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822) Before the crown
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most iconic Royal weddings of all time. A marriage spanning more than seven decades. A match that was deemed unsuitable. A man she wouldn't give up. Step through the palace gates and discover the greatest love story of the 20th century. A prince without a country, a boy without a home, a man in search of a destiny. He is the risk she has never been allowed to take. The risk not even the shadow of the crown will stop her from taking ......
823) The invisible woman
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the depths of war, she would defy the odds to help liberate a nation...A gripping historical novel based on a remarkable true story of World War II heroine Virginia Hall, from the bestselling author of Hemingway's Girl. France, March 1944. Virginia Hall wasn't like the other young society women back home in Baltimore-she never wanted the debutante ball or silk gloves. Instead, she traded a safe life for adventure in Europe, and when her beloved...
824) The ghost road
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Famed psychologist Dr. William Rivers faces the wrenching challenge of restoring men to health, only to send them back to war and almost certain death. Lieutenant Billy Prior, who is cured of shell shock by Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital, is compelled beyond reason to return to the battlefield for a fourth tour of duty. For both men, the war is inescapable and consuming.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tarti re, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will change her life forever. Befriended by seasoned wartime journalist...
Author
Series
Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 6
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
June, 1942--Libya. Free French Officer Susan Travers was one of the few women on the frontlines in Africa during World War Two. After the Germans surrounded the military camp of Bir Hakeim, a shocking order was issued. The French troops were going to break out in the middle of the night--crossing through dangerous minefields and enemy territory--to reach their British allies. And Officer Travers would be leading the charge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself.
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