What to read while waiting for...

All the Light We Cannot See By Doerr, Anthony 2014-05 - Scribner Book Company 9781476746586 Check Our Catalog Awards: National Book Awards (2014) From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. …More

Are you patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for that best seller?  Here are some suggestions!

Charlotte Gray By Faulks, Sebastian 2000-07 - Vintage Books USA 9780375704550 Check Our Catalog From bestselling author Sebastian Faulks comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into …More

In the Wolf's Mouth By Foulds, Adam 2014-06 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374175825 Check Our Catalog A new novel by the author Julian Barnes called "one of the best British writers to emerge in the last decade" Set in North Africa and Sicily at the end of World War II, "In the Wolf's Mouth" follows the Allies' botched "liberation" attempts as they chased the Nazis north toward the Italian mainland. Focusing on the experiences of two young soldiers--Will Walker, an English field security …More

The Innocents Within By Daley, Robert 2004-12 - Ballantine Books 9780345482204 Check Our Catalog Based on a little-known true story, The Innocents Within offers a unique and untold view of wartime France and the Holocaust. The scene is the high plateau of the Massif Central. The time is the bitter winter of 1944. In Le Lignon, a Protestant village in a Catholic country, and in similar villages nearby, Jews both foreign and French have been given shelter, food, and false papers prepared by …More

Suite Francaise By Nemirovsky, Irene Translator Smith, Sandra, Dr 2007-04 - Vintage Books USA 9781400096275 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, it is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art. …More