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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
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Suffering from shell shock and memory loss from her time spent as a nurse's aide on a French battlefield during World War I, American Stella Bain is taken in by London surgeon August Bridge and his wife.
8) The red door
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the death of a Lancaster woman in the summer of 1920, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge links her demise to the disappearance of a man who was wrongly believed to have gone to serve in World War I.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
viii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how American military forces helped the Allies turn the tide of World War I and how the United States mobilized industry, trained soldiers, and promoted the war to the people at home.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
227 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When World War I descends upon a tiny Polish village, seven boys launch their own deadly battle for the right to be crowned king of the land.
Author
Series
A Bess Crawford mystery volume 11
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies are gathering in Paris, and already ominous signs of disagreement have appeared. Sister Bess Crawford, who has been working with the severely wounded in England in the war's wake, is asked to carry out a personal mission in Paris for a Matron at the London headquarters of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Paris Library meets The Flight Girls in this captivating historical novel about the sacrifice and courage necessary to live a life of honor, inspired by the first female volunteer librarians during World War I and the first women accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1914 France, a British soldier writes to his mother about the strange events of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, when German and Allied soldiers met on neutral ground to share songs, food, and fun. Includes historical notes and glossary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1917, when an arrogant and incompetent British commander turns up dead, a reluctant Joseph Reavley searches for the truth about the crime and about the twelve men accused of the murder, journeying behind enemy lines to find the individual responsible.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A young doctor and nurse fall in love while navigating the brutal realities of World War I at an underequipped and understaffed field hospital in the Carpathian Mountains.
18) Fall of giants
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find...
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Living in 1915 near Niagara Falls, seventeen-year-old Bess Heath, who is struggling to cope with the death of her sister and the disgrace of her family, and Tom Cole, whose sixth sense of the river and the falls aids him in daring rescues, are the key players in a transformative love story.