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Keep smiling through : my wartime story / by Lynn, Vera,author.; Lewis-Jones, Virginia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the year of her 100th birthday, Dame Vera Lynn's fascinating and life-affirming wartime memoir from the forces' sweetheart of her adventures entertaining the troops in far-flung Burma. 'I was just twenty-seven years old when I went to Burma. It was an experience that changed my life for ever. Up until that time I had not really travelled anywhere at all, apart from one touring visit to Holland with a band I was singing with before the war, and I had certainly never been in an aeroplane. But I wanted to make a difference, to do my bit.' And she did. Written with her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones this is a powerful and life-affirming account of the time she spent with troops in wartime Burma. Based, in part on a diary she kept, alongside unpublished personal letters and photographs from surviving veterans and their families, it explores why it was such a life-defining event for her and shows how her presence helped the soldiers, airmen and others who heard her sing."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Biographies.; Lynn, Vera.; World War, 1939-1945; Women singers; Singers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cleaner [videorecording] / by Uttley, Simon,screenwriter.; Williams, Paul Andrew,1973-screenwriter.; Orton, Matthew,screenwriter.; Campbell, Martin,film director.; Owen, Clive,actor.; Ridley, Daisy,1992-actor.; Skylar, Taz,actor.; Quiver Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Daisy Ridley, Taz Skylar, Clive Owen.At a high-profile corporate gala, a heavily armed group of terrorists takes control of 300 hostages. Unbeknownst to them, a lone window cleaner witnesses the crime in progress, and, as it turns out, she's a ex-soldier, skilled in hand-to-hand combat and firearms.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violence.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Hostages; Terrorists; Window cleaners (Persons); Women veterans;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The new internationals : a novel / by Wright Faladé, David,1964-author.;
"A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history. Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, suffers from an economy in shambles and an unraveled social fabric. Alongside the wary and war-weary population, American GIs and young people from France's colonies also pack the city. Cecile Rosenbaum, from a bourgeois Jewish family that has lost everything, meets Minette Traoré, a feisty, French-born girl of Senegalese descent, on the bus to a Communist Youth Conference. There, she also meets Sebastien Danxomè, an aspiring architecture student from West Africa, and romance blooms. Back in Paris, as these young internationals haunt the cafés and jazz clubs of the Latin Quarter, Cecile and Sebastien find their budding love muddied by confused loyalties and unyielding cultural traditions. When Mack Gray, a charming African American GI, sets his sights on Cecile, her complicated relationship with Sebastien, as well as her fierce dedication to her newfound political ideologies, are pushed to the brink. Nuanced, powerful, and sharply realized, The New Internationals chronicles the postwar awakening and the young women and men who rose up-and came together-in the beginnings of a vibrant political moment, trying to imagine a better world"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; African American soldiers; African Americans; Ideology; Imperialism; Interpersonal relations; Interracial dating; Jews; Political participation; Race relations; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The story spinner / by Erskine, Barbara,author.;
Silures, 384 AD. Elen is a princess promised to the emperor of Rome. He had come to Wales to find a bride, or that's what legend tells. Camp Meadow, 2024. Cadi is a writer who has discovered Elen's lost story. As she puts pen to paper, Cadi uncovers her cottage neighbours an ancient meadow. She is convinced she can hear soldiers marching. Opening the gate to the ancient meadow behind her cottage, could the secret behind Elen's fate lie closer than she thinks? But someone is desperate to keep the past buried, plotting to destroy the meadow. Can Cadi uncover Elen's story before it's lost to time? This is a spellbinding tale of love, ambition, and secrets that have lain silent for over a thousand years.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Generals; Man-woman relationships; Meadows; Power (Social sciences); Princesses; Secrecy; Women authors;
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Sisters of the sky / by Kortchik, Lana,author.;
"October 1941: As war rages in the Soviet Union, Nina is devastated as she watches her younger brother being sent off to the front. She has witnessed so many soldiers go to war and never return, and with her father already on the battlefield, her brother is her only family left. Sick of feeling helpless and determined to fight for her motherland, Nina and her best friend Katya decide to volunteer for the first female-only aviation regiment, led by the legendary pilot Marina Raskova. But fighting a war is nothing like they expected, and soon the battle lines are no longer restricted to the front - a forbidden love begins to blossom, and Nina is faced with the ultimate betrayal. Will Nina and her loved ones make it out alive?"--Back cover.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Soviet Union. Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily; Man-woman relationships; Women air pilots; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lies we leave behind / by Salazar, Noelle,author.;
