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Bliven Putnam naval adventure 3Hosseini, Khaled
Summary: Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSKhalīfah, Khālid
Summary: A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war Khaled Khalifa's Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination. Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHAHaley, My.
Summary: In 1862, Virginian slave Mary Louvestre risks certain death during the Civil War to smuggle the plans for modifications to the ironclad CSS Virginia to the Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehler Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HALHaley, James L.
Summary: "Following the naval victories of the War of 1812 and the Second Barbary War, the United States is finally expanding its navy to take a place of prominence in world affairs. Bliven Putnam, now Captain of the sloop of war Rappahannock, has come into his own as a leader and is ordered to the Pacific. But with this new tour of duty to last more than two years, his patient wife, Clarity, unwilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2019