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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (21 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
West Texas's Weldon Holland's colorful, intrigue-filled life takes him from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde as a teenager to the trenches of WWII and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana Coast. He will need all of his experience and skill to save his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime American and threaten to destroy them all.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive--to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
No longer famous, journalist Cannie Shapiro writes science fiction under a pen name while raising her teenage daughter, and considers her husband Peter's request to have Cannie's flamboyant sister provide surrogate services so that they can have a second child.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia's difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor. Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys' rarefied and elegant Park Avenue milieu, Eleanor forms an instant...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
663 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leeba Groski doesn't exactly fit in, but her love of music is not lost on her childhood friend and neighbor, Leonard Chess, who offers her a job at his new record company in the heart of Chicago. What starts as answering phones and filing becomes more than Leeba ever dreamed of, as she comes into her own as a songwriter and her path crosses with legendary performers like Muddy Waters and Etta James. But it's Red Dupree, a black blues guitarist from...