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321) Those who save us
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
482 pages ; 20 cm
Description
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuumlehrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor...
322) Copperhead
Author
Series
Starbuck chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
417 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Description
Captain Nathaniel Starbuck, a Confederate hero at Manassas, is in the thick of Civil War action. Nate finds himself accused of being a Yankee spy. Proving his innocence and finding the real spy will require courage and endurance.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 446 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary...
Author
Pub. Date
[1948]
Description
Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the World War II, "The Naked and the Dead" received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its 1948 publication and has since become part of the American canon.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
406 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"In 1939, British Colonel Noel Macrae, stationed in Berlin and witness to the rise of the Reich, decides that he might be the only Englishman with the opportunity to avert war. As he attempts to convince the British government of his mission, the colonel becomes torn between his government's orders and his own personal beliefs, especially as he falls in love with a German-Jewish woman. Blackmailed by the Nazis, the woman and her family have faced...
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024].
Physical Desc
583 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners, but for Emmy, who sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of...
327) Iwo, 26 Charlie
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"The island of Iwo Jima was the epic land and sea battle that produced one of the iconic images of WWII: the Marines raising the American flag on Mount Surabachi, an active volcano that was the site of intense hand to hand combat. In this gripping novel,Deutermann follows a young gunnery liaison officer, Lee Bishop, who during the ferocious battle for the island is pulled from his station aboard the USS Nevada to serve on-shore as a spotter, calling...
328) Birds without wings
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Physical Desc
xi, 553 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Description
This is the story of a small town in Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the men and women-Armenians, Christians, Muslims-whose lives are intertwined and rooted there: Iskander, the potter and local fount of wisdom; Philotei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherd, a great love that culminates in tragedy and madness. When jihad is declared against...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
374, 10 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Description
Grace Steele and Eliza Jones may be from completely different backgrounds, but when it comes to the army, specifically the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), they are both starting from the same level. Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve. As these courageous women help to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
City of Meat — Charles Swagger is on the hunt for Baby Face Nelson when a tip takes him to the Chicago stockyards. There, a brutal assault leads him to suspect the presence of a narcotics ring with plans to spread a dangerous new drug through the slums. Will Charles be able to stop it before it kills dozen? Or is he in over his head on Chicago's dark streets?
Johnny Tuesday — Earl Swagger investigates a violent bank robbery which left...
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