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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLondon Belles
Annie Groves · 433 pages
London Belles is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence -- as well as love, passion and heartbreak -- for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.
The Bomb Girls
Daisy Styles · 448 pages
Meet Molly: An American Girl
Valerie Tripp · 58 pages
While her father is away fighting in World War II, Molly finds her life full of change as she eats terrible vegetables from the victory garden and plans revenge on her brother for ruining her Halloween.
Chocolate Girls
Annie Murray · 528 pages
Rose Under Fire
Elizabeth Wein · 414 pages
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
Citadel
Kate Mosse · 689 pages
"Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse's eagerly awaited Citadel is a mesmerizing World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives to save their homeland and protect astonishing secrets buried in time in France, 1942. In Carcassonne, a colorf
Mastering the Art of French Murder
Colleen Cambridge · 262 pages
The Ship of Brides
Jojo Moyes · 496 pages
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Aust
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Light a Penny Candle
Maeve Binchy · 542 pages
As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling-who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her support
China Dolls
Lisa See · 401 pages
"The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story of secrets and sacrifice, love and betrayal, prejudice and passion, China Dolls reveals a rich portrait of female friendship, as three young women navigate the "Chop Suey Circuit"--America's extravagan
Cinderella's Dress
Shonna Slayton · 322 pages
"Being seventeen during World War II is tough. Finding out you're the next keeper of the real Cinderella's dress is even tougher. Kate simply wants to create window displays at the department store where she's working, trying to help out with the war effort. But when long-lost relatives from Poland arrive with a steamer trunk they claim holds the Cinderella's dress, life gets complicated. Now, wit
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
Jennifer Ryan · 401 pages
Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.
The Midwife of Auschwitz
Anna Stuart · 348 pages
The Victory Club
Robin Lee Hatcher · 350 pages
Four women, working at an air field during World War II, face loneliness, hardship, and difficult choices, and experience the comforts of friendship while their loved ones are abroad fighting the war.
The Last Secret of the Deverills
Santa Montefiore · 452 pages
Het is inmiddels 1939 en de vriendschap tussen de drie vrouwen, Kitty, Bridie en Celia, is inmiddels lang niet meer zo sterk als eerst.
The Orphan's Tale
Pam Jenoff · 363 pages
Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.
I'll Be Seeing You
Suzanne Hayes, Loretta Nyhan, Suzanne Palmieri · 313 pages
Two women forge a friendship during World War II through their letters to each other, allowing them to survive the loneliness and uncertainty of waiting on the home front and giving them the courage to face the battles raging in their very own backyards.
Stepping on the Cracks
Mary Downing Hahn · 224 pages
Paper Hearts
Meg Wiviott · 352 pages
"Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that?s based on a true story."--Amazon.com.
The Gathering Storm
Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
As Nazi forces tighten the noose, Loralei Kepler, daughter of a German resistance leader, must flee her beloved Germany. But is any place safe from Adolf Hitler's evil grasp? Loralei's harrowing flight leads her into the arms of needy child refugees, who have sacrificed everything in exchange for their lives, and toward a mysterious figure, who closely guards an age-old secret. Explore the romance
Day After Night
Anita Diamant · 294 pages
Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.
The Girl Under the Olive Tree
Leah Fleming · 443 pages
May 1941, and the island of Crete is captured by the Germans bringing together two very different women and changing their lives forever...May 1941 and the island of Crete is invaded by Paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping PoWs, sheltered by the Cretan villagers. Sixty years later, Lois We