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Seven days in May : a novel of the Lusitania, inspired by true events / by Izzo, Kim,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Lusitania (Steamship); Man-woman relationships; World War, 1914-1918;

Absolution / by McDermott, Alice,author.;
"A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Military spouses; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Wives;

Envoy Connect player [equipment] : Historical fiction: wars. by Please return all components in the container.;
Includes: "When I was Yours" by Lizzi Page, "Don't Put the Boats Away" by Ames Sheldon, "Wonderland" by Joyce Carol Oates.
Subjects: Dyslexia-friendly.; Historical Fiction.; Equipment.; Preloaded audiobook.; Assistive devices.; Print disabilities.;
© , MegaVoice.

Silence for the dead / by St. James, Simone.;
"In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and tormenting dreams. But something more is going on at Portis House--its plaster is crumbling, its plumbing makes eerie noises, and strange breaths of cold waft through the empty rooms. It's known that the former occupants left abruptly, but where did they go? And why do the patients all seem to share the same nightmare, one so horrific that they dare not speak of it? Kitty finds a dangerous ally in Jack Yates, an inmate who may be a war hero, a madman or maybe both. But even as Kitty and Jack create a secret, intimate alliance to uncover the truth, disturbing revelations suggest the presence of powerful spectral forces. And when a medical catastrophe leaves them even more isolated, they must battle the menace on their own, caught in the heart of a mystery that could destroy them both"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Historical fiction.; Nurses; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;

Ithaca [videorecording] / by Gordon, Molly.; Linklater, Hamish.; Ryan, Meg.; Saroyan, William,1908-1981.Human comedy.; Shepard, Sam,1943-; Shepherd, Scott.; Momentum Pictures,publisher.;
Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Molly Gordon, Hamish Linklater, Scott Shepherd.Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Coming-of-age films.; Feature films.; Bicycle messengers; Families; Teenage boys; World War, 1939-1945;
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A day of fallen night / by Shannon, Samantha,1991-author.;
"The stunning, standalone prequel to the New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree. In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Orange Tree and into the lives of four women, showing us a course of events that shaped their world for generations to come. Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow - exactly where she wants to be. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate. When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat."--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Dragons; Imaginary places; Imaginary wars and battles; Magic; Queens;

Touching the sky / by Peterson, Tracie.;
LSC
Subjects: Love stories.; Historical fiction.; Christian fiction.; Sisters; Soldiers;
© c2012., Bethany House,

Library for the war-wounded : a novel / by Helfer, Monika,1947-author.; Davidson, Gillian,translator.; translation of:Helfer, Monika,1947-Vati.English.;
"Inspired by the author's family history, Library for the War-Wounded transports readers to the aftermath of World War II, uncovering the life of Helfer's father, Josef. Born with the stigma of illegitimacy, he found solace in books, and his education was eventually funded by the Catholic Church. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he witnessed the horrors of the Eastern Front and returned from the war an amputee. He married his nurse and brought his family to the high, idyllic slopes of the Austrian Alps, where he took a position as manager of a convalescent home for war-wounded. Josef was a man of many mysteries. To his daughter Monika, none was greater than his obsession with the home's unlikely and remarkable library, his great treasure and comfort as the country barrels away from the memory of war. He will stop at nothing to save it-even when it tears apart his family."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Libraries; Veterans; World War, 1939-1945;

A game of thrones / by Martin, George R. R.,author.;
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Civil war; Courts and courtiers; Imaginary places; Kings and rulers;

The good German : a novel / by Bock, Dennis,1964-author.;
In November 1939, a German anti-fascist named Georg Elser came as close to assassinating Adolf Hitler as anyone ever had. In this gripping novel of alternate history, he doesn't just come close--he succeeds. But he could never have imagined the terrible consequences that would follow from this act of heroism. Hermann Göring, masterful political strategist, assumes the Chancellery and quickly signs a non-aggression treaty with the isolationist president Joseph Kennedy that will keep America out of the war that is about to engulf Europe. Göring rushes the German scientific community into developing the atomic bomb, and in August 1944, this devastating new weapon is tested on the English capital. London lies in ruins. The war is over, fascism prevails in Europe, and Canada, the Commonwealth holdout in the Americas, suffers on as a client state of the Soviet Union. Georg Elser, blinded in the A-bombing of London, is shipped to Canada and quarantined in a hospice near Toronto called Mercy House. Here we meet William Teufel, a German-Canadian boy who in the summer of 1960 devises a plan that he hopes will distance himself from his German heritage and, unwittingly, brings him face to face with the man whose astonishing act of heroism twenty-one years earlier set the world on its terrifying new path. In this page-turning narrative, Bock has created an utterly compelling and original novel of historical speculation in the vein of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, John Wyndham's The Chrysalids and Philip K. Dick's cult classic The Man in the High Castle.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Alternative histories (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946; World War, 1939-1945;

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