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(0)Nevil Shute
Author
Series
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
A novel told partly in flashbacks about a girl's search for the Australian she met in Malaya during World War II. A Town Like Alice tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life.
2) On the beach
Author
Language
English
Description
Following a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere, the inhabitants of a small Australian community wait for the inevitable aftereffects of the bombs to reach them.
3) Pastoral
Author
Pub. Date
1944
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 21cm
Language
English
Description
She was from the hills of Yorkshire, country born and bred. He was a city boy. By the stream where they fished, they were two young people falling in love. Overhead, the bombers roared, threatening to blow their idyllic world, so young, so fresh, to smithereens.
4) Ordeal
Author
Pub. Date
1939
Physical Desc
280 pages 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Life in the Corbett family turned upside down when the first German bombs struck their well-ordered street. But life goes on through fire and destruction, life and love rising from the rubble of London and "the Blitz."
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aeronautical engineer predicts a new type of airplane will fail after a certain amount of time in the air, and then finds himself on board one of the doomed planes while headed to a crash site.