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• Absolution

  McDermott, Alice,

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  American women - American wives - have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ways We Hide

  McMorris, Kristina,

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  Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist--behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters Under the Rising Sun

  Morris, Heather (Screenwriter),

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  In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sunshine Girls

  Fader, Molly,

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  When tragedy strikes, forcing them down separate paths in 1967 Iowa, former nursing school roommates, against all odds, form a decades-long friendship that sees them through life's trials and tribulations until one snowy night leads their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beantown Girls

  Healey, Jane (Freelance journalist),

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  1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She'll work in city hall, marry her fiancé when he returns from the war, and settle down in the Boston suburbs. But when her fiancé is reported missing after being shot down in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The War Librarian

  Armstrong, Addison,

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  The Paris Library meets The Flight Girls in this captivating historical novel about the sacrifice and courage necessary to live a life of honor, inspired by the first female volunteer librarians during World War I and the first women…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Switchboard Soldiers

  Chiaverini, Jennifer,

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  A bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters of the Great War

  Feldman, Suzanne, 1958-

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  August 1914. While Europe enters a brutal conflict unlike any waged before, the Duncan household in Baltimore, Maryland, is the setting for a different struggle. Ruth and Elise Duncan long to escape the roles that society, and their…Read moreRead more of this annotation