Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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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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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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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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Ã2017., Adult, William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Rob Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly newsmagazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined. Although most of Ruby's new colleagues welcome her, a few resent her presence, not only as an American but also as a woman. She is just beginning to find her feet, to feel at home in a country that is so familiar yet so foreign, when the bombs begin to fall. As the nightly horror of the Blitz stretches unbroken into weeks and months, Ruby must set aside her determination to remain an objective observer. When she loses everything but her life, and must depend upon the kindness of strangers, she learns for the first time the depth and measure of true friendship--and what it is to love a man who is burdened by secrets that aren't his to share."--From publisher.
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2002., Anchor Books Call No: Fic Bow Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II. Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd intimacy born of crisis. Stella Rodney is one of those who chose to stay. But for her, the sense of impending catastrophe becomes acutely personal when she discovers that her lover, Robert, is suspected of selling secrets to the enemy, and that the man who is following him wants Stella herself as the price of his silence. Caught between these two men, not sure whom to believe, Stella finds her world crumbling as she learns how little we can truly know of those around us.
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2017., Adult, Harper Call No: MYS Fic Win Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Maisie Dobbs novel Volume: 13Summary Note: "Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the 'last war,' a new kind of refugee--an evacuee from London--appears in Maisie's life. The little girl billeted at Maisie's home in Kent does not, or cannot, speak, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the 'Operation Pied Piper' evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna. As Maisie's search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come. Britain is approaching its gravest hour--and Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own."--From publisher.
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-- Land girls.[2011]., Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Call No: DVD Fic Land G2 Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Land girls Volume: 2Summary Note: Follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields for Britain during WWII in the Women's Land Army.
![Land girls, season 2 [DVD] (2011) Created by Roland Moore. Series 2 /](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Land girls, season 2 [DVD] (2011) Created by Roland Moore. Series 2 /")
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[2012]., Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Call No: DVD Fic Land G3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Land girls Volume: 3Summary Note: Set in rural England during the Second World War, the highly popular, award-winning drama returns for a third five-part series and continues to follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields in the Women's Land Army.
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By Jenoff, Pam2015., Adult, Mira Call No: Fic Jen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Summer 1941. Young Adelia Monteforte flees fascist Italy for America, where she is whisked away to the shore by her well-meaning aunt and uncle. Here, she meets and falls for Charlie Connally, the eldest of the four Irish-Catholic boys next door. But all hopes for a future together are soon throttled by the war and a tragedy that hits much closer to home. Grief-stricken, Addie flees - first to Washington and then to war-torn London - and finds a position at a prestigious newspaper, as well as a chance to redeem lost time, lost family... and lost love. But the past always nips at her heels, demanding to be reckoned with. And in a final, fateful choice, Addie discovers that the way home may be a path she never suspected."--Back cover.
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2020., Adult, One More Chapter Call No: Fic Pet Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When all seems lost... As Hitler's bombs rain down on a battered and beleaguered Britain, Ruby Shadwell is dealt the most devastating blow - her entire family lost during the Coventry Blitz. Hope still survives... Alone and with the city in chaos, Ruby is determined to survive this war and rebuild her life. And a chance encounter with street urchin Tommy gives Ruby just the chance she needs... And love will overcome. Because Tommy brings with him Canadian Sergeant Jean-Paul Clayton. Jean-Paul is drawn to Ruby and wants to help her, but Ruby cannot bear another loss. Can love bloom amidst the ruins? Or will the war take Ruby's last chance at happiness too?
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By Quinn, Kate2021., Adult, William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Qui Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything - beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses - but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true enemy--closer...
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c2011., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Jen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The world is at war, and Elsie Bates, a vivacious young Londoner, is now working in the fields of Shropshire as a member of the Land Army. The war has changed everyone's lives, not least those of the civilian aliens imprisoned in a nearby prisoner of war camp. A German invasion seems imminent and everyone is on edge and, at night, literally in the dark. Then Elsie's body is found by the side of the road, a German pistol by her side, and Detective Inspector Tom Tyler has much more to worry about than the Nazis and his son's odd behaviour since he came home from the disastrous battle at Dunkirk."--Fantastic Fiction.
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2017., Adult, Elevation Pictures Call No: DVD Fic TheirF Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The year is 1940, London. With the nation bowed down by war, the British ministry turns to propaganda films to boost morale at home. Realizing their films could use "a woman's touch," the ministry hires CatrinCole (Gemma Arterton) as a scriptwriter in charge of writing the female dialogue. Although her artist husband looks down on her job, Catrin'snatural flair quickly gets her noticed by cynical, witty lead scriptwriter Buckley (Sam Claflin). Catrinand Buckley set out to make an epic feature film based on the Dunkirk rescue starring the gloriously vain, former matinee idol Ambrose Hilliard (Bill Nighy). As bombs are dropping all around them, Catrin, Buckley and their colorful cast and crew work furiously to make a film that will warm the hearts of the nation.
![Their finest [DVD] (2016). Directed by Lone Scherfig.](/Library/images/~imageCT85621.JPG "Their finest [DVD] (2016). Directed by Lone Scherfig.")
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Ã2018., Adult, Harper Call No: MYS Fic Win Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Maisie Dobbs novel Volume: 14Summary Note: "During the months following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. Maisie's investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. Yet when a final confrontation approaches, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future--and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality."--Publisher.
