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Fiction (138), World War II (39), Non-fiction (32), read 2017 (21), read 2020 (19), read 2021 (17), fiction (14), non-fiction (14), read 2018 (11), read 2024 (11), BB (10), read 2022 (10), read 2019 (10), read 2023 (10), read 2025 (9), read 2012 (8), read 2026 (6), read 2016 (6), read 2013 (5), read 2015 (4), read 2014 (4), read 2011 (2), Read 2024 (2), BB (The caretaker of a small town North Carolina cemetery reunites local Korean War hero with shunned wife and baby) (1), young lower-class girl goes to Cambridge (1), BB (The rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the Indiana woman who helped stop it) (1), BB (9-year-old Salvadoran travels with strangers through Guatemala and Mexico and on third attempt is reunited with his parents in AZ and CA) (1), read 2024 (Virginia public defender successfully gets serial criminal off his murder charge and then turns the table on him) (1), read 2024 (A young socialite woman from Manhattan and a farm girl from Indiana become fast friends as Donut Dollies in Europe during WWII) (1), read 2024 (A young American mother and a young French mother survive a bombing in WWII with devastating effects) (1), and begins private investigator career in London (1), serves as nurse in WWI (1), read 2024 (F) Bright (1), (Trans teen girl falls for hockey-playing (1), straight boy in smalltown New Hampshire) (1), (11-year-old girl is evacuated to the US during WWII and is afterward torn between her Massachusetts and UK families.) (1), BB (Michigan cherry orchard farm wife tells her three daughters of her brief acting career and love affair with an aspiring actor) (1), overcomes cruel childhood memories (1), and becomes the gatherer of stories for her clients) (1), England ditches ne'er-do-well husband (1), BB (40-something house cleaner in Cambridge (1), BB (Jewish woman befriends Negro community in 1930's Pennsylvania) (1), and his wife Meghan (1), BB (no one liked this book) (1), talks about his childhood (1), falls into drug world (1), but survives rehabilitation through his drawing talents) (1), BB (Proud (1), wealthy South American woman (1), born in 1920 during Spanish influenza (1), dies in 2020 during the Coronavirus pandemic) (1), read 2023 (Prince Harry (1), the Duke of Sussex (1), the death of his beloved mother (1), BB (Two teen game designers share a friendship and business partnership over 20 years) (1), his Army career (1), BB (Young naive nurse volunteers for service in Vietnam (1), the Duchess of Sussex) (1), BB (4 Italian sisters from Chicago live intertwined lives) (1), (Black librarian passes as white to help build the JP Morgan Library in NYC) (1), read 2023 (Brilliant daughter of deceased physicists helps identify a German spy in Higgins boat factory during World War II) (1), educational levels (1), read 2023 (Local women from an English coastal village help keep morale up during WWII by forming a community choir.) (1), read 2024 (Journalist in London returns home to Australia and helps unravel the mysteries of a family tragedy) (1), read 2025 (Retired Chicago police detective helps small Irish town get rid of ner-do-well father of teenage girl) (1), only to be resentful and angry upon her return home.) (1), BB (young slave on Virginia plantation uses his power to help friends escape on the Underground) (1), read 2025 (Two young Vietnamese cousins strive to get out of the rut of depression (1), and family problems.) (1), BB (One of 4 teenage best friends becomes a successful artist and passes his world-renowned painting on 25 years later to a struggling young artist) (1), BB (58-year-old female (1), sandwiched between her two young adult children and her aging parents (1), spends her annual vacation week at Cape Cod with them) (1), read 2025 (Young American woman inherits a Paris apartment that holds secrets of her grandmother (1), who was part of the French Resistance.) (1), (Based on a real train accident at Paris' Montparnasse Station in 1895 (1), read 2025 (Britain successfully deceives Nazi Germany about invasion of Sicily during World War II.) (1), the author includes fictitious passengers of all classes (1), and gender.) (1), read 2026 (Florida lawyer and daughter of murdered law professor go after sitting judge who carried out a 20-year vendetta killing 9 people from his past) (1), BB (Retired law clerk writers letters and emails to her