[bksvol-discuss] Re: Just Submitted: The War Against Miss Winter
- From: "Donna Goodin" <goodindo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:54:20 -0400
The book you have sounds fascinating. The War Against Miss Winter looks like
a really good book. There's a lot of stuff about living through WWII, I could
tell from just the proofing that I did. But I know that feeling of having too
much going on already. Maybe you can read it some other time.
Donna
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> That souonds lke fun reading, especially for some of use who lived
> through through those days. Too bad I already have 3 things to do, one
> of which is long but interesting--(Medals of Honor reipients--that's
> not the title but the content.--fascinating
> Cindy
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> --- On Wed, 6/10/09, Donna Goodin <goodindo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > From: Donna Goodin <goodindo@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Just Submitted: The War Against Miss Winter
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 7:56 AM
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> > Well, slowly but surely Im
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> > pile of books I accumulated over the winter. I just
> > submitted the following in
> > case anyone wants to validate, The War Against Miss Winter,
> > by Kathryn Miller
> > Haines. The scan was very clean, all pages have been
> > checked and headers
> > removed. I havent read it yet, but this looks
> > like a very literate,
> > well-written mystery. It was another recommendation
> > from the proprietor of our
> > local mystery bookstore. The long synopsisas
> > provided by Bookshare follows.
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> > It's 1943, and the war in Europe
> > and the Pacific is
> > escalating. At home in New York City, ordinary citizens are
> > feeling the effects
> > as the war has slowly taken over nearly every part of their
> > lives, with food
> > rations, frequent air raids, blackouts and propaganda signs
> > delivering ominous
> > warnings about the enemy. Against this backdrop,
> > Rosie Winter has her own
> > problems to deal with: her boyfriend unexpectedly enlisted
> > in the Navy and she
> > hasn't heard from him in weeks; she hasn't had an
> > acting job in six months; and
> > her theatrical rooming house is threatening to throw her
> > out if she doesn't get
> > cast in something soon. To top it off she's been forced
> > to take a
> > parttime job as a clerk for a lowbrow detective
> > agency. When her boss
> > turns up dead, Rosie finds herself caught up in a mystery
> > that involves the
> > mob, the theater crowd, Manhattan's high society, and a
> > missing (and notorious)
> > script. Led by the unforgettable Rosie Winter, THE
> > WAR AGAINST MISS WINTER is
> > an exceptionally evocative and original novel that
> > beautifully brings to life
> > the people and the places of World War II.
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