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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.
With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen:

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2) All the light we cannot see: a novel

Author

Doerr, Anthony

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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21

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English

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From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a 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. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...

3) The rose code: a novel

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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English

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PW Daylight Book Club

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Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.

4) The Alice network: a novel

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War Era Fiction E-book selections

Pub. Date

2017.

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23

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English

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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...

5) The diamond eye: a novel

Author

Greenhorn Valley Book Club 2023

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English

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Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle...

6) The radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women

Author

Moore, Kate

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21

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English

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NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
War Era Fiction E-book selections

A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller!

For fans of Hidden Figures, comes the incredible true story of the women heroes who were exposed to radium in factories across the U.S. in the early 20th century, and their brave and groundbreaking battle to strengthen workers' rights, even as the fatal poison claimed their own lives...

In the dark years of the First World War, radium makes

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7) The book thief

Author

Zusak, Markus

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18

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English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Paperback, Pre-loaded Audiobook

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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

8) The hiding place

Author

Boom, Corrie te

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English

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BeSt of 2020!!!
Kirkus Reviews: The Best Non-Fiction Books of 2020
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: February 26, 2020
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"Every experience God gives us . . . is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see."--Corrie ten Boom. Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazis, and for their work they were...

9) The splendid and the vile: a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz

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Larson, Erik

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English

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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...

10) The things we cannot say

Author

Rimmer, Kelly

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English

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz

In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It's a decision that will alter her destiny ... and it's a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border,...

11) The tattooist of Auschwitz: a novel

Author

Morris, Heather

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9

Language

English

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NY Times
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
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The #1 International Bestseller & New York Times Bestseller

This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.

"The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary document, a story about the extremes

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12) The huntress: a novel

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English

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In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted... Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina's bravery and cunning will keep her...

13) The death cure

Author

Dashner, James

Series

Maze runner volume 3

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13

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English

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New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: April 25, 2022

As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.

14) The good left undone: a novel

Author

Trigiani, Adriana

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English

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Extraordinary Voyages
Voyages Extraordinaires

"From present day Viareggio to Glasgow during World War II, a multigenerational sweeping tale of love lost, family secrets, and reconciliation over decades from New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani"--

15) Around the world in eighty days

Author

Verne, Jules

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Language

English

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Paperback

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For the sake of a bet, an Englishman embarks on the journey of a lifetime, in this classic adventure tale from a master of the form
Phileas Fogg believes the world has gotten smaller. With the opening of a new railroad across India, he calculates it will now be possible to circumnavigate the globe in as few as eighty days. When the men at his club disagree, Fogg bets them the astonishing sum of £20,000—half his worth—that...

16) The only woman in the room

Author

Benedict, Marie

Language

English

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Bestselling author Marie Benedict reveals the story of a brilliant woman scientist only remembered for her beauty.

Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's

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17) The war that saved my life

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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9

Language

English

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NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback

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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

18) The scorch trials

Author

Dashner, James

Series

The Maze Runner

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15

Language

English

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After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in an experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.

19) The boy in the striped pajamas

Author

Boyne, John

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

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New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: July 5, 2021

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called Out-With in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

20) The forest of vanishing stars

Author

Harmel, Kristin

Language

English

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