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9 best books like The Hours Count (Jillian Cantor): We Must Be Brave, Lost Roses, The Lost Girls of Paris, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Wunderland, Mistress of the Ritz, The Movement of Stars, The Far Side of the Sky, The Innocents

We Must Be Brave
AuthorFrances Liardet
ISBN0735218862
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.

"This stirring debut will work its way indelibly into...
Lost Roses
AuthorMartha Hall Kelly
ISBN1524796379
The runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. This sweeping new novel, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow...
The Lost Girls of Paris
AuthorPam Jenoff
ISBN0778330273
From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female spies during World War II.

1946, Manhattan

Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war....
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
AuthorKim Michele Richardson
ISBN1492671525
In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across...
Wunderland
AuthorJennifer Cody Epstein
ISBN0525576908
East Village, 1989
Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes...
Mistress of the Ritz
AuthorMelanie Benjamin
ISBN0399182241
A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife...
The Movement of Stars
AuthorAmy Brill
ISBN1594487448
A love story set in 1845 Nantucket, between a female astronomer and the unusual man who understands her dreams.

It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised, where simplicity...
The Far Side of the Sky
AuthorDaniel Kalla
ISBN0765332337
November 9, 1938: Kristallnacht, the Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai, a city that becomes the last haven for thousands of desperate European Jews. Dr. Franz Adler,...
The Innocents
AuthorMichael Crummey
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline....
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