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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Grafton girls The Grafton girls Annie Groves The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. A unique bond is formed as the hostilities take… OL10373W
Christ walks where evil reigned Christ walks where evil reigned Emmanuel M. Kolini xxi, 196 p. ; 22 cm OL13617002W
Four Freedoms Four Freedoms John Crowley One of the most admired and honored of our contemporary literary artists, author John Crowley now brilliantly re-creates a time in America when ordinary people were asked to sacrifice their comforts … OL14987779W
My story of the war My story of the war Mary Ashton Rice Livermore When secessionist chaos turned to bloodshed in 1861, Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905), editor, lecturer, and abolitionist, left her family and volunteered for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, becoming one … OL15876619W
Edith Wharton Edith Wharton Hermione Lee From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving… OL16025713W
The War [videorecording] The War [videorecording] Ken Burns Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which t… OL16811479W
Victory Farm Volunteers of the U.S. Crop Corps Need 50,0000 Boys And Girls Victory Farm Volunteers of the U.S. Crop Corps Need 50,0000 Boys And Girls United States. Extension Service. AWI 52 OL17323363W
House of doors House of doors Chaz Brenchley War widow Ruth Taylor, volunteering at a mansion-turned-RAF military hospital, experiences strange visions that suggest her late husband is causing malevolent accidents. OL17895835W
From Sand and Ash From Sand and Ash Amy Harmon,Cassandra Campbell 375 pages ; 21 cm OL20805397W
The canary girls The canary girls Rosie Archer 372 pages (large print) ; 24 cm OL20861519W
Women in World War I Women in World War I Nick Hunter World War I brought many changes for women. Some stepped into roles left vacant by men now serving overseas, while others helped the war effort as nurses, telephone operators, and more. This book exp… OL22642011W
Walt Whitman and the Civil War Walt Whitman and the Civil War Walt Whitman "The central idea of this book was born of a longstanding interest in Whitman and his work, and the discovery that, though many phases of his life had already been diligently investigated, his relati… OL24859763W
Once upon a town Once upon a town Bob Greene "North Platte, Nebraska, is as isolated as a small town can be, a solitary outpost in the vast midwestern plains, hours from the state's urban centers of Omaha and Lincoln. But from Christmas Day 194… OL3245137W