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Literary ElementsDecember 2016
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Books and Bites Monday, December 12, 7-8 pm Are you in your 20s or 30s and looking for a book group geared just for you? Join us at Panera Bread in West Babylon where you can grab a snack, some coffee & discuss the book Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand. Can’t make it to the Library to register? Find and follow us on Meetup.com/Books-and-Bites-Book-Group and download the book at Live-brary.com. Registration is underway. Newcomers are welcome!
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Tuesday, December 13, 2-4 pm Writers, join others as you share creative ideas. No experience necessary. Registration is underway. Check out Thoughts on Paper, the Writer's Club Quarterly Journal.
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December Table Display: Remembering Pearl Harbor In honor of the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, stop by our display to check out a few books and movies dedicated to Pearl Harbor and World War II.
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Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement
by Henry C. Clausen
In 1944, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, knowing that high-ranking members of the military had falsely testified before various bodies investigating the attack on Pearl Harbor, selected a then unknown major by the name of Henry C. Clausen to undertake a new investigation. From November 1944 to September 1945, Clausen traveled traveled and interviewed U.S. and British Army, Navy, and civilian personal. He was given the authority to go anywhere and question anyone under oath, from enlisted personnel right up to George C. Marshall, the Chief of Staff. He ultimately presented an 800 page report to Stimson. A report that revealed a massive failure by the United States to use the priceless intelligence that it had obtained months before Pearl Harbor
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Pacific Glory
by Peter T. Deutermann
Their military careers forever transformed by the attack on Pearl Harbor, Navy nurse Glory grieves for the loss of her husband while ship officer Marsh battles his way toward Leyte Gulf and fighter pilot Mick struggles with the drinking problem for which he was grounded.
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Perfidia
by James Ellroy
A debut entry in a second L.A. Quartet by the award-winning author of L.A. Confidential follows a post-Pearl Harbor murder of a Japanese family that entangles a brilliant Japanese-American forensic chemist, an adventurous woman, a future police chief and an arch villain.
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at Seattle's Panama Hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a personal quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment and of Keiko, a Japanese girl whose love transcended cultures & generations.
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Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation into War
by Steven M. Gillon
Explores the anxious and emotional events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing how the president and the American public responded in the pivotal 24 hours that followed the attack.
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Day of Infamy
by Walter Lord
A sixtieth anniversary of the classic documentary of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor describes the events of the surprise Japanese campaign, its impact on American history, and people's reaction to it, based on eyewitness accounts, diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and official military files.
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A Life Apart
by L. Y. Marlow
Surviving the Pearl Harbor attack with the help of a black sailor he doesn't know, navy soldier Morris Sullivan tracks down the man's sister, with whom he embarks on a decades-long interracial affair against a backdrop of World War II and the Civil Rights era.
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
by Craig Nelson
Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attack, an account based on years of research and new information illuminates less-understood aspects of how and why Japan targeted America, sharing additional details about the experiences of survivors.
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Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941
by Edward C. Raymer
The commander of a naval diving team chronicles the team's efforts to salvage ships destroyed in the Pearl Harbor attack, dangerous work that had to be conducted in complete darkness, with the divers navigating by touch after having memorized the ships' blueprints, and having to avoid such threats as sharks, Japanese attack from above, falling objects and more.
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China Dolls
by Lisa See
Overcoming respective pasts to audition for showgirl roles at an exclusive San Francisco nightclub, three Asian-American girls rely on each other for survival until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor causes one of them to be betrayed and sent to an internment camp.
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Given up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island
by Bill Sloan
Drawing on eyewitness accounts by survivors, as well as extensive research, a compelling account of America's first battle of World War II describes the ordeal of American soldiers and civilians who defended Wake Island against a surprise Japanese attack just hours after Pearl Harbor and were forced to endure nearly four years of brutality as Japanese POWs.
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Silent Honor
by Danielle Steel
A Japanese girl living with her uncle in California to attend college, Hiroko becomes caught up in the horrors of World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor when she and her uncle's family are forced into an internment camp with other Japanese Americans.
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Rain Falls Like Mercy
by Jack Todd
A latest entry in the Paint family saga follows the murder investigation of a young girl in Wyoming whose death is obscured by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, after which Tom is deployed to England at the same time he pursues his top suspect, the psychotic son of a wealthy rancher.
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Long Day's Journey into War
by Stanley Weintraub
Presents a global analysis of the twenty-four hours that thrust the United States into World War II, featuring interviews with survivors and a detailed countdown of events that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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