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Author Dempsey, Joan, author.

Title This is how it begins : a novel / Joan Dempsey.

Publication Info. Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION DEMPSEY    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F DEMPSEY    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F DEMPSEY    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F DEMPSEY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC DEMPSEY, J    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F DEMPSEY, J.    Check Shelf
Description 399 pages ; 21 cm
Note Includes Reader's Guide.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-399).
Summary "In 2009, eighty-five-year-old art professor Ludka Zeilonka gets drawn into a political firestorm when her grandson Tommy is among a group of gay Massachusetts teachers fired for allegedly silencing Christian kids in high school classrooms. The ensuing battle to reinstate the teachers raises the specter of Ludka's World War II past--a past she's spent a lifetime trying to forget ... As Ludka's influential family defends Tommy under increasingly vicious conditions, a stranger with connections to her past shows up and threatens to expose her for illegally hoarding a valuable painting presumed stolen by the Nazis. Only one other person knew about the painting--a man Ludka's been trying to find for sixty years"--Amazon.com.
Subject Gay teachers -- Dismissal of -- Fiction.
Art teachers -- Fiction.
Painting -- Fiction.
Art thefts -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Germany -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Fiction.
Art treasures in war -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Massachusetts -- Fiction.
ISBN 9781631523083 (paperback)
1631523082 (paperback)
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