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Author:

Preston, Caroline, author.

Title:

The war bride's scrapbook : a novel in pictures / Caroline Preston.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Eccoan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Scrapbooks--Fiction.
War brides--United States--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction.
Nineteen forties--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Fiction.
Graphic novel.
Graphic novels.
Experimental fiction.
Historical fiction.

Contents:

Life before Perry: 1921-1943 -- Our romance: 1943 -- Life without Perry: 1943-1945 -- Homecoming 1945.

Summary:

A World War II love story, narrated through a new bride's dazzling array of vintage postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs, and more
When Lila Jerome's husband, Perry, ships out, she begins to feel his memory slipping away. She decides to start a "war bride's scrapbook" and creates a history of their love story through vintage postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs, and more. Years later her children find the scrapbook in a closet.

ISBN:

0061966924
9780061966927

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1002684068

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

DYPD423 -- Eldora Public Library (Eldora)

UGPF911 -- Indianola Public Library (Indianola)

CPPC926 -- Kalona Public Library (Kalona)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

TBPD706 -- Wilton Public Library (Wilton)