Jennifer Chiaverini
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English
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"Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired...
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English
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Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison.
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Series
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HarperCollins Iberica
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Mildred Fish, una joven recien graduada, se casa con el brillante economista aleman Arvid Harnack, al que acompana a su pais natal, donde un prometedor futuro los esta aguardando. Los recien casados se crean una nueva y enriqecedora vida llena de amor, amigos y trabajo dentro del floreciente ambiente cultural e intelectual del Berlin de 1930. Pero el imparable ascenso de una nueva y malvada faccion politica cambia para siempre su destino. Mientras...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem "Christmas Bells," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old familiar carols play/ And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge,...