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Next to Love

Ellen Feldman · 292 pages

Follows the stories of three young couples whose lives are irrevocably changed in the years following World War II, a period during which they struggle with difficult losses and witness profound transformations in American culture.

War and Its AftermathWorld War IIFemale FriendshipMultiple POV
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The Rose Code

Kate Quinn · 400 pages

World War IIFemale FriendshipWar and Its AftermathCharacter-Driven
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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.

World War IIWar and Its AftermathFemale FriendshipCharacter-Driven
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Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum · 496 pages

For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by

War and Its AftermathWorld War IICharacter-DrivenHistorical Fiction
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Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson · 424 pages

On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, home to salmon fishermen and strawberry farmers, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with murder. The year is 1954, and the shadow of World War II, with its brutality abroad and internment of Japanese Americans at home, hangs over the courtroom. Ishmael Cambers, who lost an arm in the Pacific war and now runs th

War and Its AftermathWorld War IICharacter-DrivenMultiple POV
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The Night Watch

Sarah Waters · 506 pages

A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the author of the Booker Prize finalist Fingersmith. Sarah Waters, whose works set in Victorian England have awards and acclaim and have reinvigorated the genres of both historical and lesbian fiction, returns with novel that marks a departure from ninetee

World War IIWar and Its AftermathMultiple POVCharacter-Driven
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The Nightingale Deluxe Edition

Kristin Hannah · 520 pages

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War and Remembrance

Herman Wouk · 1,121 pages

From the Middle East, to Moscow, to Hitler's death camps, the members of the Henry family face grave danger as they fight in the Second World War.

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini · 416 pages

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an

War and Its AftermathFemale FriendshipHistorical FictionMultiple POV
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Secrets of a Charmed Life

Susan Meissner · 480 pages

"When Oxford student Kendra Van Zant interviews 93-year-old artist Isabel MacFarland about her experience as a survivor of the London Blitz, Isabel is ready to share secrets she has kept for decades--beginning with who she really is"--

World War IIWar and Its AftermathCharacter-DrivenHistorical Fiction
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows · 278 pages

"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey,

War and Its AftermathWorld War IIMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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The German Wife

Kelly Rimmer · 464 pages

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The Aftermath

Rhidian Brook · 336 pages

Hamburg, 1946. In the British Occupied Zone, thousands of Germans are wandering the rubble, lost and homeless and Colonel Lewis Morgan is charge with overseeing the rebuilding of their devastated city. He is stationed in a grand house on the River Elbe; his wife and their only surviving son will soon be joining him there. But when Lewis meets the German owners of the house, he cannot bring himsel

War and Its AftermathWorld War IICharacter-DrivenMultiple POV
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All the Broken Places

John Boyne · 400 pages

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The Postmistress

Sarah Blake · 326 pages

Those who carry the truth sometimes bear a terrible weight... It is 1940. France has fallen. Bombs are dropping on London. And President Roosevelt is promising he won't send our boys to fight in "foreign wars."But American radio gal Frankie Bard, the first woman to report from the Blitz in London, wants nothing more than to bring the war home. Frankie's radio dispatches crackle across the Atlantic

World War IIWar and Its AftermathCharacter-DrivenMultiple POV
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Songs of Love and War

Santa Montefiore · 464 pages

Their lives were mapped out ahead of them. But love and war will change everything ... West Cork, Ireland, 1900. The year marks the start of a new century, and the birth of three very different women: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the Irish cook and Celia Deverill, Kitty's flamboyant English cousin. Together they grow up in the d

CastleFemale FriendshipWar and Its AftermathMultiple POV
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The Reader

Bernhard Schlink · 224 pages

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Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernieres · 437 pages

The Greek island of Cephallonia - peaceful, remote, famed for its beauty, its light, its mythic history - and only just beginning to enter the twentieth century when the tide of World War II rolls onto its shores. This is the setting for Louis de Bernieres's lyrical, heartbreaking, and hilarious chronicle of the days and nights of the island's inhabitants over fifty tumultuous years. "It was an i

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The Welsh Girl

Peter Ho Davies · 352 pages

This novel traces a perilous wartime romance as it explores the bonds of love and duty that hold us to family, country, and ultimately, our fellow man.

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Everyone Brave is Forgiven

Chris Cleave · 464 pages

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The White Lady

Jacqueline Winspear · 321 pages

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The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan · 332 pages

Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have neve

War and Its AftermathFemale FriendshipWorld War IIMultiple POV
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The Woman in the Green Dress

Tea Cooper · 336 pages

Widowed ProtagonistWar and Its AftermathHistorical FictionCharacter-Driven
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Dungeon

Svetlana Velmar-Jankovic · 219 pages

Widowed ProtagonistWorld War IIWar and Its AftermathHistorical Fiction

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