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Summary: Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). But when a young woman goes missing, leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HOPPearce, A. J. (Amanda-Jane)
Summary: "London, 1940. Emmeline Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent suddenly seem achievable. But the job turns out to be working as a typist for the fierce and renowned advice columnist, Henrietta Bird....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PEAMeissner, Susan
Summary: "Present day, Oxford, England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a perfect life, interviews Isabel McFarland just when the elderly woman is ready to give up secrets about the war that she has kept for decades--beginning with who she really is. What Kendra receives from Isabel is both a gift and a burden--one that will test her convictions and her heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Meissner 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P MEILyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LYOFeigel, Lara.
Summary: A portrait of World War II-era London by five literary volunteers documents their experiences as ambulance drivers, firefighters, and other civilian aids through five years of war, beginning with a single night in September 1940.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5342 FEILyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LYORobson, Jennifer
Summary: From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson--author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France--comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start a new life an ocean away from her past. In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: A tale set in World War II London finds a rescue worker struggling for composure after a bombing, a young woman longing for her soldier lover, and a convict who watches a battle through the bars of his window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATLyons, Annie
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LYOAlexander, Eileen
Summary: As cinematic as Atonement, written with the intimacy of the Neapolitan quartet, Love in the Blitz is an extraordinary glimpse of life in London during World War II and an illuminating portrait of an ordinary young woman trying to carve a place for herself in a time of uncertainty. As the Luftwaffe begins its bombardment of England, Eileen, like her fellow Britons, carries on while her loved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.1 ALELyons, Annie
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYOStansky, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 STAHarris, Robert J.
Summary: "London, 1943. Across the city, prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the source of this dreadful menace--Sherlock Holmes. The quest for a solution drives Holmes into an uneasy alliance with the country's most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARLawton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWCambron, Kristy
Summary: "Two women, one in the present day and one in 1942, each hope for a brighter future. But they'll both have to battle through their darkest days to reach it. Today. With the grand opening of her new gallery and a fairy-tale wedding months away, Sera James appears to have a charmed life. But in an instant, the prospect of a devastating legal battle surrounding her fiancé threatens to tear her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CAMCleave, Chris.
Summary: London, 1939. The day war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. Tom Shaw decides to ignore the war, until he learns his roommate Alistair Heath has unexpectedly enlisted. Then the conflict can no longer be avoided. Young, bright, and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy. When she is, bewilderingly, made a teacher,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Cleave 2016Faulks, Sebastian.
Summary: Set in England and France during the darkets days of World War II, a young Scottish woman who falls in love with an RAF pilot shortly before his plane is lost over France. She contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and also to search for him, buth then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUSilva, Daniel.
Summary: A World War II spy novel about a beautiful Nazi secret agent and her pursuer, a former history professor turned spy catcher. The setting is England, the time just before the D-Day landings. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SILCleave, Chris.
Summary: Shocking her blueblood political family by volunteering for the war effort in 1939 London, socialite Mary teaches evacuated and marginalized children and bonds with her employer, Tom, before their romance is challenged by a painful love triangle and the grueling realities of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CLECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CleaveWilson, Laura
Summary: London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, the coroner rules her death as suicide. Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced and suspects that Morgan's fatal fall may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters. Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILKelly, Julia
Summary: "It's easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past than to confront the present, which is why working for a gruff but brilliant antiques dealer is perfect. While clearing out an estate, she pries open an old tin that holds the relics of a lost relationship: an unfinished diary from World War II and a photo of a young woman in uniform. Captivated by the hauntingly beautiful entries,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KELWeaver, Ashley
Summary: "Safecracker Ellie McDonnell hasn't seen Major Ramsey -- her handsome but aloof handler in the British government -- since their tumultuous mission together three months before, but when she hears about a suspicious robbery in London she feels compelled to contact him. Together they discover that a rash of burglaries in the city all lead back to a hotbed of spies in the neutral city Lisbon,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEAGardner, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARKelly, Julia
Summary: Unable to confront the challenges in her own life, Cara Hargraves immerses herself in work for her antiques-dealer boss, uncovering relics from the life of World War II British "Gunner Girl" Louise Keene and her complicated relationship with a man named Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019