The Resource The Sound of the Hours
The Sound of the Hours
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The item The Sound of the Hours represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The Sound of the Hours represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- Divided by loyalties, brought together by warSeptember, 1943. Tuscany, Italy.In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds their breath. Even the bells fall silent. Everything Vittoria Guidi knows and loves is at risk. German troops occupy the mountains around her home, as America's Buffalo Soldiers prepare to invade. As Vittoria's country is torn in two, so is her conscience. Should she side with her Scots-Italian father or her Fascist mother? Should she do what she is told – or what she believes in?Frank Chapel, a young, black American soldier fighting with the Buffalo soldiers for a country that refuses him the vote, is unlike anyone Vittoria has ever met. In the chaos, they find each other – but can their growing love overcome prejudice and war?
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9781408857366
- Label
- The Sound of the Hours
- Title
- The Sound of the Hours
- Statement of responsibility
- Karen Campbell
- Subject
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- trueLove stories
- trueWorld War II
- trueVillages
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
- Romance
- trueWar and society
- trueInterracial romance
- trueHistory
- trueRacism
- trueMilitary occupation
- trueIndependence in women
- trueInterpersonal attraction
- trueItaly -- History -- 20th century
- American Fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueLiterary Fiction
- War Fiction
- trueWar stories
- trueRomantic love
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueAfrican American soldiers
- trueWar -- Psychological aspects
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Divided by loyalties, brought together by warSeptember, 1943. Tuscany, Italy.In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds their breath. Even the bells fall silent. Everything Vittoria Guidi knows and loves is at risk. German troops occupy the mountains around her home, as America's Buffalo Soldiers prepare to invade. As Vittoria's country is torn in two, so is her conscience. Should she side with her Scots-Italian father or her Fascist mother? Should she do what she is told – or what she believes in?Frank Chapel, a young, black American soldier fighting with the Buffalo soldiers for a country that refuses him the vote, is unlike anyone Vittoria has ever met. In the chaos, they find each other – but can their growing love overcome prejudice and war?
- Summary
- A sweeping and romantic novel about love, loss, and conflict in an occupied Italian town during World War II
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- 10796205
- Cataloging source
- SALS
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- Campbell, Karen
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- Literary Fiction
- American Fiction
- War Fiction
- History
- Historical Fiction
- Romance
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Sound of the Hours
- Control code
- BORROWBOX:BLM_635026
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
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- True
- Isbn
- 9781408857366
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- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- The Sound of the Hours
- Control code
- BORROWBOX:BLM_635026
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781408857366
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
Subject
- trueAfrican American soldiers
- American Fiction
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistory
- trueIndependence in women
- trueInterpersonal attraction
- trueInterracial romance
- trueItaly -- History -- 20th century
- trueLiterary Fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueLove stories
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMilitary occupation
- trueRacism
- Romance
- trueRomantic love
- trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
- trueVillages
- trueWar -- Psychological aspects
- War Fiction
- trueWar and society
- trueWar stories
- trueWorld War II
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