Connect the Books - SER 2024

 

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1. The air raid book club: a novel

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Author:
Lyons, Annie
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3.3 stars
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction has 3
LYONS
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Fiction
LYONS
Holly Springs Community - Adult Fiction
LYONS
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"London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is preparing to sell up and move away when she is asked if she would be willing to take in a young Jewish refugee from Germany. Gertie is unsure and when sullen teenager Hedy Fischer...

2. Bridge to the sun: the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II

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Author:
Henderson, Bruce, 1946-
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
940.53 HENDE
Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction has 2
940.53 HENDE
East Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
940.53 HENDE
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"The true story of the Japanese American soldiers who helped fight the war in the Pacific in World War II"--

3. Come fly the world: the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am

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Author:
Cooke, Julia
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3.5 stars
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"A ... portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am Airways between 1966 and 1975"--

4. The covenant of water: a novel

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Author:
Verghese, Abraham, 1955-
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4.1 stars
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...

5. Dangerous rhythms: jazz and the underworld

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Author:
English, T. J., 1957-
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
306.4 ENGLI
Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
306.4 ENGLI
East Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
306.4 ENGLI
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Examines "the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America"--

6. The four winds

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
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4.2 stars
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"[A]n epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras--the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with...

7. Ghosts of Honolulu: a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor

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Author:
Harmon, Mark
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4 stars
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"A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; A Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that will change the world forever--

8. Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

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Author:
Grann, David
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4 stars
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE
“A shocking whodunit…What...

9. King: a life

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Author:
Eig, Jonathan
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4.4 stars
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"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--