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"When the Nazis march into Paris, an American woman uses her bookstore to aid the resistance, while a businessman chooses to sell his products to Germany-and send vital information home to the US. Can they work together for the higher good, or will it cost them everything they love?"--
As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. She struggles...
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Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval - even marry a man she doesn't love. Lt. Walter Novak - fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women - takes his last furlough home in California before being shipped overseas. Walt and Allie meet at a wedding and their love of music draws them together, prompting them to begin a correspondence that will change their lives.
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Major Jack Novak has never failed to meet a challenge - until he meets army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Doherty. In the army hospital after a plane crash, Jack makes winning Ruth's heart a top priority mission. But he has his work cut out for him. Not only is Ruth focused on her work in order to support her orphaned siblings back home, she also is determined not to give her heart to any man. Can Jack break down her defenses? Or will they go their separate...
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Sunrise at Normandy volume 3
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"1943. Private Clay Paxton trains hard with the U.S. Army Rangers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, determined to do his best in the upcoming Allied invasion of France. With his future stolen by his brothers' betrayal, Clay has only one thing to live for-- fulfilling the recurring dream of his death. Leah Jones works as a librarian at Camp Forrest, longing to rise above her orphanage upbringing and belong to the community, even as she searches for her real...
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Wings of the nightingale volume 1
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Lt. Mellie Blake is a nurse serving in the 802nd Medical Squadron. As part of a morale building program, she enters into an anonymous correspondence with Lt. Tom MacGilliver, an officer in the 908th Engineer Aviation Battalion. As letters crisscross the Atlantic, Tom and Mellie develop a unique friendship. And when both are transferred to Algeria, the two are poised to meet for the first time. Will they overcome their fears, and reveal who they are?...
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Lt. Raymond Novak prefers the pulpit to the cockpit, but at least his stateside job training B-17 pilots allows him the luxury of a personal life. As he courts Helen Carlisle, a young war widow and mother who conceals her pain under a frenzy of volunteer work, the sparks of their romance set a fire that flings them both into peril. At the peak of the air war over Europe, Ray leaves to fly a combat mission. Can their young love survive until blue skies...
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Wings of the nightingale volume 3
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Bold, sophisticated, and coy, Army Air Force flight nurse Lt. Kay Jobson collects hearts whever she flies, leaving men pining in airfields all across Europe. So how can ruggedly handsome C-47 pilot Lt. Roger Cooper be all but immune to her considerable charms? In fact, he seems to do everything he can to avoid her. Still, as they cross the skies between Italy and southern France, evacuating the wounded and delivering paratroopers and supplies,...
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Waves of freedom volume 3
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2017.
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"When fun-loving glamour girl Quintessa Beaumont learns the Navy has established the WAVES program for women, she enlists, determined to throw off her frivolous ways and contribute to the war effort. No-nonsense and hoping to make admiral, Lt. Dan Avery has been using his skills to fight German U-boats. The last thing he wants to see on his radar is a girl like Tess. For her part, Tess works hard to prove her worth in the Anti-Submarine Warfare Unit...
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Waves of freedom volume 2
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"Nothing slows Lillian Avery down -- not her personal challenges and certainly not America's entry into World War II. She finally has a chance to prove herself ans a pharmacist in Boston. The demands of her new job energize her. But society boy Ensign Archer Vandenberg's attentions only annoy -- even if he is her brother's best friend. During the darkest days of the war, Arch's destroyer hunts German U-boats in vain as the submarines sink dozens of...
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Wings of the nightingale volume 2
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2013.
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Serving as a flight nurse during World War II, Lieutenant Georgia Taylor finds her comfortable private life thrown into question by her tenuous bond with a pharmacist serviceman who harbors resentment over lingering grievances.
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"In WWII Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt assumes the identity of a common shipyard worker, rowing messages to Sweden for the Resistance. His life depends on keeping his secret hidden-a task that proves challenging when he meets Else Jensen, an American physicist who seems to see right through him"--
When the Germans march into Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt assumes a new identity so he can secretly row messages for the Danish Resistance across the...
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Sunrise at Normandy volume 1
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[2018]
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373 pages ; 22 cm.
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13) The sky above us
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Sunrise at Normandy volume 2
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[2019]
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375 pages ; 23 cm.
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Numbed by grief and harboring shameful secrets, Lt. Adler Paxton ships to England with the US 357th Fighter Group in 1943. Determined to become an ace pilot, Adler battles the German Luftwaffe in treacherous dogfights in the skies over France as the Allies struggle for control of the air before the D-day invasion. Violet Lindstrom wanted to be a missionary, but for now she serves in the American Red Cross, where she arranges entertainment for the...
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Sunrise at Normandy volume 1
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[2018]
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9 audio discs (10 hr., 30 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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American naval officer Wyatt Paxton works closely with Dorothy Fairfax of the Women's Royal Navy Service to prepare for the Allied invasion of France, but they are reluctant to yield to the love building between them.
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