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2) The women
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English
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"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
ix, 293 pages : illustrtions ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of Andr�ee Geulen and Ida Sterno, who worked with the Committee for the Defense of Jews to hide more than three thousand Jewish children in Belgium during World War II"--
"Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. ... Young schoolteacher Andr�ee Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a young Englishman as he joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
The sequel to Hope and glory, Bill Rohan is grown up and drafted into the army where he and his best mate battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
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Language
English
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Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler’s rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly.
After...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three generations of Swagger family members, Charles, Earl and Bob Lee, tell their stories in three interconnected novellas that describe hunting for a notorious gangster in Chicago, uncovering municipal corruption in Maryland, and returning from the Vietnam War.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
480 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air-meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on "the Hump,"...
8) Sheba
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
�2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (approximately 360 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the Second World War, as German armies gather to invade Poland, Hitler has hit upon a master plan to distract the British while the blitzkrieg takes place.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
An inspiring and engaging historical nonfiction book for kids 9 to 12, this newly adapted young readers' edition of the acclaimed national bestseller tells the story of America's glowing girls and their brave fight for justice
Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of young women spend their days hard at work painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The painters consider themselves lucky-until they start suffering...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 565 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...