{"product_id":"9781936449385","title":"Not to Be Forgiven","description":"It's 1942. The world's at war, and even small-town America is awash in fear. . .and hatred.\u003cp\u003eSis Greggory's beloved brother, Danny, is serving in North Africa. The war news is bad; the Axis powers seem invincible. Where is Danny? They can only wonder. Sis lives and breathes civilian war drives, trying to keep him safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Hiram's Spring, Nebraska, is shocked to learn it will host unthinkable guests. German Prisoners of War will be shipped into their valley, to work in their fields. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore it is over, the lives of Sis, Danny, and Horst, a German prisoner of war, are forever changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not to be Forgiven\" is at once a nostalgic rendering of a child's patriotism and a hard-hitting portrayal of the deep, ugly emotions war engenders. It will make you laugh, and it will shock you to your core.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Not to be Forgiven' explores the explosive emotions that ripped through the home front as World War II raged on and on. With the sure-handed strokes of a master writer, Peterson tells of friendship marred by hatred and fear, and of the way in which love and understanding can finally redeem the past. A magical and mesmerizing story.\" \u003cbr\u003eMargaret Cole, author of Buffalo Bill's Dead Now, a Wind River Mystery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Not to be Forgiven' is a haunting novel about how the war twists the life of a young girl living thousands of miles from World War II battlefields. Both historian and storyteller, Nancy M. Peterson, whose nonfiction books on the West are classics, writes how a wartime friendship flares into hatred, leaving scars that cause a lifetime of regret. Set against a background of wartime rural America, Not to be Forgiven is not to be forgotten.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra Dalls, author of True Sisters and The Quilt Walk\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hugo House Publishers, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055197470960,"sku":"9781936449385","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936449385_p0.jpg?v=1763659638","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936449385","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}