02842cam a2200337 i 4500 2171242882 TxAuBib 20241114120000.0 241101s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024050786 9781538742051 hardcover 1538742055 hardcover (OCoLC)1465008001 TxAuBib rda Baldacci, David, 1960-, author. Strangers in time / David Baldacci. First edition. New York : GCP, 2025. 448 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Dust Jacket. "Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a ver y good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school bu barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of people to have been evacuated to the countryside via 'Operation Pied Piper,' Molly has been away from her parents-from her home-for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she'd hoped for as she's confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there, only her old nanny, Mrs. Pride. Without guardians an stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his book shop, The Book Keep, where A book a day keeps the bombs away. Mourning the recent loss of his wife, Ignatius forms a kinship with both children, and in each other-over the course of the greatest armed conflict the world had ever seen-they rediscover the spirit of family each has lost. But Charlie's escapades in the city have not gone unnoticed, and someone's been following Molly since she returned to London. And Ignatius is reeling from a secret Imogen long kept from him while she was alive-something so shocking it resulted in her death, and his life being turned upside down. As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that while the perils of war rage on, their coming together and trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive"-- Provided by publisher. 20250501. Orphans Great Britain Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft TXKIP