family (1), and people from her past) (1), BB (World-famous artist visits small Georgia town and bestows prints of locals' faces to them.) (1), BB (Two families in a small Ohio town endure infidelity but manage to stay friends) (1), BB (An 81-year-old Australian tells her story of falsely being accused of several murders.) (1), read 2025 (Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court relates his 3 years in captivity in Manila's Bilibid Prison during World War II.) (1), BB (Small town lawyer Bob Burgess becomes involved in a murder investigation while befriending local writer Lucy Barton.) (1), BB (Huck Finn's friend Jim tells the story from his (James) point of view of his escape from slavery) (1), read 2025 (Retired Chicago police detective moves to Ireland for peace and quiet and finds himself helping a young teenage girl look for her missing brother) (1), BB (Young (1), privileged German girl lives with her Nazi father's reputation for 92 years) (1), BB (Late 1780's midwife in Maine delivers babies (1), offers wise counsel (1), and stands up for her patients) (1), (Two nonagenarian British sisters tell stories of their WWII roles as FANYs and life after) (1), British expats are visited by Willie Maugham who uses their experiences [affairs and a murder trial] for his next book) (1), BB (Set in Malaya and South Africa (1), read 2023 (Two boyhood friends from Biloxi take divergent paths in crime and justice) (1), BB (Irish spinster daughter of small town doctor wishes to raise abandoned baby girl) (1), BB (The life of Frances Perkins (1), first female cabinet secretary (1), who fought for labor reform and served as FDR's Labor Secretary for 12 years and led the legislative fight to create the Social Security Administration) (1), BB (Young married literature professor intends to kill herself but is intrerrupted by an over-the-top wedding party) (1), BB (Two white teenage brothers escape the horrible treatment of an Indian orphanage to travel along the Mississippi River to search for family in St. Louis.) (1), BB (The lives of two Missouri teenagers (1), one a beekeeper named Saint and the other a one-eyed "pirate" called Patch (1), intersect through painting (1), and prison.) (1), BB (Young foster boy becomes high school football hero (1), read 2022 (based on true story of torpedoing of SS Benares carrying children from UK to Canada during WWII) (1), BB (Brilliant female chemist faces sexual assault and discrimination in the 1960's but also finds love and a tv cooking show career) (1), World War II (new librarian at American Library Paris 40 years later befriends teenage Montana girl and shares her life's mistakes) (1), read 2020 (Labor and delivery nurse in CT deals with racist couple) (1), read 2020 (In Depression-Era Kentucky Packhorse Librarians deliver books to those without) (1), read 2020 (injured Afghan war veteran doctor befriends runaway in NC) (1), read 2021 (reader of world events transports 10 yr old Kiowa captive to German relatives) (1), BB (the lives of 1875 slave girl and 1987 English teacher converge in Louisiana) (1), BB (eccentric widower and owner of small bookstore on Mass. island adopts baby girl and marries eccentric book sales rep) (1), read 2021 (NYU film student's family is murdered in Mexico (1), related to his brother's imprisonment) (1), BB (young desperate British girl finds her way in life by trying out other lives) (1), BB (Twin black sisters in Louisiana go their separate ways (1), read 2021 (resourceful young girl from SE Missouri is imprisoned in US prison during Civil War and falls in love with army interrogator) (1), BB (1791 London apothecary helps abused women kill male abusers (1), while present-day Ohio history buff visits London and uncovers apothecary's work) (1), BB (38-year-old woman leaves Texas Panhandle during 1930's Dust Bowl to save her children only to find life in California equally difficult) (1), BB (the life of Shakespeare and his wife and three children) (1), (Jewish girl stranded on Nazi-occupied Jersey Island falls in love with a German soldier) (1), read 2021 (rookie private eye solves multiple murders in coastal California town following WWII) (1), (three young women work as code breakers at Bletchley Park during WWII) (1), one in a white world and the other in a black world) (1), BB (Cantankerous 75 year old female professor lives life on her own terms) (1), read 2021 (three Dutch