WWII Fiction
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Oryntel Library
WWII Fiction
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
A blind French girl and a German boy's paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo.
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The past brought vividly to life through meticulously researched storytelling.
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Multi-Generational Saga
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Oryntel Library
Multi-Generational Saga
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi · 2016
Two half-sisters' diverging lineages across three centuries in Ghana and America.
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View detailsHistorical Drama
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
Oryntel Library
Historical Drama
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden · 1997
A girl sold to a Kyoto geisha house becomes one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
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View detailsMulti-Generational Saga
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Oryntel Library
Multi-Generational Saga
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
A Korean family's survival and identity across four generations in Japan.
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View detailsWWI/WWII Fiction
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn
Oryntel Library
WWI/WWII Fiction
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
A female spy network of WWI and a searching American girl collide in 1947.
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Oryntel Library
WWII Fiction
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Death narrates the story of a girl who steals books in Nazi Germany.
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View detailsWWII Fiction
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Oryntel Library
WWII Fiction
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Two sisters in occupied France resist the war in very different ways.
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The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
Oryntel Library
Medieval Epic
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
The building of a cathedral in 12th-century Kingsbridge across decades of turmoil.
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The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Oryntel Library
Mythic Historical
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2011
Patroclus tells the story of Achilles, from boyhood to the walls of Troy.
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View detailsTudor Fiction
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Oryntel Library
Tudor Fiction
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel · 2009
Thomas Cromwell's rise in the court of Henry VIII.
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