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by Katherine Arden
Published Jan 2025
Read ReviewsDuring the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale.
by Kristin Hannah
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2015 BookBrowse Fiction Award
Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with great monstrosities, but also great humanity and strength, a novel that will have readers talking long after they turn the last page.
by Anthony Doerr
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsA stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Winner of the 2014 BookBrowse Award for Fiction.
by Jane Urquhart
Published Dec 2016
Read ReviewsThe Night Stages explores the meaning of separation, the sorrows of fractured families, and the profound effect of Ireland's wild and elemental landscape on lives shaped by its beauty.
by Anna Hope
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsAnna Hope's brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives.
by Amanda Hodgkinson
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsA tour de force that echoes modern classics like Suite Francaise and The Postmistress.
by Sarah Blake
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsThe Postmistress is an unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury. It is about what happens to love during wartime, when those we cherish leave. And how every story - of love or war - is about looking left when we should have been looking right.
by Diane Ackerman
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsA true story, as powerful as Schindlers List, in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
by Michael Wallner
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsSet in 1943, April In Paris, by first time German novelist Wallner, is the dramatic story of an impossible love between a German soldier and a French Resistance fighter in occupied Paris.
by Jacqueline Winspear
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsMaisie is as intelligent and engaging a sleuth as one might desire: the period touches, from clothing to manners, are not only elegantly presented but unostentatious.
by Louis de Bernieres
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsEpic in its narrative sweep, steeped in historical fact yet profoundly humane, and dazzlingly evocative in its emotional and sensual detail. This is de Bernières' first book since Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
by Ursula Maria Mandel
Published Feb 2001
Read ReviewsThe story of a young American pilot and a destitute but spirited young mother who, in 1948, takes the courageous decision to rescue her sister's small daughter out of Berlin on the very day the Russians blockade the city.
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