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Sara’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Sara’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Sara Ackerman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Honolulu, The United States
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June 2013
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Radar Girls
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published
2021
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13 editions
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The Codebreaker's Secret
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2022
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Red Sky Over Hawaii
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published
2020
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13 editions
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Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers
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2018
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The Lieutenant's Nurse
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2019
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12 editions
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The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
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expected publication
2024
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6 editions
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Write That Novel in the New Year: 10 Steps
1. Be Smitten. Have a book idea that you are in love with. Your idea is the spark that sets everything in motion so it has to be near and dear to your heart. Remember, writing a novel is a long-term project, one that will take months or years to complete and you need to be fully invested. For me, the idea has usually been germinating for some time–in some cases a whole lifetime–and I’ve been daydr
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Sara’s Recent Updates
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Sara Ackerman
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Tina's
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Hi Tina, thank you, I'm so happy to hear it! Interesting question...no, I did not know what Duke was up to during wartime. So, I just looked it up and came upon this article. Sounds like they were still out there. Would be fascinating to learn more!
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Sara Ackerman
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Sara Ackerman
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Susan Siegismund's
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Hi Susan, what an honor to hear this:) Thank you for letting me know. My next project is a dual timeline novel about a pilot's daring race across the Pacific in the golden age of aviation–and the woman who uncovers her buried history sixty years late
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| Raw, real and richly layered, Hula is a love letter to Hawai’i, most especially Keaukaha. The words in this novel hit like a hurricane–powerful and intense and imbued with every nuance of island life, from hanabata days to the final paddle out. Brill ...more | |
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| Once again, Amanda Skenadore dazzles us with a spellbinding story, a vividly drawn setting, and characters that leap off the pages. I was fascinated from start to finish and could not put this book down. This is historical fiction at its finest! | |
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| I loved this book!! Noelle Salazar delivers another knock-out WWII novel with Angels of the Resistance. Her writing shines in this intimate and beautiful look at one family of Dutch women, and the lengths they will go to protect their own. Haunting, ...more | |
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| Wonderful book!! The War Librarian is an empowering tale of sisterhood and sacrifice, reminding us of the importance of standing up for what is right in the world–even in the face of war and great peril. Timely and enlightening! | |
"We have another "Pearl Harbor" book! (I think). Maybe we will have character crossovers? Hmmm"
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"The Codebreaker’s Secret by Sara Ackerman had me hooked from reading the first page. During the Second World War, in 1943, Isabel Cooper, a brilliant codebreaker, is stationed from her job in Washington, D.C. after helping to break the German Enigma "
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"What a fantastic book! Historical fiction fans will love this atmospheric WWII book from Sara Ackerman. I read it in a matter of days (rare for me) and by the end of it I was looking up flights to Hawaii. This book has 2 timelines, equally engrossing"
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“Maybe that was the secret to dying—to live a life with so much heart that, when you go, you are never really gone.”
― The Codebreaker's Secret
― The Codebreaker's Secret
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