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Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The summer before seventh grade, Venola Mae Cutright, Belington, West Virginia's best newspaper carrier, writes a series of humorous letters to her best friend away at camp, the Imperial Magic Sea Monkey Company, and her newspaper boss.
83) Dogtag summer
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A "never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since that fateful day the war began, the narrative races from ferocious firefights and bravery in battle to the quiet moments where the courageous men and women of Task Force Pale Horse catch their...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An epic middle-grade memoir about sisterhood and coming-of-age in the three years leading up to the Bosnian Genocide. Three Summers is the story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia. They navigate the joys and pitfalls of adolescence on their family's little island in the middle of the Una River. When finally confronted with the harsh truths of the adult world around them,...
87) Sea of memories
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1937, seventeen-year-old Ella's life changes forever when she is sent to spend the summer on the beautiful and windswept Ile de Re and meets the charismatic, creative Christophe. They spend the summer together, exploring the island's sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters, and, for the first time in her life, Ella feels truly free. But the outbreak of war casts everything in a new light. Ella is forced to return to Scotland, where she volunteers...
88) Three summers
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A tender story about three sisters coming of age in Greece over the course of three summers, now available after being out of print for over twenty years. Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a big old house surrounded by a beautiful garden are Maria, the oldest sister, as sexually bold as she is eager to settle down and have a family of her own; beautiful but...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
"The true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers exiled from Nazi Germany to a Belgian seaside resort, and the world they built there: written with a novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language--a dazzling work of historical nonfiction. It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his home in Austria has been seized. He's been dreaming...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On a summer night, in the arty enclave of Capitol Hill, Seattle, best friends Mickey Montauk and Halifax Corderoy throw one last blowout party before their lives part ways. At twenty-three, they had planned to move together to Boston for graduate school, but global events have intervened: Montauk has just learned that his National Guard unit will deploy to Baghdad at the end of the summer. In the confusion of this altered future, Corderoy is faced...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and uncertainty enveloping the village.
94) Back
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The story of Charlie Summer, who is back from the war and a POW camp having lost the woman he loved, Rose, to illness before he left and his leg to fighting. In other words, Charlie has very little to come back to, only memories, and on top of that he has been deeply traumatized by his experience of war. Rose's father introduces him to another young woman, Nancy, and Charlie becomes convinced that she is in fact Rose and pursues her."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Lost Plot Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Princess Bianca is sent with her sisters to the summer palace, a place no maiden has ever returned from. While her sisters seem perfectly happy, she has only one desire: escape. Vasco, a wounded soldier on his way home from war, stumbles across the summer palace and sets out to solve the mystery no man has managed to yet. If only they let him live long enough...Can the fair maiden and the wounded soldier uncover the sinister secret before it's too...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to Highland Falls, a small town where love is always in the air. In just a few months Abby Everhart has gone from being a top LA media influencer to an unemployed divorcée living out of her car. So inheriting her great-aunt's homestead comes at the perfect time. Abby heads to Highland Falls, North Carolina, to spruce up Honeysuckle Farm before putting it on the market for some much-needed cash. But instead of finding a charming getaway,...
Publisher
St. Clair Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A documentary account of the Allied invasions in Europe during WWII. Compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen, it opens as the assembled Allied Forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion, then covers all the major events of the war to the fall of Berlin; with an introduction by Dwight D. Eisenhower (1st work). A famous propaganda piece used as a US Army training film in WWII. Demonstrate how the political mistakes eventually led to...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"By the time Eddie Collins 27-year playing career had ended, he had been a pivotal performer on five all- time great clubs, dominated his position like no one before (or since), and earned a reputation for intelligent, selfless play that followed him to the Hall of Fame"--Provided by publisher.
100) A separate peace
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
World War II rages overseas, the prestigious Devon prep school holds a summer session for boys trying to graduate before they are drafted. Among the students are two unlikely new roomates - Gene, a quiet, introspective bookworm; and Finny, a carefree and wildly popular athlete. Charmed by Finny, Gene joins him for a series of exciting escapades. But when Gene's grades decline, he suspects that Finny secretly wants him to fail. Fueled by anger and...