18 books like Smiling for strangers
Star wars
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Kind aller Länder
"In this [...] novel, some of the great themes of 1930s Europe are refracted through the eyes of a child who is both naive and wise beyond her years. Irrepressible Kully, her charming, freckless father and her nervy, fragile mother are brought to life through Irmgard Keun's fast-paced prose. Published in German in 1938, Child of all nations is permeated by the threat of war and paints a…
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FitzOsbornes at War
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Under the persimmon tree
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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The Slopes of War
In the summer of 1863, Bekah Summerhill watches as Confederate troops sweep through her sleepy Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, in a panoramic tale about the turning point of the Civil War.
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Christophe's Story
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The Rider from Lost Creek
Lance Kilkenny has a debt to pay, and he isn't about to let the friend who saved his life go down in a range war. But when Kilkenny tries to stop the fighting, he finds there's more at stake than land or wire. Whoever is stirring up trouble has big ideas for the Live Oak country--and an army of hired guns to back them up. Nita Riordan, the beautiful and fiery owner of the Apple Canyon Saloon,…
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The Shapeshifters
Five shapeshifter novels--one fascinating read!HawksongDanica Shardae, an avian shapeshifter, will do anything in her power to stop the war that has raged between her people and the serpiente--even pretend to be in love with Zane Cobriana, the terrifying leader of her kind's greatest enemy, and accept him as her pair bond. But will Zane strike as swiftly and lethally as the cobra that is his…
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Refugee boy
The story of a young Ethiopian boy, whose parents abandon him in London to save his life.
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My Enemy, My Brother
My Enemy, My Brother
Released from a concentration camp after World War II, a sixteen-year-old boy settles on an Israeli kibbutz but finds his new life threatened by the growing conflict between Arabs and Jews.
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Galactic war
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The Show-And-Tell War
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor
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While You Were Away, Daddy
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Greek Tales
Greek Tales
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The Edge of War
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Shattered
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1915
1915
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