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The Ship of Brides by JoJo Moyes
Sydney, Australia, 1946. Four women join 650 other war brides on a voyage to England aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries arms and aircraft as well as a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier’s captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined despite the Navy’s ironclad sanctions. (2014, 446 pgs; Fiction)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey–a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island. (2008, 277 pgs; Fiction)
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption by Ben Mezrich
On November 26, 2017, the Winklevoss brothers became the first bitcoin billionaires. Here’s the story of how they got there. (2019, 276 pgs; Nonfiction)
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