Last Updated: August 30, 2024
The Comfort of Ghosts
by Jacqueline Winspear
London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion–the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and she’s deeply puzzled by the children’s reticence. Her quest to bring comfort and the promise of a future to the youngsters and to the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental aircraft. As Maisie picks apart the threads of her dead husband’s life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true.
The Lost Book of Bonn
by Brianna Labuskes
Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn’t stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. On Emmy’s first day at work, she finds a poetry collection by Rainer Maria Rilke, and on the title page is a handwritten dedication: “To Annelise, my brave Edelweiss Pirate.” Emmy is instantly intrigued by the story behind the dedication and becomes determined to figure out what happened.
The Rose Arbor
by Rhys Bowen
In 1968 London, obituary writer Liz Houghton, to break into the newsroom at a London newspaper, helps her best friend, a police officer, investigate a high-profile case and uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II that is linked to the recent disappearance of a young girl and a murder.
Only the Brave
by Danielle Steel
After tragedy strikes and her mother dies, Sophia Alexander, the daughter of a famous seurgeon in Berlin, becomes increasingly involved in the resistance, attending meetings of dissidents and helping however she can. Circumstances become increasingly dangerous and personal when Sophia assists her sister’s daring escape from Germany, as Theresa flees with her young husband and his family. Her father also begins to resist the regime, secretly healing those hiding from persecution, only to have his hospital burned to the ground. When he is arrested and sent to a concentration camp, Sophia is truly on her own, but more determined than ever to help.
The British Booksellers: A Novel of the Forgotten Blitz
by Kristy Cambron
Based on real accounts of Britain’s Land Girls and the Forgotten Blitz, The British Booksellers highlights the courageous choices we must make to live, love, and – in the face of all that tests us – fight for what matters most.
by Kirsty Manning
In a novel based on a true story of clandestine courage in World War II, prisoners of war risk their lives to secure evidence of Nazi atrocities.
Beyond that, The Sea
by Laura Spence-Ash
A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shy, irresistible young woman who will call them both her own.