Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of the boys and their world. A bestseller for more than fifty years, A Separate Peace is...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal, intelligent, beautiful-but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from...
3) L.A. noire
Language
English
Description
"A dark violent crime thriller set against the backdrop of 1940's Los Angeles. Amid the post-war boom of Hollywood's Golden Age, newly minted detective Cole Phelps embarks on a desperate search for truth in a city where everyone has something to hide"--Container.
Language
English
Description
A companion to the 1940 Census, This is Who We Were provides the reader with a deeper understanding of what life was like in America in 1940 and how it compares statistically to life today. Using material from the 1940 Census, readers will find richly-illustrated personal profiles, economic data, and national events to give meaning and depth to what life was like in 1940 as the country was emerging from depression, but on the verge of war. Next, a...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request