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1) The women
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115 copies, 314 people are on the wait list.
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WILLI
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F WILLI
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F WILLI
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F WILLI
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F WILLI
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F WILLI
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Eschewed by her wealthy Smith College classmates, a former scholarship student reluctantly volunteers to join a group of graduates who travel to Europe to help World War I French civilians before finding herself surrounded by desperate families in villages decimated by German bombs.
"April, 1917. The Smith College Club is looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine. Kate Moran reluctantly agrees to join the...
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5 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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"A novel based on the real life story of socialite spy Nancy Wake, about the astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII"-- Provided by publisher.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F QUINN
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F QUINN
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Central - Recently Returned
F QUINN
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F QUINN
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F QUINN
1 available
F QUINN
1 available
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11 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle...
5) Great circle
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SHIPS
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F SHIPS
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F SHIPS
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F SHIPS
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F SHIPS
3 available
F SHIPS
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5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MENGI
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F MENGI
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F MENGI
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F MENGI
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"A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." -- Salman Rushdie.
With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts...
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Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F ALDER
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F ALDER
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F ALDER
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F ALDER
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"Grace Steele and Eliza Jones may be from completely different backgrounds, but when it comes to the army, specifically the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), they are both starting from the same level. Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve. As these courageous women help to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CHIAV
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F CHIAV
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Westover - Recently Returned
F CHIAV
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F CHIAV
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"From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, 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 lead the Allies to victory"-- Provided by publisher.
June 1917. Arriving in France, General John Pershing found himself unable to communicate with troops...
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30 copies, 142 people are on the wait list.
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35 copies, 233 people are on the wait list.
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35 copies, 233 people are on the wait list.
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"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also...