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61) The postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's Pacific Northwest Best Trips. This trusted travel companion features 32 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures. Cruise the Pacific Coast, the Willamette Valley and the Cascade Mountains - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the Pacific Northwest, rent a car, and hit the road!"--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation--destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England--and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a war that...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Presents the first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, a secret, no-holds-barred, ten-day debate in a Moroccan warzone where FDR, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and many others argued their way through choices that could win or lose World War II, which transformed their alliance from a necessity to a bond.
65) Night watch
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, eleven-year-old ConaLee and her mother arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. They're delivered to the hospital's entrance by Papa--an abusive veteran who forces himself into their lives afer ConaLee's mother, who hasn't spoken in a year, grows even more withdrawn. Before he departs, Papa assigns them new identities and demands that ConaLee introduce herself as her mother's nurse--not...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and attacked by other Southerners, and blamed for the South's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As World War I swept Europe, young Americans prepared to join the cause ... well, half of them did. Women were supposed to stay prim and proper at home. But Adeline and Augusta -- ahem, Addie and Gussie -- Van Buren had been taught to skate, swim, and even box. They knew women could do much more than sit around in petticoats. The sisters decided to prove this by writing strongly worded letters. No, no, of course not, Addie and Gussie were fighters!...
Author
Series
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The long war is over, and Ingrid Barrøy, who we first met as a child herself in The Unseen, leaves the island that bears her name to search for the father of her daughter. Alexander, the Russian captive who survived the sinking of prisoner ship the Rigel and found himself in Ingrid's arms in White Shadow, attempted to cross the mountains to Sweden, and now Ingrid follows in his footsteps, carrying their child in her arms, the girl's dark eyes the...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From 1860, when the election Abraham Lincoln triggered the secession of the Deep South states and ending in 1920 when women were granted the right to vote, an acclaimed historian narrates the major episodes of the era and introduces the key individuals who helped remake American democracy, or whose actions spelled its doom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a man dumps a body on a beach in full view of onlookers, the investigation that follows throws up a number of dark twists for DCI Henry Johnstone.January 5, 1930. On a cold, grey winter morning, a mysterious man walks along Bournemouth beach carrying a bundle in his arms. He lays it carefully on the shoreline and calmly walks away. The man has dumped a body.The dead young woman is Faun Moran, a wildchild in her twenties wearing a sparkling cocktail...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one of the girls at work is murdered, and Evelyne must use...
73) In the tunnel
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Myung-gi flees North Korea with his family during the height of the devastating Korean War, beginning an epic struggle for survival that pushes them to the brink.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father's tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany--against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf--and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
76) Okinawa
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan's poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan. Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu Higa, which reflect on this difficult history and pull...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug, it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and...
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 8
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
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