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Nothing But a Smile From the author of the widely praised novel "The Lake, the River & the Other Lake" comes this love story of a man and a woman who choose an unconventional way to redefine themselves during and after World War II. ...More |
 
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Dream When You're Feeling Blue From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "We Are All Welcome Here" and "Open House" comes Berg's superb new novel, set in the time of World War II, about the three Heaney sisters and the men they love. ...More |
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Red Sky at Morning The classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life that count. ...More |
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Four Freedoms Crowley, John 2009-06 - William Morrow & Company 9780061231506 Find It
From the critically acclaimed author of "Lord Byron's Novel" and "The Translator" comes an imaginative account of war and peace, innocence and wisdom, set in 1940s America. …More |
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Tallgrass Dallas, Sandra 2007/04 - St. Martin's Press 9780312360191 Find It During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small town. Part thriller, part historical novel, Dallas has written a riveting exploration of the darkest--as well as the best--parts of the human heart. ...More |
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Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime It's the summer of 1942, and as bombs fall on England, a troupe of gallant actors, sound-effects people, writers, and producers labors to entertain the folks at home. Into this world come Jack Dulaney and Holly Carnahan, determined to find Holly's missing father, whose disappearance and the unsolved murder of an actor seem to be tied up with the very radio station that provides Holly and Jack a lifeline. ...More |
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Jitterbug: A Novel of Detroit In the tense world of industrial Detroit during World War II, a self-appointed soldier is savaging ordinary and defenseless people. Lieutenant Zagreb's most important job is to keep the city from exploding. But he must also catch this mad killer while saving his own soul. But he can't succeed at all three. ...More |
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Ford, Jamie 2009/01 - Ballantine Books 9780345505330 Find It
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The War Against Miss Winter Haines, Kathryn Miller 2007/06 - Harper Paperbacks 9780061139789 Find It Set in World War II New York, Haines has written an evocative and charming mystery starring the indomitable Rosie Winter--a struggling actress whos a delightful twist on Rosie the Riveter. ...More |
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Swing: A Mystery Two-time Edgar Award winner Rupert Holmes-author of the critically acclaimed "Where the Truth Lies and creator of the Tony Award--winning musical whodunit "The Mystery of Edwin Drood-now fuses gripping suspense and evocative music in an innovative novel of intrigue set in 1940, during the very heart of the Big Band era. "Swing is a multimedia mystery that spills off the printed page and into the musical tracks of the enclosed CD. Jazz saxophonist and arranger Ray Sherwood, touring with the Jack Donovan Orchestra, is haunted by personal tragedy. But when a beautiful and talented Berkeley student named Gail Prentice seeks his help in orchestrating a highly original composition called "Swing Around the Sun, which is slated to premiere at the Golden Gate Exposition on the newly created Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, Ray finds himse ...More |
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Rumors of Peace Perhaps no novel since "A Seperate Peace" has so superbly captured the impingement of a world at war upon a safe and sheltered environment. The place in Mendoza, a small oil-refining town thirty miles east of San Francisco. The time encompassed is World War II, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor until the bombing of Hiroshima. The narrator and heroine of the story is the fierce yet enchanting Suse Hansen. In the intervening four years, we watch with compassion as Suse evolves from a tomboy who wishes to be a trapeze artist to a young person whose moral growth has been as remarkable as her blossoming womanhood. ...More |
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The Art Student's War Leithauser, Brad 2009-11 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307271112 Find It
In his sixth novel, Leithauser has realized a double feat of imagination: a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday, and a keen and affectionate rendering of a young artist, Bianca Paradiso. …More |
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When the Emperor Was Divine Otsuka, Julie 2003-10 - Anchor Books 9780385721813 Find It
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination--both physical and emotional--of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view--the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train ride to the camp; the son in the desert encampment; the family's return to their home; and the bitter release of the father after more than four years in captivity--she has created a small tour de force, a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion. Spare, intimate, arrestingly understated, "When the Emperor Was Divine is a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times. It heralds the arrival of a singularly gifted new novelist. …More |
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Gardenias This novel revisits the author's most beloved characters from "The Cape Ann," taking them from their hometown to new lives, new dreams, and new risks in San Diego. ...More |