Sarah Bird
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's novel is about one woman--and a nation--struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into...
2) The gap year
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learn how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the first woman to ever serve in the US Army.
"Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my Mama never let me forget it." Cathy Williams was born and lived a slave until the Union army came and destroyed the only world she had ever known. Separated from her family, she makes the impossible decision: to fight with...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Growing up on Kadena Air Base with her no-nonsense sergeant mother, Luz suffers suicidal thoughts after her sister's death and investigates the story of her Okinawan grandmother, who also confronted her mortality after the World War II deaths of family members.