann -- who resisted Hitler in the 1930s - this is their heartbreaking story - a very special novel with an uncommon depth of humanity and wisdom, a searing and intimate portrait of courage and its price, of desire and ambition, and of the devastating consequences when they are thwarted.
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2010., Adult, Spectra Ballantine Books Call No: Fic Wil Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, and Polly find themselves in World War II, facing air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control.
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2021., Graydon House Call No: Fic Gab Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Desperate for money, struggling young author Nancy Mitford takes a job managing the Heywood Hill bookshop, where she meets a mysterious French officer who has a compelling story to tell.
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2017., Adult, Crown Call No: Fic Rya Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "'Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!' As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir in the absence of men and instead 'carry on singing.' Resurrecting themselves as 'The Chilbury Ladies' Choir,' the women of this small village soon use their joint song to lift up themselves, and the community, as the war tears through their lives. Told through letters and journals, THE CHILBURY LADIES' CHOIR moves seamlessly from budding romances to village intrigues to heartbreaking matters of life and death. As we come to know the struggles of the charismatic members of this unforgettable outfit--a timid widow worried over her son at the front; the town beauty drawn to a rakish artist; her younger sister nursing an impossible crush and dabbling in politics she doesn't understnd, a young Jewish refugee hiding secrets about her family, and a conniving midwife plotting to outrun her seedy past--we come to see how the strength each finds in the choir's collective voice reverberates in her individual life. In turns funny, charming and heart-wrenching, this lovingly executed ensemble novel will charm and inspire, illuminating the true spirit of the women on the homefront, in a village of indomitable spirit, at the dawn of a most terrible conflict."--From publisher.
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-- Blackout.By Powell, Michael, 1905-1990 Corfield, John, 1893-1953 Gillett, Roland Pressburger, Emeric, 1902-1988 Williams, Brock Young, Freddie Seabourne, John Addinsell, Richard, 1904-1977 Greenwood, John, 1889-1975 Mathieson, Muir Junge, Alfred Watkins, A. W. Stevens, C. C. Veidt, Conrad, 1893-1943 Hobson, Valerie, 1917-1998 Petrie, Hay, 1895-1948 Ambler, Joss, 1900-1959 Lo[2001], Kino on Video Call No: DVD Fic Contraband Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in England during the early days of World War II, a Danish sea captain and his passenger are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho. The plot progresses as a chase that puts the characters in one peculiar set of surroundings after another. Most of the story takes place under blackout conditions, in which the great city becomes a mysterious dark labyrinth.
![Contraband [DVD] (1940). Directed by Michael Powell](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Contraband [DVD] (1940). Directed by Michael Powell")
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c2008., HarperCollins Call No: Fic Hum Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Harriet, a widow, stands on the roof of Coventry Cathedral as part of the nightly fire watch, when first the factories and then the church itself are set on fire in an air attack. In the ensuing chaos Harriet and a young man have to find the way back to his home where he left his mother.
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2010., Hurtubise Call No: FR Fic Hum Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: La nuit est tombée sur Coventry, ville industrielle de lœAngleterre, en ce 14 novembre 1940. Harriet Marsh est juchée sur le toit de la cathédrale, à lœaffût dœune attaque de lœaviation allemande. Depuis lœété, dix-sept raids ont eu lieu sur la ville, provoquant des dégâts limités. Le dix-huitième, qui se déploiera à la faveur dœune pleine lune propice, sera aussi le dernier. Pour Harriet, Jeremy, un jeune homme qui fait le guet avec elle, et sa mère Maeve, terrée non loin de là dans une cave, cette nuit tragique aura une incidence déterminante sur le reste de leur vie. Dans le cadre bouleversant de lœune des attaques aériennes les plus meurtrières de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Helen Humphreys tisse, entre le fracas et la fureur des bombes, dans la fumée et la poussière, parmi les ruines et les cratères, une histoire dœune infinie beauté. Dans la ville en flammes où les hirondelles tombent toutes rôties des nues, Harriet guide Jeremy à la recherche de sa mère. Alors que la mort déferle partout autour dœelle, Harriet reprend vie et redécouvre des sentiments quœelle croyait à jamais enfouis. Un récit dœune sobriété et dœune justesse sans faille, dœune sensibilité à fleur de peau, qui explore les thèmes de lœamour, de la mémoire et de la perte à travers une intrigue haletante. Un livre dœune troublante actualité, à offrir aux grands de ce monde qui persistent à tuer chaque jour, par militaires interposés, des centaines dœinnocents. Un livre dœune poésie envoûtante, où lœon suit pas à pas les trois héros dans les décombres, en tremblant de peur et dœangoisse pour des êtres de papier.
