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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs., 48 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Wealthy, beautiful Naneé was born with a spirit of adventure. For her, learning to fly is freedom. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, this woman with an adorable dog and a generous heart joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Naneé uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Photographer Edouard Moss has escaped Germany with his young...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The hard-edged story of love, power, and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940s. Raven is a cold-blooded professional killer who's been double-crossed by his client. Ellen is a beautiful nightclub singer who's spying on her corrupt boss. Lt. Michael Crane is a dedicated cop who wants Ellen's love and Raven's capture. The tension mounts and before the case is wrapped up, someone will pay with his life.
4) On the road
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After World War I a certain group of restless, searching Americans came to be called 'The Lost Generation.' This group found its truest voice in the writings of the young Hemingway. For a good many of the same reasons after World War II another group, roaming America in a wild, desperate search for identity and purpose, became known as 'The Beat Generation.' Jack Kerouac is the voice of this group and this is his novel. On the Road is about Sal Paradise,...
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Series
Aloysius Archer novels volume 1
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It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, put away for a crime he didn't commit, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of Dos and a much longer list of Don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job, and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in...
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"Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful singing act, until time, temptation, and the responsibilities of home and family derail their dreams. Shortly before World War II, Chi Chi Donatelli and Saverio Armandonada meet one summer on the Jersey shore and fall...
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Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 20 cm
Description
It's Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner, but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn't know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor's shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself in a dangerous world of wartime espionage. Lizard doesn't know who to trust. How is the mysterious book inside the box connected to his friend Lili,...
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Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
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Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world. Illustrations feature vintage photography.
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Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of bizarre, gruesome murders begins. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and hidden identities to find the murderer, and lift the curse wreaking its bloody revenge on the Inugamis."--Provided by publisher.
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Maria von Wedemeyer knows the heartbreaking realities of war include loved ones who never come back. The last thing this spirited young woman needs is to fall for a man under constant surveillance by the Gestapo. Yet when Dietrich Bonhoeffer, an old family friend, comes to comfort the von Wedemeyers after tragic losses, she discovers that love isn't always logical. Dietrich himself has determined to keep his distance from romantic attachments. There...
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm
Description
1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She'll work in city hall, marry her fiancé when he returns from the war, and settle down in the Boston suburbs. But when her fiancé is reported missing after being shot down in Germany, Fiona's long-held plans are shattered. Determined to learn her fiancé's fate, Fiona leaves Boston to volunteer overseas as a Red Cross Clubmobile girl, recruiting her two best friends to come along. There's...
15) City of secrets
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Series
San Francisco mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 290 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Miranda Corbie investigates the hate-crime murder of Pandora Blake during San Francisco's 1940 World's Fair, a case that subjects her to a devastating web of deceit and betrayal.
16) City of girls
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In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a...
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In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into...
18) City of ghosts
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 326 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Working in San Francisco as a PI years [after her work in the Spanish Civil War, World War II seems] a world away, but it might as well be on [Miranda Corbie's] doorstep now that she's learned that her mother--whom she hasn't seen in years--is trapped in England. There isn't much she can do until the State Department asks her to keep an eye on a chemistry professor who they suspect is a Nazi spy trafficking in information on allied forces armaments....
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Publisher
One More Chapter, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Vancouver 1941. As the war rages around the world, Hitler's fury is yet to be felt on the peaceful shores of Mayne Island. Sweethearts Hayden and Chidori are in love. But everything changes after Pearl Harbor. Now seen as the enemy, Chidori and her family are forced into an internment camp. Powerless to help them, Hayden joins the air force to bring about an end to this devastating war - the thought of Chidori is all that keeps him alive.Can they...
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Bold, reckless Nina Markova grows up on the icy edge of Soviet Russia, dreaming of flight and fearing nothing. When the tide of war sweeps over her homeland, she gambles everything to join the infamous Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on Hitler's eastern front. But when she is downed behind enemy lines and thrown across the path of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, Nina must use all her wits to survive....
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