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At the end of Frances Itani's Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted "Tell," a baby is adopted by a young Deseronto couple. Eighteen years on, the baby, Hanora, now a young woman, is told about her adoption, but given no details. As a second world war looms, Hanora is determined to uncover the mysteries of her identity. This quest will take her across the ocean and headlong into the tumult of Europe. Itani's vivid storytelling, infused with music and...
2) Bitter seeds
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Milkweed Triptych novels volume 1
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When the Nazis run missions with a man who walks through walls and a woman who uses her knowledge of the future to twist the present, secret agent Raybould Marsh must rally Britain's secret warlocks to hold an impending World War II invasion at bay.
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Night soldiers volume 9
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From Alan Furst, bestselling author of Blood of Victory and Dark Voyage, comes a thrilling saga of everyday people forced by their hearts' passion to fight in the war against tyranny. Paris, a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel. But this is no romantic tragedy -- it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and is meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine émigré newspaper. Carlo...
4) Stateless
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When Stella North is chosen to represent Britain in Europe's first air race for young people, she knows all too well how high the stakes are. As the only participating female pilot, it'll be a constant challenge to prove she's a worthy competitor. But promoting peace in Europe feels empty to Stella when civil war is raging in Spain and the Nazis are gaining power -- and when, right from the start, someone resorts to cutthroat sabotage to get ahead...
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Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists.
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