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Christmas with the Cornish Girls by Betty Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1941. The bombs still fall, but in St. Ives Christmas is finally approaching for the Cornish Girls…With the war ongoing, Lily is feeling anything but festive. That is, until Eva asks if she’ll join her in working at an officers’ convalescent home, lifting her spirits no end.Eva came to St. Ives to be near the man who almost gave his life to protect hers... -
![Wartime for the District Nurses by Annie Groves]()
Wartime for the District Nurses by Annie Groves
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe compelling new bestseller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey. Alice Lake and her friend Edith have had everything thrown at them in their first year as district nurses in London’s East End. From babies born out of wedlock to battered wives, they’ve had plenty to keep them occupied... -
![A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar]()
A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLibrarian note: Alternate cover edition of: 9780976395096Set on the eve of World War II, A Mind at Peace captures the anxieties of a Turkish family facing the difficult reality entrenched in the early republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923... -
![A Letter From Pearl Harbor by Anna Stuart]()
A Letter From Pearl Harbor by Anna Stuart
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNinety-eight-year-old Ginny McAllister’s last wish is for her granddaughter to complete a treasure hunt containing clues to her past. Clues that reveal her life as one of the first female pilots at Pearl Harbor, and a devastating World War Two secret... -
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![The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, Joseph Papp]()
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, Joseph Papp
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsTHE NORMAL HEART is the explosive drama about our most terrifying and troubling medical crisis today: the AIDS epidemic. It tells the story of very private lives caught up in the heartrendering ordeal of suffering and doom - an ordeal that was largely ignored for reasons of politics and majority morality...Categorized as:
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![The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali]()
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown... -
![Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi]()
Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPerhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines her life as she contends with the political corruption, authoritarianism, and poverty of the village... -
![شرق المتوسط by عبد الرحمن منيف]()
شرق المتوسط by عبد الرحمن منيف
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsهل يمكن أن ترمم إرادة انسان لم تعد تربطه بالحياة رابطة؟ أنا ذاك الإنسان. لا لست انساناً، السجن في أيامه الولى حاول أن يقتل جسدي. لم أكن أتصور أني أحتمل كل ما فعلوه، لكن احتملت. كانت إرادتي هي وحدها التي تتلقى الضربات، وتردها نظرات غاضبة وصمتاً. وظللت كذلك. لم أرهب، لم أتراجع: الماء البارد، ليكن. التعليق لمدة سبعة أيام، ليكن. التهديد بالقتل والرصاص حولي تناثر، ليكن. كانت ارادتي هي التي تقاوم... -
![The Uprising: Three Young Women Caught in the Fire That Changed America by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Suzanne Toren]()
The Uprising: Three Young Women Caught in the Fire That Changed America by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Suzanne Toren
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAround her the workers were screaming out prayers and curses.... She herself was sobbing tearlessly....Her only prayer was still, "I don't want to die." Oh, please, God, don't let me die, she thought. I've never even had a chance to live.Bella, newly arrived in New York from Italy, gets a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory... -
![The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah]()
The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFiction. African Studies. THE HEALERS tells a story of the conflict and regeneration focused on replacing toxic ignorance with the healing knowledge of African unity...Categorized as:
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![Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco]()
Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first in a trilogy about a Jewish family who flee Eastern Europe in the early 20th century and settle in Manchester, England. In the cold world of Manchester in 1905 the family Sandberg found the good things of life scarce and the hardships bitter as the chill northern winds. Sarah, the mother. A born survivor stranded in a land of strangers by the vicious tides of persecution... -
![The Midwives of Raglan Road by Jenny Holmes]()
The Midwives of Raglan Road by Jenny Holmes
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSummer, 1936. Newly trained midwife Hazel Price returns to the Yorkshire streets of her childhood, only to find that her modern methods and 'stuck-up' ways bring her into conflict with her family and other formidable residents of Raglan Road.Determined Hazel battles on, assisting with home deliveries and supporting the local GP... -
![The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell]()
The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs...Categorized as:
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![News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso]()
News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, the short-lived Emperor and Empress of Mexico...Categorized as:
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![The Telephone Girls of George Street by Jenny Holmes]()
The Telephone Girls of George Street by Jenny Holmes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1938. George Street in Bradford houses a gleaming, brand-new telephone exchange where fifteen girls work the complicated electrical switchboards. Among them are Cynthia, Norma and Millicent, who relish the busy, efficient atmosphere and the independence and friendship their jobs have given them... -
![The Unlocked Path: A Novel by Janis Robinson Daly]()
The Unlocked Path: A Novel by Janis Robinson Daly
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Unlocked Path presents and embraces a "New Woman" of the early 20th century: educated, career-minded, independent. In 1897 Philadelphia, after witnessing her aunt's suicide, Eliza Edwards vows to find ways to help and heal. Rejecting her mother's wishes for her society debut, Eliza enters medical college at a time when only five percent of doctors are female... -
![The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep by Juliet Butler]()
The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep by Juliet Butler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBased on a true story, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies.‘We’re waiting. I squeeze my eyes shut and dig my fingers into Masha’s neck where I’m holding her. She digs hers into mine. The curtains slowly open. I can’t see anything because the spotlight is on us, bright as anything and blinding me, but I can hear the gasp go up... -
![Cuckoo in the Nest by Michelle Magorian]()
Cuckoo in the Nest by Michelle Magorian
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs an evacuee, Ralph received a good education, but after the war Ralph's working-class father resents his education and his ambition to be an actor, and is furious when Ralph is sacked from the paper mill. The story traces Ralph's struggle to reconcile the disparate strands of his life...Categorized as:
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![Sue Barton, Student Nurse by Helen Dore Boylston]()
Sue Barton, Student Nurse by Helen Dore Boylston
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is the story of Sue Barton's first year of training as a probationer and then as a student nurse. Sue, with her red hair and eager spirit, is a very likable person - direct, outspoken, capable of mistakes, capable also of warm attachments and a courageous devotion to the service which she soon loves... -
![Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes]()
Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Where the Air Is Clear," Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit of Mexico, which undermines all institutions and shapes all destinies... -
![Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني]()
Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"In the course of my long travels I have never seen a city so devastated. After a long time I ventured out into the streets. Death, cold and heavy, hung in the air. Walls have no value here, doors have been eliminated. No one is certain that they will see another day...Categorized as:
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![For Those Who Dare by John Anthony Miller]()
For Those Who Dare by John Anthony Miller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEast Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed, and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin that needs her, Kirstin knows she has to go.Tony Marino is an American writer living in West Berlin...Categorized as:
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![Across a Broken Shore by Amy Trueblood]()
Across a Broken Shore by Amy Trueblood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Winter 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection.American Library Association's 2020 Rise Project for Best Feminist Books in Children's Literature. Gold Medal Winner for Historical Fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards.2020 Gold Medal for YA Historical Fiction - Moonbeam Children's Awards The last thing eighteen-year-old Wilhelmina “Willa” MacCarthy wants is to be a nun...Categorized as:
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![Sue Barton, Superintendent of Nurses by Helen Dore Boylston]()
Sue Barton, Superintendent of Nurses by Helen Dore Boylston
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew softcover edition. Unabridged, original text, original cover art. Sue Barton, Superintendent of Nurses. With her student days behind her and her career well underway, Sue and Bill, now married, together try to run a little hospital in the New England hills that was presented to the community by the town's wealthiest citizen, Elias Todd...Categorized as:
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![The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel by John A. Williams]()
The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel by John A. Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGenerally recognized as one of the most important novels of the tumultuous 1960s, The Man Who Cried I Am vividly evokes the harsh era of segregation that presaged the expatriation of African American intellectuals. Through the eyes of journalist Max Reddick, and with penetrating fictional portraits of Richard Wright and James Baldwin, among other historical figures, John A... -
![The Colour Of Memory by Geoff Dyer]()
The Colour Of Memory by Geoff Dyer
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in THE COLOUR OF MEMORY leads past the winning post. "We're not lost" one of his hero's friend's says, "we're virtually extinct"... -
![The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover]()
The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsApril, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four...Categorized as:
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![The Paris Gown by Christine Wells]()
The Paris Gown by Christine Wells
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom perennially popular historical novelist Christine Wells, the delightful tale of three young women in 1950s Paris who share a single dazzling Christian Dior gown.1957: Three friends—Margot, Gina, and Charlotte—share an apartment above a bookstore in Paris.Margot is a twenty-two-year-old Australian having the time of her life...Categorized as:
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![Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde Johnson]()
Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde Johnson
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She goes to normal school and has normal friends. She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. But there Jean meets Sara, who welcomes her to 'Crip Camp' and nicknames her Spazzo... -
![Winter Kept Us Warm by Anne Raeff]()
Winter Kept Us Warm by Anne Raeff
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA bold and haunting novel that sets love against the brutality of WWII and post-war lifeUlli is a young woman, half-English and half-German, squatting in a dismal, empty Berlin apartment, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between Berlin-based GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them... -
![The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy]()
The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn The Devil I Know, award-winning writer Claire Kilroy delivers a delicious novel, a cautionary tale of financial excess set during the Irish property bubble.Tristram St. Lawrence has not been home for years—ever since he missed his mother’s deathbed in favor of going on a bender, the thirteenth Earl of Howth is not welcome in the family castle... -
![The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks]()
The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRussell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean... -
![City of Hope by Kate Kerrigan]()
City of Hope by Kate Kerrigan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn uplifting, inspiring and heartwarming story of a woman truly ahead of her time, City of Hope is the heart-rending but inspiring follow-up to Ellis Island It is the 1930s and when her beloved husband, John, suddenly dies, young Ellie Hogan decides to leave Ireland and return to New York. She hopes that the city's vibrancy will distract her from her grief...Categorized as:
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![True Believers by Kurt Andersen, Vanessa Hart]()
True Believers by Kurt Andersen, Vanessa Hart
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn "True Believers, " Kurt Andersen--the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of "Heyday" and "Turn of the Century"--delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet...Categorized as:
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![The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession by Jennifer Chiaverini]()
The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession by Jennifer Chiaverini
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women’s March, an enthralling historical novel of the woman’s suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote...Categorized as:
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![The Postman by Antonio Skármeta]()
The Postman by Antonio Skármeta
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Postman (Il Postino) is a bittersweet tale of first love ignited by the power and passion of Pablo Neruda's timeless poetry.Unlike the other men of his village, Mario balks at the prospect of life as a fisherman, choosing instead to become the postman for a beautiful island, just off the mainland... -
![The Zafarani Files: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني]()
The Zafarani Files: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn unknown observer is watching the residents of a small, closely-knit neighborhood in Cairo's old city, making notes of their comings and goings, their quarrels, their triumphs, descriptions of dress and biographical details...Categorized as:
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![The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett]()
The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the fall of 1916, America prepares for war—but in the town of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium...Categorized as:
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![The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison]()
The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison
Rated: 2.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn the first page of The Book Borrower, Toby Ruben and Deborah Laidlaw meet in 1975 in a New York City playground, where the two women are looking after their babies. Deborah lends Toby a book, Trolley Girl,--a memoir about a long ago trolley strike and three Jewish sisters, one a fiery revolutionary--that will disappear and reappear throughout the twenty-two years these women are friends...Categorized as:
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