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1) Jackdaws
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of women saboteurs must destroy the largest telephone exchange in Europe to knock out the German communications system before D-Day.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
A story told from alternating perspectives follows the experiences of a traumatized survivor of the Nazi occupation in France and a Jewish woman in wartime Paris who entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger.
Santa Cruz, 1953. Jean-Luc is a man on the run from his past. The scar on his face is a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation in France. Now, he has a new life in California, a family. He never expected the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life--her young daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
331 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Watermark is a powerful novel about the destructive forces unleashed by ignorance and superstition. Readers will care deeply for the courageous Auda."
-New York Times bestselling author Sharon Kay Penman
Watermark is a magnificent debut by Vanitha Sankaran-an atmospheric and compelling novel about the search for identity, the power of self-expression, and value of the written word, set during the dark days of the Inquisition in Medieval...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an orphan's self-reliance and wants nothing to do with war. But as the realities of Nazi occupation transform her life in the isolated castle where she came of age, she makes a discovery that calls into question who she is, and more importantly, who she is willing to become. 1914. Glittering New York socialite Beatrice Astor Chanler is a force of nature, daunted by nothing--not her...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvii, 157 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From the moment Sylvie and Andře meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andře becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril.
7) Citadel
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012.
Physical Desc
686 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives to save their homeland and protect astonishing secrets buried in time in France, 1942. In Carcassonne, a colorful historic village nestled deep in the Pyrenees, a group of courageous women are engaged in a lethal battle. Like their ancestors who fought to protect their land from Northern invaders seven hundred years...
11) Desert
Author
Series
Verba Mundi volume 15
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being driven from their land by French colonial soldiers in 1909, Nour and his people, "the blue men" must search for a haven out of the desert that will shelter them. Interspersed with the story of Nour is the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendent of the blue men, who lives in Morocco and tries to stay true to the blood of her ancestors while experiencing life as a modern immigrant.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
American academic Trevor Stratton discovers a box full of artifacts from World War I as he settles into his new office in Paris. The pictures, letters, and objects in the box relate to the life of Louise Brunet, a feisty, charming Frenchwoman who lived through both World Wars. As Trevor examines and documents the relics the box offers up, he begins to imagine the story of Louise Brunet's life: her love for a cousin who died in the war, her marriage...
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
138 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Cameroon, 1929. As colonial powers fight for influence in Africa, French military surgeon Eügne Jamot is dispatched to Cameroon to lead the fight against sleeping sickness there. But despite his humanitarian intentions, the worst comes to pass: seven hundred local villagers are left blind as a result of medical malpractice by a doctor under Jamot's watch. Damienne Bourdin, a young white woman, ventures to Cameroon to assist in the treatment effort....
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 514, 29 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Six best-selling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers - six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution. Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution - and change the world. In...