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Summary: In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2012

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVI

Brookes, Maggie

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Inspired by a true story, a daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BRO

Stoner, Tammy Lynne

Summary: It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend--who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)--but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STO

Morris, Heather

Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MOR

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Morris

Weiss, Leah

Summary: In North Carolina, during World War II, two girls--Lucy Brown and Allie Bert Tucker--decide to solve crimes just like Nancy Drew. Their chance comes when a man goes missing from town. Before they can solve the case, a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp opens, and more men go missing. Together the girls embark on a journey to discover if we ever really know who the enemy is.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

Groot, Tracy

Summary: Three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with Andersonville Prison's atrocities and learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Pub 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRO

Hunter, Stephen

Summary: In 1951, the disappearance of Sam Vincent, who was investigating a prison for violent African American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, draws Earl Swagger into a confrontation with a town guarded by a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs and rednecks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

Gaynor, Hazel

Summary: Enduring privation when Japan declares war on England, a teacher at a British missionary school in China is sent to a distant internment camp, where she provides support and instruction to incarcerated children taken from their parents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAY

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAY

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gaynor 2020

Escobar, Mario

Summary: In 1943 Germany, Helene is just about to wake up her children to go to school when a group of policemen break into her house. The policemen want to haul away her gypsy husband and their five children. The police tell Helene that as a German she does not have to go with them, but she decides to share the fate of her family. After convincing her children that they are going off to a vacation...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESC

Kanon, Joseph

Summary: "Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and a lower level CIA...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAN

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KAN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAN

Mikulencak, Mandy

Summary: Many children have grown up in the shadow of Louisiana’s Greenmount State Penitentiary. Most of them—sons and daughters of corrections officers and staff—left the place as soon as they could. Yet Ginny Polk chose to come back to work as a prison cook. She knows the harsh reality of life within those walls—the cries of men being beaten, the lines of shuffling inmates chained together. Yet she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mikulencak 2018

May, James L.

Summary: "Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction May 2020

Johnson, Sadeqa

2 holds on 4 copies

Summary: Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOH

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Johnson 2021

Morris, Heather

Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Moore, Heather B.

Summary: "Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java--living with other Dutch...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2023

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Shipman, James D

Summary: "Based on the true story of General Patton's clandestine unauthorized raid on a World War II POW camp. March, 1945. Allied forces are battle-worn but wearily optimistic. Russia's Red Army is advancing hard on Germany from the east, bolstering Allied troops moving in from the west and north. Soon, surely, Axis forces must accept defeat. Yet for Captain Jim Curtis, each day is a reminder of how...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHI

Moore, Heather B.

Summary: Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies. Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java'living with other Dutch families'had...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MOO

Hooper, Elise

Summary: Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II's American Army nurses famously known as the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately--victory. The Philippines, 1941: when the Japanese Imperial Army invades, American Army nurse Tess Abbott and her band of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

Lawhon, Ariel

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they are living a paradise assignment. As the beauty and promise of their surroundings give way to the heavy mantle of war, they are caught in the crosshairs of a fight between the U.S. military and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022

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Kortchik, Lana

Summary: While on a train headed for labor camps under Nazi command, Lisa, a young Russian woman, is rescued by resistance fighters and falls in love with Maxim, one of the battalion members, who has dark secrets, while Maxim's wife, Irina, trapped in a government job back in Kyïv, risks her life to help her neighbors, and both women must face a hard decision.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kortchik 2021

Khavari, Kate

Summary: "Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues' beliefs about women's academic inabilities and not-so-subtle hints that her deceased father's reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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Khavari, Kate

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Summary: Saffron Everleigh is in a race against time to free her wrongly accused professor before he goes behind bars forever. Perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Anna Lee Huber, Kate Khavari's debut historical mystery is a fast paced, fearless adventure. London, 1923. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh attends a dinner party for the University College of London. While she expects to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHA

Jenoff, Pam

Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JEN

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