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Author
Series
Eliza Ferriday volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War I, April Tipton, a nineteen-year-old former maid, takes a job at Thornshire Arsenal filling shells, where she befriends the wife of a star footballer and the decides to join the ladies' football club.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
When pregnant American student Charlie St. Clair is banished to Europe by her family to have her baby, she takes the opportunity to head for London to find her missing French cousin and teams up with Eve, a former spy from the Alice Network, to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
The Codebreakers volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the Great War, Margot spends her days deciphering intercepted messages, until a sudden loss turns her world upside down. Drake returns wounded from the field, followed by a destructive enemy. Immediately smitten with Margot, Drake convince attempts to convince her that sometimes life's answers lie in the heart.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
While tending to the soldiers in his care, chaplain Joseph Reavley stumbles upon the body of a war correspondent, while his brother Matthew, an intelligence officer, searches for the sinister criminal mastermind known as the Peacemaker.
Author
Series
The Bess Crawford mysteries volume BK. 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
World War I nurse Bess Crawford promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying request to his brother, a request that is treated with skepticism, leading Bess to carry it out herself and put her own life at risk for Arthur's sake.
Author
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 249 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twenty-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under the first brutal bombardment in the trenches. Through the ensuing years of horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different...
Author
Series
A novel of World War 1 volume 5
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the war coming to a close, chaplain Joseph Reavley and his family learn that the identity of the sinister ideologue called the Peacemaker is about to be revealed by a German counterpart, but the family must first solve the mystery of a murdered nurse.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history in the making. It tells of the relationship between Pinto and Osman, who cross the battlefields of the First World War, find love, and fight to survive"--
11) Nick
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator from "The Great Gatsby" imagines the life of Nick Carraway before Gatsby, depicting a war-traumatized, heavily drinking man who embarks on a doomed journey of redemption from Paris to New Orleans.
13) World War One
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 226 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
14) World War I
Author
Publisher
Covent Garden Books/DK Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
319 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the animosity-filled years prior to 1914 through the Treaty of Versailles and from the European campaigns to naval battles, this book explains the causes of the war, the course the war followed, and what made it the most costly and destructive war in the world's history.
16) The walnut tree
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the horrors she witnessed in France during the enemy invasion of 1914, Lady Elspeth Douglas, a titled young Englishwoman, is transformed by her experience and leaves her sheltered life behind to become a nurse and return to the battlefields of France to do her part.
17) An hour unspent
Author
Series
Shadows over England volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
412 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As 1915 England plunges into war, Barclay Pearce, a thief, rescues Evelina Manning from a mugging and begins to wonder what his future holds. When her father's military invention endangers her whole family, it may just take a reformed thief to steal thetime they need to escape"--
19) In memoriam
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, all of whom are safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. They receive weekly dispatches from The Preshutian, their school newspaper, informing them of older classmates killed or wounded in action....
Author
Series
War at home 1918 volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English