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Author Gaynor, Hazel, author.

Title The last lifeboat / Hazel Gaynor.

Publication Info. New York : Berkley, 2023.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Fiction  F Gaynor    New Books Pittsburg 2ndFL  DUE 04-19-24
Edition First edition.
Description 370 pages ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes readers guide.
Summary "Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her home awakens a strength in Alice she'd long forgotten. Determined to do her part, she finds a role perfectly suited to her experience as a schoolteacher--to help evacuate Britain's children overseas. 1940, London: Lily Nichols once dreamed of using her mathematical talents for more than tabulating the cost of groceries, but life, and love, charted her a different course. With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily's humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder. With her husband gone and bombs raining down, Lily is faced with an impossible choice: keep her son and daughter close, knowing she may not be able to protect them, or enroll them in a risky evacuation scheme, where safety awaits so very far away. When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic. Alice and Lily, strangers to each other--one on land, the other at sea--will quickly become one another's very best hope as their lives are fatefully entwined"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note 1 14
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction.
Shipwrecks -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Canada -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Atlantic Ocean -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Other Form: Online version: Gaynor, Hazel. Last lifeboat. First edition New York : Berkley, 2023 9780593440322 (DLC) 2022048107
ISBN 9780593440315 (trade paperback) : $17.00
0593440315 (trade paperback)

 
    
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