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62) Resistance
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In German-occupied Normandy, France, fifteen-year-old Marianne worries that her mother is exposing the family, especially Marianne's deaf younger brother, to great danger by volunteering for more perilous assignments in the resistance movement.
63) Jackdaws
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In his own best tradition of "Eye of the Needle" and "The Key to Rebecca, " Follett follows his major bestseller, "Code to Zero, " with a breathtaking novel of suspense set in the most dangerous days of World War II.
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"To say Virginia "Dindy" Hall was ambitious would be an understatement. She was that girl at your high school who makes everyone else look like a slacker, no matter how hard they're working. But how many of them can say they've been on Nazi Germany's Most Wanted list? At a time when most women were expected to becomes wives and mothers, Virginia craved adventure. And with the world gearing up for a second World War, this fearless woman knew that she...
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When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted across the continent, instead of returning home, she headed to France.
In a country divided by freedom and fascism, Virginia was determined to do her part for the Allies. An ordinary woman from Baltimore, MD, she dove into the action, first joining a French ambulance unit and later becoming an undercover agent...
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Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Ch�teau Bellevue. The old ch�teau echoes with voices from the past, and soon Abi finds herself drawn to one remarkable womans story, a story that could change the course of her summer-and her life. In 1938, Eliane Martin tends beehives in the garden of the beautiful Ch�teau Bellevue. In its shadow she meets Mathieu Dubosq and falls in love for...
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Claire Harris arrives in Paris with a romantic vision of starting anew. But she didn't anticipate the sight of Nazi soldiers marching under the Arc de Triomphe. Her plans smashed by the German Occupation, the once privileged socialite's only option is to take a job in a flower shop under the tutelage of a sophisticated Parisian florist.
72) Plenty
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Susan Traherne is a former World War II French Resistance fighter who returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences in occupied France. She finds that she is having trouble fitting back into formal British society after the war.
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Gino Bartali pedaled across Italy for years, winning one cycling race after another, including the 1938 Tour de France. Gino became an international sports hero! But the next year, World War II began, and it changed everything. Soldiers marched into Italy. Tanks rolled down the cobbled streets of Florence. And powerful leaders declared that Jewish people should be arrested. To the entire world, Gino Bartali was merely a champion cyclist. But Gino's...
76) Liberation
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Drawn into the underground Resistance in occupied France, special-ops spy Nancy Wake quickly rises to the top of the Nazi's most-wanted list, only to find her husband arrested for the acts she has committed.
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