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1) Marking time
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Cazalet chronicles volume 2
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English
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Three Cazalet cousins--Louise, Polly, and Clary--are so eager to shed the trappings of childhood that they view the war from a different perspective than their more experienced parents.
2) Confusion
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In the wake of her mother's death, Polly moves to London and becomes involved in a love triangle with her cousin and a family friend, while teenage Louise suffers an ill-fated pregnancy and Zoe begins an affair.
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Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how he rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancée, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who'd...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"...March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a teacher on a cotton plantation that employs freed slaves, or "contraband." His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave whom he met...
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As she plans a party for her son and daughter, Rehana Haque's life will be transformed in a story of one family caught in the middle of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, as they face changes and decisions that will have a profound impact on their lives.
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House of Winslow volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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Zacherias Winslow is The Wounded Yankee. Fighting for the Union Army, he is wounded in battle and sent home. When he arrives home, Zacherias discovers that in his absence his partner has stolen both his fiancee and his business. Zacherias moves to Montana to live as a hermit, but a godly Welch woman and her three children land on his doorstep and challenge his bitter heart.
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Lustmord: the joy of murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the slaying of a young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden in 1929 Munich. Homicide inspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime and disturbed by the artful arrangement of the victim's clothes and hair - a madman's portrait of death. Berg's superiors demand a quick arrest. When a second body is discovered, the city erupts into panic, the unrest fomented by a wild-eyed, hate-mongering...
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House of Winslow volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
940L
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English
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The Winslow family came over on the Mayflower and have been firmly rooted in the colonies ever since. With the coming of the American Revolution, their loyalties are tested as family members find themselves on opposite sides in the war for freedom.
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Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Wonder Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit-- especially in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother, Stella. This novel captures postwar Brooklyn through Wally's eyes, opening on V-J day, as she grows up with the rest of America. Reeling from her own unexpected wartime tragedy...
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"From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a new World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio...
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Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, Welsh--enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life...
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Tatiana and Dasha Metanov are two sisters sharing a cramped apartment with their brother and parents in Stalin's Russia when Tatiana meets and falls in love with Alexander, an officer in the Red Army whose self-confidence sets him apart from most Russian men and helps to conceal a mysterious and troubled past.
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Daughters of fortune (Judith Pella) volume 1
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English
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Three sisters, daughters of newspaper tycoon Keagan Hayes, follow very different paths in life with Cameron, the oldest, taking a job with a rival newspaper in 1941 and heading off on assignment to Russia; Blair giving her all to become a Hollywood star; and college student Jackie trying to hold to her Christian ideals by befriending a Japanese American boy.
16) Casting off
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Cazalet chronicles volume 4
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English
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"The excitment of VE day has come and gone, and England remains locked in the drab grip of privation. Polly and Clary Cazalet, now twenty and sharing a London flat, wonder whether life will ever get easier. Against the backdrop of a crumbling empire, the Cazalets and their family, friends, and lovers watch a number of startling events unfold: deaths, weddings, a shattering pregnancy, divorces."--P. [4] of cover.
17) War brides
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Alice Osbourne, the stolid daughter of the late vicar, is reeling from the news that Richard Fairfax broke their engagement to marry Evangeline Fontaine, an American girl from the Deep South. Evangeline's arrival causes a stir in the village but not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. Scrappy Elsie Pigeon is among the poor of London who see the evacuations as a chance to escape a life of destitution. Another new arrival...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When Darroti, a young merchant in the city of Lemabantunk, is accused of murdering a highborn woman, he and his family are exiled to the unknown world that lies beyond a mysterious gate, where they encounter a world tormented by hatred and warfare.
20) Our Lizzie
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Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit. At twelve, she loses her father and her happy family life ends as her mother grows to resent her. Then circumstances push Lizzie into an early marriage, where she finds her mother's petty cruelties replaced by her husband's frequent beatings.
But she is a survivor. When World War I breaks out, Lizzie's husband is forced to join up and she seizes the opportunity to run away. She finds independence and friendship...
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