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Bravery, courage, fear and love in a time of war. Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and Viann finds herself isolated so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters'...
2) Ignorance
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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After every war there are stories that are locked away like bluebottles in drawers and kept silent. But sometimes the past can return: in the smell of carbolic soap, in whispers darting through a village after mass, in the colour of an undelivered letter. Jeanne Nerin and Marie-Angl̈e Baudry grow up, side by side yet apart, in the village of Ste Madeleine. Marie-Angl̈e is the daughter of the grocer, inflated with ideas of her own piety and rightful...
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Bolinda/Brilliance audio
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Glamour, treachery and romance collide when an English socialite throws herself into the dangerous arms of Nazi-occupied Paris. As the eldest daughter of Sir Alfred Whitford, Kat has always played by the rules. Her little sister, Ellie, lives to break them. After running away to Paris, Ellie has disgraced the Whitfords by taking up with a Nazi officer and living in luxury as the world around her burns. Kat is determined to bring her reckless sister...
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Emilie de la Martinieres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her mother, she finds herself sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France. As she rediscovers her family's story, Emilie realizes that the chateau may hold more secrets than just fond childhood memories.
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Paris, 1943. The swastika flies from the top of the Eiffel Tower. Soldiers clad in field grey patrol the streets. Buildings have been renamed, books banned, art stolen and people disappeared. Amongst the missing is an Allied intelligence cell. Gone to ground? Betrayed? Dead? Britain's Special Operations Executive need to find out. They recruit ex-Parisian and Bletchley Park codebreaker Harry Mitchell to return to the city he fled two years ago. Mitchell...
6) Citadel
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Set during World War II in the far south of France, this is a powerful, action-packed mystery that reveals the secrets of the resistance under Nazi occupation. While war blazed in the trenches at the front, back at home a different battle is waged, full of clandestine bravery, treachery and secrets.
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Bolinda/Brilliance audio
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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An iconic city under siege during World War II and the bravery of two women who joined the Resistance to save it ... Paris, 1939. The closing of Maison Chanel thrusts haute couture dressmaker Lila de Laurent out of the world of high fashion and into occupation as Nazi soldiers invade the streets and the City of Lights slips into darkness. Lila's fight for survival turns into a series of rations, brutal restrictions and carefully controlled propaganda...
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Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Recruited from Churchill's typing pool to become an undercover spy in German-occupied France, a young woman from London bravely endures daring missions, audacious escapes, and harrowing imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, risking everything for the country - and the man - she loves.
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Lamplight Large Print Books
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2020.
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When Adelaide Anson-Gravetty finds out her father is not the man who raised her, she is both shocked and intrigued. Determined to find out more, she travels to the convent of Our Lady of Mercy in France to meet her aunt, the Reverend Mother. But when France falls to the German army, Adelaide and the nuns are soon in the thick of a war that threatens both their beliefs and their lives. Collaborating with the resistance, sheltering Jewish orphans, defying...
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As war rages across Europe, one young woman faces an impossible choice. Will she save her country - or the man she loves? It is the late 1930s. In London, socialite Rosamund Hanbury is determined to give up the parties and social sets of which she is a prominent member to join the war effort, along with scores of other young women. After a stint at Bletchley Park and as one of the Air Transport Auxiliary's 'Atagirls', Rosamund is recruited by the...
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Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Paris, 1941. As Coco Chanel's assistant, Adele lives side by side with German officers in the splendor of The Ritz hotel. But Adele has a secret. She is working for the resistance, right under the German's noses. As occupied Paris becomes more and more dangerous, Adele will have to decide if she can risk everything to save innocent lives and protect the man she loves. Present day. Chloe's grandmother has never spoken about the war and avoids questions...
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Bolinda/Brilliance audio
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Saint-Malo, France, August 1938. The German invasion has begun, and Jocelyn Ferrec - the guardian of the Saint Malo Library - clings to her husband, Antoine and to the priceless books under her care. But she and everything she holds dear are in danger as Germany encroaches upon every corner of the continent. Antoine is forced to the frontlines, and Jocelyn must contend with an illness that threatens her very life. Despite her fear and loneliness,...
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