teenage girls join leftist resistance movement during WWII) (1), Britain (1), Memoir (1), WWII (1), drugs (1), Civil War (1), authors (1), law enforcement (1), memoir (1), independent (1), Young adult literature (1), read 2020 (slavery/abolitionism in South Carolina) (1), his family (1), fiction; read 2012 (1), non-fiction; read 2015 (1), read 2020 (North Carolina marsh girl) (1), read 2020 (1926 Australia lighthouse keeper) (1), BB (Young black babysitter for white blogger) (1), read 2020 (Philadelphia home brings sadness to sister and brother) (1), BB (Post Civil War Cherokee Nation West) (1), read 2021 (Danish family helps Jewish family escape the Nazis during WWII) (1), read 2021 (well-to-do young Polish woman befriends young Jewish woman hiding in the Krakow sewer during World War II) (1), BB (Missionary family with 4 daughters lives in Belgian Congo with varying effects on them) (1), friends (1), but fails in her bookshop business in a small Suffolk coastal town) (1), BB (Parallel stories of homing pigeon and commanding officer in WWI's Lost Battalion episode) (1), BB (Young maid is accused of murdering wealthy hotel guest) (1), BB (well-known author helps husband end his struggle with Alzheimer's by travelling to Switzerland to end his life with dignity with Dignitas) (1), BB (Young black violin virtuoso faces racism as he aspires to the top while at the same time searching for his stolen (1), bequeathed Stradivarius violin.) (1), read 2022 (Irish detective investigating the murder of a 12-year-old girl can't get past his history of surviving the disappearance of his two best friends when they were 12 years old) (1), read 2022 (Memoir of brothers Ron and Clint Howard and their acting careers) (1), read 2022 (WWII nurse cares for evacuated chldren at Agatha Christie's home) (1), read 2022 (Female prisoners bond together as seamstresses in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II) (1), BB (elderly black man is befriended by 17-year-old girl who cares for him in his final days in LA) (1), BB (time travel) (1), read 2022 (young woman suffers tragedy and challenges during life on a NH farm with husband and three children) (1), BB (Hollywood bombshell shares her life with budding journalist) (1), read 2022 (Dublin Undercover detective tries to solve his girlfriend's disappearance of 20 years earlier) (1), read 2022 (Two females--a US librarian in Portugal during World War II and a French Resistance member--work to get a French Jew and her small son to freedom in America) (1), read 2022 (Male serial killer is hunted by female Indian police detective) (1), BB (Young art auctioneer gets Covid and has vivid dreams she went to the Galapagos Islands.) (1), read 2022 (Middle-aged woman tries (1), BB (Three teens meet on a Kansas work farm and travel with an 8-year-old brother to NYC) (1), read 2021 (50-year-old divorcee moves back to Folly Beach (1), children of an alcoholic mother and a movie star father (1), writes a successful play about local lore (1), and meets her new husband) (1), BB (teenage Mexican girl escapes juvenile detention facility to flee to USA to see her mother and siblings) (1), BB (female bank robber/hostage taker spends an afternoon with 8 attendees at an apartment viewing) (1), BB (During Reconstruction two freedmen brothers are befriended by a Georgia farmer and his family) (1), BB (young Jewish female baker meets former SS officer who asks her to kill him for his actions during World War II) (1), read 2021 (two women hoping to escape horrific personal situations exchange airline boarding passes with tragic consequences) (1), read 2021 (4 surf-loving siblings (1), raise themselves on the beaches of Malibu) (1), and works in a bookshop inhabited by a ghost) (1), read 2021 (Young law clerk aids comatose Supreme Court Justice in finding the truth) (1), read 2021 (Female OSS agent in World War II outsmarts Nazis while working with French Resistance) (1), read 2021 (Canadian police inspector investigates a murder in a small rural village near Montreal) (1), BB (An artificial friend helps her charge in her teen years to survive with the help of the Sun) (1), BB (Tookie (1), an American Indian woman (1), gets out of prison (1), marries the cop who arrested her (1), BB (Four young Jewish siblings from New York live their lives with the predictions given to them by a psychic.) 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