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- The Atomic City girls / by Beard, Janet,author.;
"In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months, a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders. The girls spend their evenings socializing and flirting with soldiers, scientists, and workmen at dances and movies, bowling alleys and canteens. June longs to know more about their top-secret assignment and begins an affair with Sam Cantor, the young Jewish physicist from New York who oversees the lab where she works and understands the end goal only too well, while her beautiful roommate Cici is on her own mission: to find a wealthy husband and escape her sharecropper roots. Across town, African-American construction worker Joe Brewer knows nothing of the government's plans, only that his new job pays enough to make it worth leaving his family behind, at least for now. But a breach in security will intertwine his fate with June's search for answers. When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself."--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women employees; World War, 1939-1945;
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- The second sun / by Deutermann, P. T.(Peter T.),1941-author.;
"A taut, suspenseful historical thriller set in the months of WWII: Did Japan also have an atomic weapon, and did America bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki to pre-empt an attack on its fleet? A masterful historical thriller set during the waning months of World War II, The Second Sun poses a provocative question: Did Japan test an atomic weapon, and did America know about it in advance of its own decision to drop two nuclear bombs? March 1945: After a career of commanding destroyers in the Pacific theater of WWII, Captain Wolfe Bowen is based in Washington, DC, working for the Chief of Naval Operations. Bowen receives an urgent call from the commander of the naval shipyard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire: A German U-boat has been captured and brought to port. But what grabs Bowen's attention is the presence of two Japanese civilians on board, along with the massive size of the U-boat itself. What these civilians know about the cargo of the U-boat, as well as its destination, begins a race against time that will change the course of history. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies, Harry Truman ascends to office with no prior knowledge of the Manhattan Project. Bowen is assigned a dangerous mission: Discover whether Japan has the technology to produce an atomic weapon, and find out how close the desperate enemy is to deploying it. Working with a small team-including Captain Villem Amherst Van Rensselaer, part of the inner circle on the Manhattan Project, and Lieutenant Commander Janet Waring, a naval intelligence officer and skilled translator of Japanese-Bowen must report back to President Truman with the information that will transform the war-and the world. Brilliantly imagined and deeply informed by P. T. Deutermann's long history as a navy captain, as well as his family's service in the Pacific theater, The Second Sun is a compelling novel timed for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II"--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Manhattan Project (U.S.); World War, 1939-1945;
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- Barefoot Gen. by Masaki, Mori,film director.; Miyazaki, Issei,actor.; Kôda, Masaki,actor.; Nakano, Seiko,actor.; Inoue, Takao,actor.; Shimamura, Yoshie,actor.; Cineverse (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Issei Miyazaki, Masaki Kôda, Seiko Nakano, Takao Inoue, Yoshie ShimamuraOriginally produced by Cineverse in 1983.Six-year-old boy Gen Nakaoka lives happily with his family in Hiroshima, but after the summer of 1945, everything is about to change.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; Historical films.; Motion pictures--Japan.; World War, 1939-1945.; War.; Atomic bomb.; Nineteen forties.; Motion pictures--Asia.; Animated films--Japan.;
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- Barefoot Gen 2. by Hirata, Toshio,film director.; Miyazaki, Issei,actor.; Nakamura, Kei,actor.; Kôda, Masaki,actor.; Yamamoto, Masato,actor.; Aoyama, Takami,actor.; Cineverse (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Issei Miyazaki, Kei Nakamura, Masaki Kôda, Masato Yamamoto, Takami AoyamaOriginally produced by Cineverse in 1986.Three years have passed since the bombing of Hiroshima and Gen is now a fourth-grader scrounging to keep himself and his remaining family fed.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; Historical films.; Motion pictures--Japan.; World War, 1939-1945.; War.; Atomic bomb.; Nineteen forties.; Motion pictures--Asia.; Animated films--Japan.;
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- Drive my car [videorecording] / by Hamaguchi, Ryūsuke,1978-film director.; Kirishima, Reika,1972-actor.; Miura, Toko,actor.; Nishijima, Hidetoshi,1971-actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Masaki Okada.Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living when there seems to be no road ahead. Contains Korean sign language.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures, Japanese.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Adultery; Chauffeurs; Death; Husband and wife; Man-woman relationships;
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