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The Briar Club : a novel / by Quinn, Kate,author.;
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Political fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Anti-communist movements; Boardinghouses; Female friendship; Nineteen fifties;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 4
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The Briar Club [text (large print)] : a novel / by Quinn, Kate,author.;
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Political fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Anti-communist movements; Boardinghouses; Female friendship; Nineteen fifties;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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A good American family : the red scare and my father / by Maraniss, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A personal story of the author's father's involvement in HUAC that offers a rich portrait of McCarthy era America"--
Subjects: Maraniss, David; Maraniss, Elliott, 1918-2004.; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.; Anti-communist movements;
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Atomic family : a novel / by McElroy, Ciera Horton,1995-author.;
"A South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear bomb plant. It's November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Nine-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at the nuclear plant in town. Meanwhile, his mother Nellie covertly joins an anti-nuclear movement led by angry housewives-and his father, Dean, must decide what to do with the damning secrets he's uncovered at the nuclear plant. When tragedy strikes, the Porter family must learn to confront their fears-of the world and of each other"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cold War; Families; Nuclear power plants; Nuclear warfare; Paranoia; Scientists; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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