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Author Willig, Lauren, author.

Title Band of sisters [large print] : a novel / Lauren Willig.

Publication Info. New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]

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 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Large Print  LP F Willig    ---  Available
Edition Large print edition.
Description 725 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Summary "A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smiths Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her living to even think of taking up the call. But when her former best friend Emmeline Van Alden reaches out and begs her to take the place of a girl who had to drop out, Kate reluctantly agrees to join the new Smith College Relief Unit.Four months later, Kate and seventeen other Smithies, including two trailblazing female doctors, set sail for France. The volunteers are armed with money, supplies, and good intentions all of which immediately go astray. The chateau that was to be their headquarters is a half-burnt ruin. The villagers they meet are in desperate straits: women and children huddling in damp cellars, their crops destroyed and their wells poisoned. Despite constant shelling from the Germans, French bureaucracy, and the threat of being ousted by the British army, the Smith volunteers bring welcome aid and hope to the region. But can they survive their own differences? As they cope with the hardships and terrors of the war, Kate and her colleagues find themselves navigating old rivalries and new betrayals which threaten the very existence of the Unit.With the Germans threatening to break through the lines, can the Smith Unit pull together and be truly a band of sisters?"
Subject Smith College Relief Unit -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
France -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Large type books.
War fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780063062313 (pbk. : lg. print)
0063062313 (pbk. : lg. print)

 
    
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