Somewhere in the Pacific, 1943. Kate Campbell is a nurse who bravely flies back and forth from the front to rescue wounded soldiers, amid long days, harsh conditions and often dangerous weather. Driven by a deep personal need to help in the war effort, she is disappointed when an accident leaves her injured and sends her home to New York. By the time she's healed, the war has moved on, and rather than being returned to her post in the Pacific, Kate is sent to the English countryside. There, Kate comes face-to-face with the enemy and confronts the heavy toll of violence while tending to the soldiers in her care. She never intended to fall in love, but despite herself, she falls for an officer with a broken femur, startling blue eyes and a wicked sense of humor. For the first time, Kate sees a future for herself. But before she can pursue it, a secret from her past calls her to duty, and she'll have to travel back into danger one more time to rescue a part of herself she'd left behind. But will she make it back? And if she does, will her future still be waiting for her if she does?
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Military nursing; Nurses; Secrecy; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Comfort of Ghosts [electronic resource] : by Winspear, Jacqueline.aut; cloudLibrary;
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! The Comfort of Ghosts completes Jacqueline Winspear’s ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series. “An outstanding historical series.”—The New York Times “Winspear is a brilliant writer, mixing the history and the mystery with the psychology of criminals and victims.”—The Historical Novel Society Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future. London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion—the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group. Maisie’s quest to bring comfort to the youngsters and the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft. As Maisie unravels the threads of her dead husband’s life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers, readers drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours—and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie and her family, but serves as a  fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Traditional; Women Sleuths; Historical;
© 2024., Soho Press,
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The Mitford vanishing / by Fellowes, Jessica,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid Louisa Cannon is now a private detective, working with her policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look into the disappearance of her Communist sister Jessica in Spain. But one case leads to another as they are also asked to investigate the mysterious vanishing of a soldier. As the two cases come together, Louisa and Guy discover that every marriage has its secrets-but some are more deadly than others. Suddenly home feels a long way away ..."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996; Mitford family; Missing persons; Sisters; Women private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The book of lost friends : a novel / by Wingate, Lisa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost Friends" advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold off. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and eight siblings before slavery's end, the pilgrimage westward reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the seemingly limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt--until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, seems suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lies the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything"--
Subjects: HIstorical fiction.; Women; Poverty;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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A secret in Tuscany / by Hlad, Alan,author.;
Italy, 1943: With war blazing through Europe, nowhere is entirely safe--not even the remote hills of the Tuscan countryside. It's here that Italian partisans, including thousands of women, risk their lives to provide Jewish refugees with an escape route to Switzerland. And it's here, too, that Gianna Conti travels to join the Italian Resistance in the wake of her brother Matteo's death at the hands of German soldiers. Her father has been hiding Jewish refugees on their family's vineyard in Chianti, but now Gianna is bringing the fight directly to the enemy. While delivering weapons and intelligence for partisans, Gianna meets Tazio Napoli, an American working undercover for the Office of Strategic Services. Despite the growing odds of discovery, Gianna and Tazio conduct high-risk missions to sabotage German operations. With the aid of Tazio's OSS codebook, they encrypt secret messages to each other while apart, hiding them at a dead drop in an abandoned mine. But as the Allies steadily fight their way toward Florence, occupying German forces grow more desperate, leading to a shocking, unthinkable act of vengeance. And Gianna's fate will rest upon her cunning, her resilience, and her willingness to keep hope alive, even through the decades that follow.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Espionage; Guerrillas; Man-woman relationships; Revenge; Secrecy; Women guerrillas; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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