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ID: 547272
Title: Love in the Library
Author: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Narrator: Sura Siu
Format: Unabridged
Length: 00:14:32
Language: English
Release date: 01-11-22
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Historical
Summary:
To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they werent humanthat was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coastelderly people, children, babiesnow live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesnt know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camps tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isnt the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day? Maggie Tokuda-Halls elegant and true love story about her grandparents for listeners of all ages sheds light on a shameful chapter of American history.
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 547272
Title: Love in the Library
Author: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Narrator: Sura Siu
Format: Unabridged
Length: 00:14:32
Language: English
Release date: 01-11-22
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Historical
Summary:
To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they werent humanthat was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coastelderly people, children, babiesnow live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesnt know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camps tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isnt the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day? Maggie Tokuda-Halls elegant and true love story about her grandparents for listeners of all ages sheds light on a shameful chapter of American history.
Contact: [email protected]