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"It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrowboat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them--but as she folds and gathers pages, her mind wanders to the opposite side of Walton Street,...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1986
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
217 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism.
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Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
591 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In December 1913, the city of Vienna glitters with promises of the future for sought-after debutante Amalia Faulhaber. But life takes a dramatic turn when simmering political unrest escalates into WWI and she must now choose between an idealistic young Polish doctor, who shares her political views, and the wealthy Baron von Schoenenburg, an Austrian Cabinet minister who promises to provide safety and security.
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Codebreakers (Roseanna White) volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Zivon Marin was one of Russia's top cryptographers until the October Revolution tore apart his world. Forced to flee to England after speaking out against Lenin, Zivon is driven by a growing anger and determined to offer his services to the Brits. But never far from his mind is his brother, whom Zivon fears died in the train crash that separated them. Lily Blackwell sees the world best through the lens of a camera and possesses unsurpassed skill...
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Series
World War I novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Edition
Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on a rescue mission during World War I, Chaplain Joseph Reavley finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice, who appears to have been killed by one of his own compatriots, and vows to learn the truth behind the man's death.
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English
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The paths of two men cross aboard the pride of the British fleet, the luxury cruise liner R.M.S. Lusitania, where a small copy of the Book of Mormon sparks a friendship. But in the deep waters of the Atlantic, danger becomes certain as the crew and passengers of the Lusitania face a bitter enemy, a foolish captain, and a single torpedo.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Helen wants to contribute to the war effort after the United States goes to war in 1917--so she joins the Women's Land Army of America, an organization that trains women to do farm work, replacing the workers drafted into the army.
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Publisher
Kensington Books
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English
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In post World War I England, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady s maid, Eva Huntford, encounter an uncharitable killer at a charity luncheon sponsored by a posh school for girls . . . Good deeds build good character, and good character is what the Haverleigh School for Young Ladies is all about. Lady Phoebe with the tireless assistance of Eva has organized a luncheon at the school to benefit wounded veterans of the Great War, encouraging the students...
90) The night flyers
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.
91) In love's time
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Language
English
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"In the summer of 1918, Captain Marcus Weatherford arrives in Russia on a secret mission, with a beautiful ballerina posing as his fiancée. Marcus searches for the Romanov tsarina and her son--who both allegedly survived the murdering Bolsheviks--and the information behind an allied plot to assassinate Lenin. But Marcus's sense of duty battles his desire to return home to Clare--his actual love. Hospital orderly Clare Danner still suffers from Marcus's...
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English
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The summer of 1917 should have been a summer like any other. Stephen Robbins should have been doing the same thing he'd been doing for years past. As a young boy he'd fled his life in a secluded mountain cove and risen through the ranks to become the manager of the South's finest resort, the elegant Mountain Park Hotel. By all rights, he should have spent this summer as host to some of the wealthiest gentry on the East Coast. Hans Ruser, German Commodore...
93) Birdsong
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Series
French trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s
In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land....
In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land....
95) Mirror image
Author
Language
English
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Description
Victoria Henderson, on the verge of scandal, is forced by her father into a loveless marriage with widower Charles Dawson, but even wedlock cannot tame Victoria's spirit, and she and her identical twin sister Olivia decide to pull a switch that has both terrible and wonderful repercussions.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
124 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively, this series is the best way to be introduced to some of the most well-known battles (and little-known secrets) of the infamous war"--
"World War...
97) The cove
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Language
English
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Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love cannot protect them from a devastating secret.
98) War horse
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
99) Birdsong
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Shifting in time between 1910 and 1916, Birdsong is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire. They begin an illicit and all-consuming affair, but the relationship falters. Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love, and is haunted by memories...
100) Lawrence of Arabia
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 227 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
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