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Language
English
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In this book the author traces the story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities, it...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Atria paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Eighty-year-old Dora, the narrator of a story that began a half century earlier, is bonding with an unlikely set of friends, including Jackie Hart, a restless middle-aged wife and mother from Boston, who gets into all sorts of trouble when her family moves to a small, sleepy town in Collier County, Florida, circa 1962. With humor and insight the novel chronicles the awkward North-South cultural divide as Jackie, this hapless but charming “Yankee,”...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"A novel based on a true story [in which] a mother and daughter risk their lives to provide shelter to two families and a German soldier--all unbeknownst to each other--in a tiny two-room house in Sokal, Poland, during the Nazi invasion"--Amazon.com.
267) Dead of winter
Author
Series
Publisher
Kelly Nichols and Kristy Montee
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Louis Kincaid investigates the murders of police officers whose killer leaves coded death cards next to the bodies.
268) Banned book club
Author
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
College freshman Kim Hyun Sook, who seeks refuge from a totalitarian regime in the comfort of books, unexpectedly joins an underground banned book club, where the delights of discovering works of illicit literature are overshadowed by fear and violence.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For librarian Aurora Teagarden, who is known around her small town as a master sleuth, nothing beats a good mystery. When mayhem and murder jump off the page and into her small town, she must solve each crime clue by clue before it is too late.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi--her grandmother's former servant and trusted confidant--who reveals the resilience,...
271) The engineer's wife
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
When Emily Warren Roebling marries Captain Washington 'Wash' Roebling-the handsome, charming soldier of her dreams, and her brother's dear friend and aide during the Civil War-a lifetime of family fun and happiness seems within her grasp. But then Wash accepts the position as Chief Engineer on his father's magnum opus, the Brooklyn Bridge, and it changes both of their lives forever. In Brooklyn, the happy home they'd dreamed of warps around the bridge....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records, chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on the threshold of a new, adult life, a healthy, ambitious...
273) The Cana mystery
Author
Publisher
Tuscany Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this gripping mystery adventure, Ava, an MIT graduate student and expert in ancient languages, is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from an old friend, Paul, with a baffling request: Could she fly to Yemen immediately? He's found something important and needs her help. Paul's subsequent coded e-mail alludes to what he and his boss, Simon Demaj, have found: the lost jars of Cana, the very jars that Jesus used at the wedding at...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Massachusetts, 1954. Alice Campbell escapes halfway across the country and finds herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge, and she turns that sad little shop into the charming bookstore of her dreams. Tess, Caroline, Evie and Merritt become fast friends in the sanctuary of Alice's monthly reading club at The Cambridge Bookshop, where they escape the pressures of being newly independent college women...
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