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Ackerman, Sara

Summary: In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Daisy Wilder enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the Women's Air Raid Defense (WARD) guides pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. Not everyone thinks the women are up to the job, and the new recruits meet resistance and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACK

Brunstetter, Wanda E.

Summary: Ellen travels to Hawaii to help her best friend, but quickly finds herself torn between a new love and her family in Indiana.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRU

Ackerman, Sara

Summary: "She's never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii, and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh Michigan winter. Newly enlisted as an Army Corps nurse, Eva is stunned by the splendor she experiences aboard the steamship SS Lurline; even more so by Lt. Clark Spencer, a man she is drawn to but who clearly has secrets of his own. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACK

Williams, Beatriz

Summary: In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam's fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Willam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Williams 2020

Todd, Ilima

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Maile falls in love with Englishman John Harbottle, the navigator for Captain James Cook when they arrive in the Sandwich Islands. The two cultures clash after the death of Captain Cook in 1779, and Maile is forced to make an impossible decision: save John or save her people.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Todd 2019

Ackerman, Sara

Summary: "Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested. Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband. As rumors swirl and questions about his loyalties surface, Violet believes Ella knows something....

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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACK

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P ACK

Sloan, Holly Goldberg

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Holly Goldberg Sloan, a hilarious and heartfelt novel for fans of Maria Semple and Emma Straub about a family trying to restore a ramshackle beachside motel-and their own lives. What good was thinking the future only held cloudy skies? Wasn't the reality that pieces of blue were always there, waiting to break through? When Paul Hill drowns in a surfing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLO

Kingsbury, Karen.

Summary: In 1941, Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens--Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIN

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