Before World War II, Japanese Americans worked hard to adapt to American life while creating tight-knit communities. But after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, everything changed. The U.S. government sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent into internment camps. Learn the sad history of the camps, the reasons behind their creation, how the internees made the best of their deplorable situation, and how they finally received an official apology from the US government.
How do you break away from the ongoing plot lines of a successful romantic women's fiction, family saga series to meet the continuing demands from a loyal readership eager for stories centered on Christmas? This was the question facing the beloved, From Women's Pen's collaborative team comprised of Annie Acorn and Juliette Hill as they developed their highly successful Captain's Point Stories series writing as Charlotte Kent. Enter A Chester's Christmas, the first full-length offering of a four story arch of Christmas novellas and novelettes, each of which can be read as a stand alone piece or as one of the mini-series. Designed to be enjoyed concurrently with the first eight Captain's Point novels, A Chester's Christmas follows employees of Chester's Crab Shack, a mainstay restaurant at Montgomery Marina. Primary characters from the novels have walk-ons, and characters from the mini-series will be seen briefly from time to time in the main novels. Ongoing fans of the Captain's Point Stories series will immediately feel at home, and those experiencing Captain's Point for the first time will have no problem following the storylines. So settle yourself into a comfortable chair by the fireplace, sip on a cup of spiced tea, and nibble a gingerbread cookie as you wrap yourself in the love, laughter, family warmth, romance and second chances of a Captain's Point Christmas. This is one book you will reread every holiday season! Contains: One Sweet Christmas - novelette A Magic Cup of Christmas Tea - novella Finally Home for Christmas - novella An Unexpected Christmas - novelette
A New York City drama teacher risks her life to expose a potentially deadly public hoax in this “most uncommon thriller” (New York Herald Tribune). Olivia Hudson, a drama teacher at a Manhattan girl’s school, refuses to let her uncle John Paul Marcus play the role of dupe in a real-life revenge story. Uncle John is a beloved war veteran, a New York institution, and a hard-working philanthropist with an unimpeachable reputation. His mistake—an honorable one, at that—was disclosing the financial chicanery of industrial heir Raymond Pankerman, and it could cost John his life. Raymond has staged the perfect crime, and the perfect frame-up, to destroy the old man. He has everything he needs: a failed and penniless playwright who’d sell his soul if the price was right, a budding television starlet looking for a breakout role, and a susceptible public suckered into believing a supernatural swindle that’s making headlines. As a good man is taken down by the outlandish claims of an “otherworldly” publicity-seeking beauty nicknamed the Dream Walker, Olivia refuses to stand idly by—especially since she has the talent to outwit and outplay an actress at her own duplicitous game. Inspired by the mob mentality of the postwar McCarthy hearings, Charlotte Armstrong’s The Dream Walker (also published as Alibi for Murder) is both an ingeniously clever mystery of double-crosses and triple-twists, and a still-relevant cautionary tale about the irreversible consequences of tabloid journalism and the gullibility of the masses.
In the future, the LightSpeed Pioneers is the ultimate training program for the next generation of astronauts! Join teenaged Centauri Squad as they prepare for interstellar voyages, one training mission at a time. But the dangers they face aren’t only simulated! After a landing operation on the Red Planet goes wrong, Centauri Squad finds itself separated, and on the wrong side of Mars. And to make matters worse, they have just stumbled onto some dangerous men with a dangerous secret.... This exciting adventure also includes real science facts and a bonus activities section!
This volume explores how pluralistic communities thrived in California’s mining hinterland as well as how immigrants and California Natives mobilized and mitigated power inequalities through their daily experiences of identity expression, community cohesion, and labor relations.
Why have the minutiae of how parents raise their children become routine sources of public debate and policy making? This book provides in-depth answers to these features drawing on a wide range of sources from sociology, history, anthropology and psychology, covering developments in both Europe and North America.
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