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Keeper of lost children [large print] / Sadeqa Johnson.

Johnson, Sadeqa, (author.).

Summary:

"Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black American GIs, Ethel feels compelled to help find these children homes. Philadelphia-born Ozzie Phillips volunteers for the recently desegregated army in 1948, eager to make his mark in the world. While serving in Manheim, Germany, he meets a local woman, Jelka, and the two embark on a relationship that will impact their lives forever. In 1965 Maryland, Sophia Clark is given an opportunity to attend a prestigious all-white boarding school and escape her heartless parents. While at the school, she discovers a secret that upends her world and sends her on a quest to unravel her own identity. Toggling between the lives of these three individuals, Keeper of Lost Children explores how one woman's vision will change the course of countless lives, and demonstrates that love in its myriad of forms-familial, parental, and forbidden, even love of self-can be transcendent."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9798891647886
  • Physical Description: 613 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2026.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes author's note with background historical information.
Regular print version previously published by: 37 Ink, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-610).

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Subject:
Multiracial children > Germany > Fiction.
Americans > Germany > Fiction.
Military spouses > Fiction.
African American soldiers > Fiction.
Adoption agencies > Fiction.
Germany > History > 1945-1955 > Fiction.
Maryland > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre:
Social problem fiction.
Historical fiction.
Large print books.

Available copies

  • 11 of 34 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 3 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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  • 8 current holds with 34 total copies.
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