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41) The orphan thief
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As Hitler's bombs rain down on a battered and beleaguered Britain, Ruby Shadwell is dealt the most devastating blow -- her entire family lost during the Coventry Blitz. Alone and with the city in chaos, Ruby is determined to survive this war and rebuild her life. And a chance encounter with street urchin Tommy gives Ruby just the chance she needs because Tommy brings with him Canadian Sergeant Jean-Paul Clayton. Jean-Paul is drawn to Ruby and wants...
42) Love Me Tender
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A heartrending tale of love and tragedy during The Birmingham Blitz. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves. For Kathy O'Malley, life has not been easy with her husband, Barry, out of work and with two children to feed. Then when war breaks out in 1939, many of the local men enlist, including Barry, leaving the women to cope as best they can. The years that follow are full of hardship: rationing, nightly air raids and endless shifts working...
43) The Burning Land
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In 1861, Henry and Katie have found love on the rugged Maine coast. He builds boats. She wants to teach school whenever her family duties relent. Their hearts are light and the future looks bright. Then America explodes in civil war. At first surprised by Katie's anti-slavery feelings, then persuaded, Henry enlists in the 20th Maine Infantry, fated to become a legendary regiment in the Union Army. Staggering through a dozen brutal battles, including...
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From the raw clay of historical fact, James Carlos Blake has sculpted a powerful novel of both a man and an America at war with themselves. Here is the brutally honest story of free-spirit William Anderson, who is pulled into a savage conflict of state against state in the years leading up to the Civil War. When Bill suffers a catastrophic loss, a fury is unleashed in his anguished soul. He becomes the most fearsome guerrilla captain and earns a name...
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The Leung family leads a life of secluded luxury in Hong Kong. But in December 1941, the Empire of Japan invades the colony. The family is quickly dragged into a spiral of violence, repression, and starvation. To survive, they entomb themselves and their friends in the Leung mansion. But this is only a temporary reprieve, and the Leungs are forced to send their children away. The youngest boy, Chung-Man, escapes with some of his siblings, and together...
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Entré au service des chevaliers de Malte dans le but d'échapper à la justice royale, le jeune Noris de Morteterre s'est rapidement vu confier la périlleuse mission de se rendre au cœur même des territoires barbaresques afin de libérer un ingénieur allemand récemment enlevé par un puissant rais décidé à lui arracher le secret des défenses de la forteresse de La Valette.
Parti à bord d'une des puissantes galères de combat en compagnie...
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Tandis qu'en ce printemps 1667, avide de prestige et de gloire militaire, le roi Louis XIV s'apprêtait à livrer aux Espagnols une guerre que l'histoire retiendrait sous le nom de « Guerre de Dévolution », retourné depuis peu au château familial, le jeune et bouillant marquis de Morteterre s'y ennuyait à mourir.
Manquant cruellement d'action, Noris devenait chaque jour un peu plus irritable. L'exaspération commençait alors à gagner ses...
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Engagé dans une trépidante chasse au trésor débutée à Madrid en compagnie du comte de Puertovar et d'Alfonzo Ricotta, le jeune et bouillant marquis de Morteterre fait son grand retour en Méditerranée.
Tandis que le comte est appelé à rejoindre la cité vénitienne de Candie assiégée, dans le but de mettre fin à une conspiration visant à la livrer aux Ottomans, devenu par un caprice du destin le capitaine et le propriétaire d'un brigantin...
49) L'Enfant loup
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Dans ce roman historique, un enfant disparu a bien du mal à admettre qu'il n'est pas un loup...
Dans ce volume, nous retrouverons un enfant disparu qui aura quelques difficultés à admettre qu'il n'est pas un loup. Nous verrons également le début des luttes et de la querelle dite « des investitures » entre la papauté et les empereurs de Germanie, qui durera plusieurs décennies. En Angleterre, Guillaume aura bien du mal avec ses barons et...
50) Defiance
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"Erich would never forget the day he betrayed the Third Reich."
