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Author
Series
Virgin River volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly-widowed Marcie Sullivan tracks down Ian Buchanan, the man responsible for saving her husband's life years ago, and finds an emotionally scarred man who needs her help to heal his wounded soul during a season of miracles.
Series
Classic holiday DVD collection volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mason is helping a child who'd otherwise find disappointment under the Christmas tree. The boy's war-widowed mom notes the gesture, and she's drawn to the handsome stranger.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Polish
Description
In the wake of World War II, an American soldier (Norman played by Scott Wilson) forms a delicate friendship with a war widow (Emilia played by Maja Komorowska) amid the devastation of 1946 Poland. In spite of the language barrier, painful memories of their past, and the many cultural divisions that separate them, Norman and Emilia dare to steal a moment of happiness together.
Publisher
Dist. in the U.S. by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn took a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuân Ngoc Nguyẽn explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Albanian
Description
Sundance's triple award-winning film is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. To provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on exclusive interviews with the survivors of her husband's unit, research into the military leadership and accountability and her own unique vantage point as a gold star widow, the author sets out to find the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death.
11) Twenty-four eyes
Series
Criterion collection volume 442
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
日本語
Description
An elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher's unwavering commitment to her students, her profession, and her sense of morality. It takes a simultaneously sober and sentimental look at the epic themes of aging, war, and death.
Author
Series
Billie Walker mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
War correspondent Billie Walker is happy to be back home in Sydney, but for her the heady postwar days of 1946 are tarnished by the loss of her father and the disappearance in Europe of her husband, Jack. She reopens her late father's business, a private investigation agency, and when a young man, the son of European emigrants, goes missing, finds herself on a dangerous new trail that will lead up to both the highest levels of Sydney society and down...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days to her own children. Florence was an unlikely warrior....
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