Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Library Journal's Reader's Shelf

Library Journal's Reader's Shelf
On the Western Front:  The Great War in Print
A Century of November

A Century of November
By Wetherell, W. D.
2004-09 - University of Michigan Press
9780472114313 Check Our Catalog

A haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope in a time of war
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Birdsong



Birdsong
By Faulks, Sebastian
1997-06 - Vintage Books USA
9780679776819 Check Our Catalog

Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come. …More


Deafening

Deafening
By Itani, Frances
2004-11 - Grove Press
9780802141651 Check Our Catalog

A Canadian bestseller for 16 weeks, this magnificent tale of love and war is set on the eve of World War I as a young deaf woman and a soldier try to sustain their intimacy. …More


Maisie Dobbs

Maisie Dobbs
By Winspear, Jacqueline
2004-06 - Penguin Books
9780142004333 Check Our Catalog

Hailed by NPRas "Fresh Air" as part "Testament of Youth," part Dorothy Sayers, and part "Upstairs, Downstairs," this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literatureas favorite sleuths.
Maisie Dobbs isnat just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligenceaand the patronage of her benevolent employersashe works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. After the War, Maisie sets up on her own as a private investigator. But her very first assignment, seemingly an ordinary infidelity case, soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind. …More


A Son at the Front

A Son at the Front
By Wharton, Edith
1995-09 - Northern Illinois University Press
9780875805689 Check Our Catalog

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The Ghost Road

The Ghost Road
By Barker, Pat
1996-11 - Plume Books
9780452276727 Check Our Catalog

Winner - 1995 Booker Award
The Ghost Road is the shattering conclusion of Pat barker's brilliant World War I trilogy. Set in the final months of the war, The Ghost Road focuses on Dr. William Rovers, the compassionate psychiatrist of Regeneration and Lt. Billy Prior, last seen as a domestic intelligence agent in The Eye in the Door. "A triumph of imagination".--Publisher's Weekly.
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