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10 best books like I'll Be Seeing You (Suzanne Hayes): Letters from Skye, The Roses Underneath, Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942, Eyes Like Mine, All the Light There Was, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society, A Certain Summer, The Keeper of Secrets, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves, Friendship Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Letters from Skye
AuthorJessica Brockmole
ISBN0345542606
A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir the heart.
 
March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth...
The Roses Underneath
AuthorC.F. Yetmen
It is August 1945 in Wiesbaden, Germany. With the country in ruins, Anna Klein, displaced and separated from her beloved husband, struggles to support herself and her six-year old daughter Amalia. Her job typing forms at the Collecting Point for the US Army’s Monuments Men is the only thing keeping...
Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942
AuthorJoyce Dennys
ISBN1408802813
Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable Lady B, who writes to Hitler every night to tell him precisely...
Eyes Like Mine
AuthorLauren Cecile
ISBN1508457727
She is a wealthy Negro aristocrat living in Jim Crow Washington D.C. He is a Jewish lawyer who fled Nazi Germany. When Justinia and Julius meet at an NAACP convention, they defy family and societal expectations and change each other's lives forever. Their story, told in alternating viewpoints with...
All the Light There Was
AuthorNancy Kricorian
ISBN0547939949
All the Light There Was is the story of an Armenian family’s struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris in the 1940s—a lyrical, finely wrought tale of loyalty, love, and the many faces of resistance.

On the day the Nazis march down the rue de Belleville, fourteen-year-old Maral Pegorian...
Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society
AuthorAmy Hill Hearth
ISBN1451675232
A brilliant debut novel from a New York Times bestselling author about a transplanted wife from Boston who arrives in Florida in the 1960s, starts a literary salon, and shakes up the status quo.

In 1962, Jackie Hart moved to Naples, Florida, from Boston with her husband and children. Wanting...
A Certain Summer
AuthorPatricia Beard
ISBN1476710260
A richly evocative debut novel set in an exclusive summer colony along the east coast during the aftermath of World War II—for fans of Kate Morton and Jamie Ford.

"Nothing ever changes at Wauregan.” That mystique is the tradition of the idyllic island colony off the shore of Long Island,...
The Keeper of Secrets
AuthorJulie Thomas
ISBN0062240307
Beautiful and mysterious, this debut novel follows a priceless violin across five decades-from WWII to Stalinist Russia to the gilded international concert halls of today-and reveals the loss, love, and secrets of the families who owned it.

A priceless violin. A family torn apart. A decision...
Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
AuthorKristina McMorris
ISBN1496725840
In this poignant and evocative novel by New York Times bestselling author Kristina McMorris, a country is plunged into conflict and suspicion—forcing a young woman to find her place in a volatile world.

Los Angeles, 1941. Violinist Maddie Kern's life seemed destined to unfold with the...
Friendship Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
AuthorLisa Verge Higgins
ISBN1455500313
TOP THREE REASONS TO VISIT EUROPE:
1. Explore foreign cultures
2. Sample outstanding food
3. Desperately flee impending personal crisis

Lenny left his wife, Monique, a bucket list of things they'd dreamed of doing together before cancer took his life. For four years, she ignored...
Bristol House
AuthorBeverly Swerling
ISBN0670025933
In the tradition of Kate Mosse, a swiftly-paced mystery that stretches from modern London to Tudor England

In modern-day London, architectural historian and recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall hopes to turn her life around and restart her career by locating several long-missing pieces...
The Last Telegram
AuthorLiz Trenow
ISBN1402279450
Decades ago, as Nazi planes dominated the British sky, eighteen-year-old Lily Verner made a terrible mistake. She’s tried for decades to forget, but now an unexpected event pulls her back to the 1940s British countryside. She finds herself remembering the brilliant, lustrous colors of the silk...
The Last Jump: A Novel of World War II
AuthorJohn E. Nevola
J.P. Kilroy, a middle-aged divorced journalist, regrets ignoring his mother’s only deathbed request. Even her last letter, which exposed the existence of a dark family secret, could not motivate him to reconcile with the father who abandoned them thirty years ago. When he receives an invitation...
Motherland
AuthorWilliam Nicholson
ISBN1451687133
You come from a long line of mistakes, Guy Caulder tells his daughter Alice. My mother married the wrong man. Her mother did the same.

At the end of a love affair, Alice journeys to Normandy to meet Guy's mother, the grandmother she has never known. She tells her granddaughter that, in spite of...
The Woman Who Heard Color
AuthorKelly Jones
ISBN0425243052
Lauren O'Farrell is an "art detective" who made it her mission to retrieve invaluable works stolen by the Nazis during the darkest days of World War II. Her quest leads her to the Manhattan apartment of elderly Isabella Fletcher, a woman who lives in the shadow of a terrible history-years ago her mother...
The Melody of Secrets
AuthorJeffrey Stepakoff
ISBN1250001099
Jeffrey Stepakoff's The Melody of Secrets is an epic love story set against the 1960s U.S. space program, when deeply-buried secrets could threaten not just a marriage, but a country.

Maria was barely eighteen as WWII was coming to its explosive end. A brilliant violinist, she tried...
The Other Side of The Bridge
AuthorKatharine Swartz
Ava Lancet has lost her job, her marriage, and her baby when she discovers she has inherited her grandmother’s dilapidated farmhouse in a tiny village in central Greece. With the kind of emotional impulsiveness that has frustrated her stony-faced husband for years, she decides to move there and...
A Fractured Conjuring
AuthorMartin Reaves
ISBN1612966225
Down twisted corridors of thought, something waits. Over broken pathways of memory, it pursues. Though unseen, it is close enough to touch...

Critically-acclaimed author Chloe Sender is lost. Lost in an abusive past; lost within her fragmented mind. And she is lost within the pages of her...
Happy Any Day Now
AuthorToby Devens
ISBN0451418980
Every five years my mother had her fortune read by Lulu Cho, owner of the Golden Lotus Massage Club for Men. Now it was my turn. And Lulu predicted one hurricane of a future for me!

Judith Soo Jin Raphael’s childhood was shaped by her hardworking immigrant mother, her father who left them, and...
Fire in the Stars
AuthorBarbara Fradkin
ISBN1459732391
A former aid worker returns home haunted by her time in Africa and channels her pain into a murder investigation that’s all too personal.


After surviving a horrific trauma in Nigeria, international aid worker Amanda Doucette returns to Canada to rebuild her life and her shaken ideals....
Louise's War
AuthorSarah R. Shaber
ISBN0727880403
The first in a new series from the author of the ‘Simon Shaw’ books - 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington DC to work as a clerk for the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA. When, while filing, she discovers a document concerning the husband of a college friend, Rachel Bloch,...
Shake Down the Stars
AuthorFrances Donnelly
ISBN0312018193
The title of Frances Donnelly's book, "Shake Down the Stars," is one of the best titles I've seen - ever! That's what drew me to this tale of three women from the English village of Musgrave, all at different levels of society. Their lives meet and separate and intertwine throughout World War II, sometimes...
Finding Mrs. Warnecke: The Difference Teachers Make
AuthorCindi Rigsbee
ISBN0470486783
Finding Mrs. Warnecke tells the inspiring story of Cindi Rigsbee, a three-time Teacher of the Year, and Barbara Warnecke, the first-grade teacher who had a profound and lasting impact on Cindi's life. Cindi, an insecure child who craved positive attention, started her first-grade year with a teacher...
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