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001 on1346152393
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005 20230622114929.0
008 221018s2023 nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a 2022048106
020 _a9780593440315
_q(trade paperback)
020 _a0593440315
_q(trade paperback)
035 _a(OCoLC)on1346152393
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
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043 _ae-uk-en
050 0 0 _aPR6107.A974
_bL37 2023
082 0 0 _a823/.92
_223/eng/20221021
100 1 _aGaynor, Hazel,
_eauthor.
_9138205
245 1 4 _aThe last lifeboat /
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBerkley,
_c2023.
300 _a370 pages ;
_c21 cm
500 _aIncludes readers guide.
520 _a"Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her home awakens a strength in Alice she'd long forgotten. Determined to do her part, she finds a role perfectly suited to her experience as a schoolteacher--to help evacuate Britain's children overseas. 1940, London: Lily Nichols once dreamed of using her mathematical talents for more than tabulating the cost of groceries, but life, and love, charted her a different course. With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily's humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder. With her husband gone and bombs raining down, Lily is faced with an impossible choice: keep her son and daughter close, knowing she may not be able to protect them, or enroll them in a risky evacuation scheme, where safety awaits so very far away. When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic. Alice and Lily, strangers to each other--one on land, the other at sea--will quickly become one another's very best hope as their lives are fatefully entwined"--
648 7 _a1939-1945
_2fast
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_zEngland
_vFiction.
650 0 _aShipwrecks
_vFiction.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xEvacuation of civilians
_zEngland
_vFiction.
_9138206
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xWomen
_vFiction.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xChildren
_zCanada
_vFiction.
_9138207
651 0 _aEngland
_vFiction.
651 0 _aAtlantic Ocean
_vFiction.
_9138208
655 7 _aFiction.
_2fast
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
_2fast
655 7 _aNovels.
_2fast
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aDomestic fiction.
_2lcgft
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aGaynor, Hazel.
_tLast lifeboat.
_bFirst edition
_dNew York : Berkley, 2023
_z9780593440322
_w(DLC) 2022048107
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