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2021., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: MYS Fic Rad Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House-the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie-in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca's Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from the Blitz. Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be touched, restrictions on rooms not to be entered, and a generous library, filled with books about murder. The biggest mystery might be the other nurse, Gigi, who is like no one Bridey has ever met. Chasing ten young children through the winding paths of the estate grounds might have soothed Bridey's anxieties and grief-if Greenway were not situated so near the English Channel and the rising aggressions of the war. When a body washes ashore near the estate, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of a brutal killing. As the local villagers look among themselves, Bridey and Gigi discover they each harbor dangerous secrets about what has led them to Greenway. With a mystery writer's home as their unsettling backdrop, the young women must unravel the truth before their safe haven becomes a place of death.
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c2010., Adult, Atria Books Call No: Fic Mor Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Millderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl, Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Millderhurst Castle with the Blythe family: Juniper, her twin sisters and their father, Raymond. In the grand and glorious Millderhurst Castle, a new world opens up for Edie's mother. She discovers the joys of books and fantasy and writing, but also, ultimately, the dangers. Fifty years later, as Edie chases the answers to her mother's riddle, she, too, is drawn to Millderhurst Castle and the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Old ladies now, the three still live together, the twins nursing Juniper, whose abandonment by her fiance in 1941 plunged her into madness. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Millderhurst Castle, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in the distant hours has been waiting a long time for someone to find it..."--Fantastic Fiction website.
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c2004., Fourth Estate Call No: SC MYS Fic Cha Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Passmore, Simon Green, Jill Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- Silberston, Jeremy Thacker, David Kitchen, Michael, 1948- Howell, Anthony, 1971- Weeks, Honeysuckle, 1979- Ovenden, Julian Fox, Edward, 1937- Hardy, Robert, 1925- Horovitch, David Pike, Rosamund, 1979- Dance, Charles Farrell, Nicholas Greenlit Productions Paddock Productions Acorn Media (Firm)[2009]., Distributed by Acorn Media Call No: DVD Fic Foyle Edition: Complete U.K. broadcast ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Foyle's war Volume: 1Summary Note: Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle's War takes place far from the glory of the front. His is an ordinary struggle, against everyday evil, in extraordinarily dangerous times.
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By Passmore, Simon Green, Jill Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- Hall, Matthew Russell, Michael Silberston, Jeremy Foster, Giles Kitchen, Michael, 1948- Howell, Anthony, 1971- Weeks, Honeysuckle, 1979- Ovenden, Julian Farrell, Nicholas Howard, Alan, 1937-2015 Redgrave, Corin Root, Amanda Greenlit Productions Paddock Productions Acorn Media (Firm)[2009]., Distributed by Acorn Media Call No: DVD Fic Foyle 2 Edition: Complete U.K. broadcast ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Foyle's war Volume: 2Summary Note: Set in September and October 1940, Michael Kitchen stars as the quietly enigmatic detective Christopher Foyle, whose territory on the south coast of England is rocked by the chaos and danger of World War II.
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By Thompson, Keith Green, Jill Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- Heyland, Rob Millar, Gavin Silberston, Jeremy Kitchen, Michael, 1948- Howell, Anthony, 1971- Weeks, Honeysuckle, 1979- Ovenden, Julian Redgrave, Corin Paterson, Bill, 1945- Gonet, Stella West, Samuel, 1966- Thorne, Angela, 1939- Wilby, James Greenlit Productions Paddock Productions Acorn Media (Firm)[2009]., Distributed by Acorn Media Call No: DVD Fic Foyle 3 Edition: Complete U.K. broadcast ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Foyle's war Volume: 3Summary Note: Set in 1941, as World War II rages over Europe, Michael Kitchen stars as detective Christopher Foyle, whose loyalties are put to the test as his investigations uncover unpleasant truths that powerful people would rather keep hidden.
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2010., Distributed by Acorn Media Call No: DVD Fic Foyle 6 Edition: Complete U.K. broadcast ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Foyle's war Volume: 6Summary Note: Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.
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By Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- Kane, David, 1961- Gwilt, Jeremy Hay, Andy, 1954- Orme, Stuart Giorgetti, Daniel Kitchen, Michael, 1948- McMullan, Tim Weyman, Dan Weeks, Honeysuckle, 1979- Haddington, Ellie Swift, Jeremy, 1960- Vansittart, Rupert Acorn Media (Firm) Eleventh Hour Films (Firm) Otcagon Films (Firm) RLJ Entertainment ITV (Firm) Public Broadcasting Service (U2013., Distributed by RLJ Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Foyle 7 Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Foyle's war Volume: 7Summary Note: As the enormously popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.