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"Shortly before World War II, Chi Chi Donatelli and Saverio Armandonada meet one summer on the Jersey shore and fall in love. Both are talented and ambitious, and both share the dream of becoming singers for the legendary orchestras of the time: Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman. They're soon married, and it isn't long before Chiara and Tony find that their careers are on the way up as they navigate the glamorous worlds of night clubs, radio,...
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Language
English
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In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
September 1940. As German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Since losing her parents as a child, Susan Shepherd has raised homing pigeons with her grandfather, Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan, but none more so than Duchess, with whom she shares a special bond. When a young pilot named Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force, his quest brings him to the National Pigeon Service, where Susan...
Author
Series
Pentecost and Parker mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Vera Bodine, an elderly shut-in with an exceptional memory, has gone missing and famed detective Lillian Pentecost and her crackerjack assistant Willowjean 'Will' Parker have been hired to track her down. But the New York City of 1947 can be a dangerous place, and there's no shortage of people who might like to get ahold of what's in Bodine's head. Does her disappearance have to do with the high-profile law firm whose secrets she still keeps; the...
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English
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"When scrappy circus runaway Willowjean "Will" Parker saves the life of New York's best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost, she doesn't expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will as her right-hand woman. Three years later, in 1945, Will and Lillian are called in on the case of Abigail Collins, whose dead body...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean 'Will' Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost, travel south to the circus where they find a snakepit of old grudges, small-town crime, and secrets worth killing for. New York, 1946: The last time Will Parker let a case get personal, she walked away with...
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A story of hope, courage, and perseverance. Carol misses red flags about Joe's need for control before she marries him, dashing her dreams for herself and her family. Trouble escalates after their daughter Ellie is paralyzed by the polio virus and Joe returns from WWII. Carol realizes how brutal waking life can be, and she conceals bruises and protects her children the best she can.The Moments Between Dreams is a captivating story of a 1940s...
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English
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"When Lilliana Swope's beloved mother dies, Lilliana gathers her last ounce of courage and flees her abusive husband for the home of her only living relative in the foothills of No Creek, North Carolina. Though Hyacinth Belvidere hasn't seen Lilliana since she was five, she offers her cherished great-niece a safe harbor. Their joyful reunion inspires plans to revive Aunt Hyacinth's estate and open a public library where everyone is welcome, no matter...
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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1947. It's summertime in Hartland, Minnesota. Exciting adventures and endearing moments abound for a boy and his friends and family in their idyllic hometown. Join six-year-old Lowell Tukua as he encounters hobos, Grandpa's ornery bull, gets scared as a rat in the chicken house, rides Beauty, the Doodlebug train, the 'Dig-Dig' model A truck, Dad's new dragline, and chases the old firetruck on his bicycle. Learn the painful mistake that...
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xx, 315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"London, Fall 1945. Architectural historian Diana Somerville's experience as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park and her knowledge of London's churches intersect in MI6's pursuit of a Russian agent named Eternity. Diana wants nothing more than to begin again with her husband Brent after their separation during the war, but her signing of the Official Secrets Act keeps him at a distance. Brent Somerville, professor of theology at King's College, hopes...
11) The witch's kind
Author
Publisher
Redhook Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find them peculiar -- two women living alone on the outskirts of town. It is the price of concealing their strange and dangerous family secret. But two events threaten to upend their lives forever. The first is the arrival of a mysterious abandoned baby with a hint of power like their own. The second is the sudden reappearance of...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
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Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vancouver 1940. As the war rages around the world, Hitler's fury is yet to be felt on the peaceful shores of Mayne Island. Sweethearts Hayden and Chidori are in love. But everything changes after Pearl Harbor.Now seen as the enemy, Chidori and her family are forced into an internment camp. Powerless to help them, Hayden joins the air force to bring about an end to this devastating war--the thought of Chidori is all that keeps him alive.Can they both...
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
GN 460L
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In Southern California, during World War II, twin sisters Flaca and Cuata are harassed by soldiers stationed nearby, but a bigger problem arises when the lost member of an underground species, shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard, needs the sisters' help.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"London, 1942. A killer going by the name of 'Crimson Jack' is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack--or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings? In desperation, Scotland Yard turns to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. Surely,...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything--not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side--and history has appeared on her doorstep...
17) Trumbo
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. It tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated house-cum-hospital in the Berkshires, run by a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure for her condition. Warily, she enlists herself in the efforts of the Doctors Hall to "rectify the maternal environment," both physical and psychological. In the meantime,...
19) We'll meet again
Author
Series
Mulligan sisters volume 4
Language
English
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"Now in its third year, World War II still rages, taking its toll on everyone. On the home front, the Mulligans continue to face war-related challenges...and patience wears thin. Margaret is pulled in various directions as she attempts to care for her toddler and disabled husband Brian, who's haunted by mistakes made on the battlefield--and their marriage is put to the test. Colleen is still pursuing her Hollywood career, but will the arrival of her...
20) Skylight
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiii, 299 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married elderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen left Galicia to marry humble Emilio, but hates Lisbon...