Reinhard Heydrich is dead. And with it the chances of Erich Brandt ever returning from the Eastern front are also dead. Erich struggles to find a way out of the Einsatzgruppen death squads and back to finish the work he had started in Poland, but
thousands of miles away and with the Red Army throwing their whole weight against him his chances are ebbing away.
Johann Brandt continues...
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P's greatest dream is to fly. He sets out to become a Ugandan fighter pilot, training in an academy in Greece. When the 1971 Idi Amin coup in his homeland disrupts his plans, he defects and becomes a man on the run. In this extraordinary novel based on his own father's fate, Anyuru evokes P's struggles in gorgeous, vivid prose. As a refugee, military-camp prisoner, and exile, P never gives up hope and continues to dream of life as a pilot. In a story...
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A poignant love triangle between childhood sweethearts and their closest friend, set in Stuttgart, Germany, during the rise of Hitler's Third Reich, this tale takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster ride of pain, despair, and eventually, joy. Sweethearts, Marc and Lisbeth marry while their friend, Hans, who is a fugitive after joining Hitler's aborted putsch in Munich, can only watch from afar as the object of his affection pledges her love...
53) The Silk Code
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'The Silk Code had me absolutely hooked... A great storyline full of bravery, trust, love, survival, betrayal and determination.' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Based on the true story of 'Englandspiel', one woman must race against the clock to uncover a traitor, even if it means losing the man she loves. England, 1943:Deciding to throw herself into war work, Nancy Callaghan joins the Special Operations Executive in Baker Street. There, she begins...
54) The darkest hour
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"From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. Love is as uncertain and as untameable as war...In the summer of 1940, most eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England. The battle for Britain has just begun. But young Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony. Evie has a glittering career as an artist ahead of her but seems to be wasting her time sketching endless...
55) The Matchmaker
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A genteel English lady, looking for a spark is about to get a bonfire in this Regency romance by the USA Today, bestselling author of the Rosecliffe Trilogy.
Olivia may have, entered London society three-years ago, but all she has to show for it is extensive notes. The pages of her diary are, filled with details on every bachelor, who has ever clamored for a spot on her dance card. Although her book has afforded her a new hobby in matchmaking, it...
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From the bestselling author of The Collaborator comes a compelling story of betrayal, collusion, revenge, and redemption set in German-occupied Jersey during World War II.
June 1940. `It was a perfect June evening that began with hope and ended in despair.' So begins the journal of Hugh Jackson, a Jersey doctor, whose idyllic world is shattered when Britain abandons the Channel Islands which are invaded by the Germans. Forced to choose between...
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A heartbreaking tale of love and loss in a time of war, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves.
Jenny O'Leary is devastated one morning in 1940 when she receives a telegram giving her the dreadful news that one of her brothers has been killed in action. Grief threatens to engulf her, but as an ARP warden, tending to Birmingham's injured after the nightly raids, she is well-used to the suffering that thousands are enduring every day.
Linda...
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Stowaway... or wife! Commodore John Drymore's mission is clear. Sail to France, rescue Comte Giradet from prison and bring him and his daughter back to England safely. But Lisette Giradet defies the Commodore at every turn and soon gets under his skin more deeply than the bullet in his arm. Desperate to rescue her brother from the guillotine, Lisette smuggles herself back on board ship. With her life in jeopardy, she's given no choice - she must assume...
59) The Swan Maid
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The brand new compelling novel from the Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court. Lottie Lane is all alone in the world. As a chambermaid at one of London's busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery and at the mercy of a vicious landlady, Lottie is too worn out to even dream of a better life. Until one night an injured soldier is brought to The Swan. Lottie nurses him back from the dead and suddenly everything changes. She finds herself following...
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The much-loved author of ACROSS THE MERSEY tells of Liverpool under bombardment as never before - but the Campion family refuses to give in. The Campions have always stuck together through danger and sorrow, but even they begin to wonder if it's time to take their youngest, the twins, to safety away from the bombing raids. The twins have other worries on their minds; having been inseparable, they now realise that they each have different ambitions...
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