01789cam a2200349 i 4500 187513979 TxAuBib 20141124120000.0 130909s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013031148 9781597099592 alk. paper 1597099597 alk. paper TxAuBib rda Shoemaker, Karen Gettert, 1957- The meaning of names : a novel / Karen Gettert Shoemaker. First edition. Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2014] 219 pages : Paperback. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of German descent, must find the strength to keep her family safe from the effects of a war that threatened to consume the whole world. The Meaning of Names re-creates a world gone by that speaks eloquently to modern day issues" -- Provided by publisher. 20141124. German American women Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 United States Fiction. German Americans Violence against Fiction. Familes Fiction. Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Fiction. Nebraska Fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction.