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2023.
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English
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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 to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese...
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"Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist at the prisoner-of-war...
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"China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those in her charge. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain...
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Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in...
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"Inspired by true stories, The Long March Home is a gripping coming-of-age tale of friendship, sacrifice, and the power of unrelenting hope. Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire. Life in the Philippines seems like paradise - until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: Imperial Japan has bombed Pearl...
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Attack on Titan volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming human-kind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about change everything''--
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"For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Orphan Train, the author of the "thought-provoking" (Library Journal, starred review) and "must-read" (PopSugar) novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating tale of three young people divided by the horrors ofWorld War II and their journey back to one another. During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked...
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.
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Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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"Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died...
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Feldheim Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In Escape!, the partisans arrived in Japan, but part of the group was arrested and sent to a maximum security prison. They managed to escape, reunited with the group, and eventually returned to Russia--except Meshulam'ke, who was captured by the Japanese. Four members of the group returned to Japan and saved Meshulam. But they are still far from safe! How can they stop the Nazis from producing an atomic bomb? Where can they hide from a relentless...
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A World War II novel about a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies"--
"Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb...
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Publisher
Feldheim Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"In Escape!, the partisans returned to Germany and stole the Nazi plans for an atomic bomb. During the daring and risky mission, they found an antique golden mezuzah cover in the Nazi's Tunnel of Stolen Gold. They trained for further missions and, having joined U.S. naval forces heading out to the Pacific, were attacked by the Japanese. Meanwhile, Moshe Heiman, an innocent Jewish refugee in Japan was found guilty of being a spy. He was sent with the...
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After Dunkirk volume 4
Publisher
Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The world is at war. Japan has just attacked Pearl Harbor. In London, Prime Minister Churchill disappears. In Washington, President Roosevelt faces an alliance with conflicting objectives. In the Soviet Union, dictator Joseph Stalin watches a Nazi onslaught maul his country. From their isolated perch on Sark Island, feudal rulers Dame Marian Littlefield and her husband oppose their German occupiers in the only way left to them - through a battle...
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A time to serve volume Book 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"As WWII rages, paratrooper Clyde Cooper sets sail for Panama. Expecting to be reunited with his cousin, Shawn, Clyde instead arrives to find his patriotic cousin missing. The Army brass share only scant information regarding Shawn's last known whereabouts. Is he a casualty of war? Or is the military purposefully covering up his fate? Meanwhile, back at home, Abigail struggles to escape her overbearing father and visits an old friend in Texas who...
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A time to serve volume Book 3
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Flung to the far corners of the earth, the Cooper family fights for survival in a world devastated by war. Locked in a gut-wrenching struggle against a desperate and relentless enemy, Clyde Cooper and his team of vaunted paratroopers engage in a bloody campaign that pushes each man to his limits. The war may have begun as an idyllic romp in Australia―but the terrifying reality has now become inescapable. Meanwhile, Clyde’s cousin Shawn fights...