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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a wealthy landowner is found floating in the Alabaster River on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero, struggles to solve this murder that has the town of Jewel, Minnesota, up in arms, while putting to rest the demons from his own past.
3) The women
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Women can be heroes. 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As WWII ends, Elise returns to Paris to reunite with her daughter only to find her friend Juliette, the woman she entrusted her daughter with, has seemingly vanished without a trace, which leads Elise on a desperate search to New York—and to Juliette—one final, fateful time.
Author
Language
English
Description
Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women’s rights and the power of education, civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt fight together for justice and equality, holding each other’s hands through tragedy and triumph.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
London, 1995: When on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast runs an appeal for information on the identity of a midwife who saved hundreds of lives, Emilia knows it is time to finally tell her story. Occupied Poland, 1942: Emilia is allowed certain freedoms as a midwife. But Emilia has a secret: for years she’s also been visiting the hidden Jewish mothers and working for the resistance…until she is betrayed. Suddenly...
7) The book spy
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1942, librarian Maria Alves, a microfilm specialist trained in espionage, is dispatched to Lisbon to gather vital information from Axis publications, and works in tandem with Tiago Soares, a bookstore owner secretly providing forged passports and visas to Jewish refugees.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Inspired by a remarkable true story, this moving novel follows schoolteacher Alice King as she helps evacuate Britain’s children overseas and finds her life fatefully entwined with mother Lily Nichols when a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the USS Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada.
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