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Question 7 / by Flanagan, Richard,1961-author.;
"By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Flanagan, Richard, 1961-; Flanagan, Richard, 1961-; Authors, Australian; Families; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Behind enemy lines : World War II / by Matas, Carol,1949-;
Subjects: Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2012., Scholastic Canada,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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But you did not come back / by Loridan, Marceline,1928-; Loridan, Marceline,1928-Tu n'es pas revenu.English.; Perrignon, Judith,author.; Smith, Sandra,1949-translator.;
Subjects: Loridan, Marceline, 1928-; Loridan, Marceline, 1928-; Birkenau (Concentration camp); Holocaust survivors; Women motion picture producers and directors; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Marsh King's daughter / by Dionne, Karen,author.;
At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her. Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No electricity, no heat, no running water, not a single human beyond the three of them. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature--fishing, tracking, hunting. And despite her father's odd temperament and sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too ... until she learned precisely how savage a person he could be. More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn't know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marshland he knows better than anyone else in the world. The police commence a manhunt, but Helena knows they don't stand a chance. She knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh King--because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Escaped prisoners; Fathers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sisters under the rising sun [sound recording] / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.; Carmichael, Laura,1986-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Laura Carmichael."A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris. In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed. After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination. Sisters under the Rising Sun is a story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Hope; Musicians; Nurses; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sisters under the rising sun / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris. In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed. After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination. Sisters under the Rising Sun is a story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Hope; Musicians; Nurses; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Forgiveness : a gift from my grandparents / by Sakamoto, Mark,1977-author.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Sakamoto, Mitsue; MacLean, Ralph; Japanese Canadians; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Canadians; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The escape artists : a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison break of the Great War / by Bascomb, Neal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of three downed British airmen who mastermind an elaborate, rollicking escape from a WWI German POW camp"--
Subjects: Prisoner-of-war escapes; Escaped prisoners of war; Prisoner-of-war camps; World War, 1914-1918; Airmen;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The way of a boy : a memoir of Java / by Hillen, Ernest,1934-;
Subjects: Hillen, Ernest, 1934-; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners of war;
© 1993., Viking,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The great escape : a Canadian story / by Barris, Ted,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Stalag Luft III.; Prisoner-of-war escapes; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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