Book Events for wendyrs
Events within the books in wendyrs's library
1950s
2010 Copiapó mining accident
- Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar
20th century
74th Annual Hunger Games
75th Annual Hunger Games
9/11 Attacks
African-American Civil Rights Movement
The arrest of Warren Jeffs
- The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice by Rebecca Musser
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Black Lives Matter
The Blitz
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)
- Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner (1940)
Bloody Sunday
Borden Murders
Charleston (S.C.) Slave Insurrection, 1822
The children taken from parents at Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas.
- The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice by Rebecca Musser
Christmas
Cocoanut Grove Night Club fire
Cold War
Discovery of human remains, December 2010
Enid Tower escapes from a cult known as The Family
Fat Tuesday
February Revolution
Financial Crisis of 2008
French Resistance
Fugitive Slave Act
Gemini 9
Good Friday Agreement
Great Depression
- Rainwater by Sandra Brown
- To Kill a Mockingbird [Paperback] by Harper Lee (Author)
- The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls: A Novel by Anton DiSclafani
Great Recession
- The Recessionistas by Alexandra Lebenthal (2008)
The Great War
Haiti earthquake
- The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz
Halloween 1958
Hiroshima Bombing
- The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
Holocaust
- The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
- The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival by Louise Murphy
- Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel by Yann Martel (1945)
- The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (1945)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
- Sarah's Key 1st (first) edition Text Only by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
Indiana flood
- The Sisters: A Novel by Nancy Jensen (1937)
Influenza pandemic
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
Iraq War
Japanese Tsunami
Japanese-American Internment
Jazz Age
Last execution of capital punishment in Iceland
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (1830-12-1)
Lent
Loray Mill Strike
- The Last Ballad: A Novel by Wiley Cash (1929)
Manhattan Project
- The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
Mardi Gras
Mary Claire Fitzhugh is abducted in 1967
Mid-term death of Barry Fairbrother
Middle Ages
murder
- Accused: A Rosato & DiNunzio Novel by Lisa Scottoline (of Fiona Gardner)
Murder of Ann Marie Fahey
Murder of Danny Stutzman aka little Boy Blue
- Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Gregg Olsen
Napoleonic Wars
Northern Ireland peace process
October Revolution
Olympic Games
Orphan Train
Prohibition in the USA
Project Gemini
Quarter Quell
Recession of 2008
Rwandan Genocide
The Sack of Magdeburg
- The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch (1630)
September 11 Attacks
- The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
- The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller
- Submission by Amy Waldman
Siege at Ruby Ridge
Spring Offensive
Suicide
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Hannah Baker's)
Tate–LaBianca murders
- Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry (1969-08)
Thanksgiving
TransAtlantic flight of Alcock & Brown
- TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann (1919)
Tsunami
United States occupation of Veracruz
Vel' d' Hiv'
Vietnam War
World War I
- A Good Woman by Danielle Steel
- The Light Between Oceans: A Novel by M.L. Stedman
- Only Time Will Tell (Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer
- Stella Bain by Anita Shreve
- [The Girl You Left Behind] (By: Jojo Moyes) [published: September, 2012] by Jojo Moyes (1918)
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
- Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1914 ∙ 1918)
World War II
- At the Water's Edge: A Novel by Sara Gruen
- Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
- The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children) by Ransom Riggs
- The New Neighbor: A Novel by Leah Stewart
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Only Time Will Tell (Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer
- Playing with fire by Tess Gerritsen
- The Ring by Danielle Steel
- Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
- The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer
- Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel by Yann Martel (1945)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1945)
- Echoes by Danielle Steel (1945)
- The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan (1945)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945)
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1945)
- Sarah's Key 1st (first) edition Text Only by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
- The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (1945)
- The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival by Louise Murphy (1945)
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1945)
World War II, German Occupation of France
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1944)
- Echoes by Danielle Steel (1944)
- Sarah's Key 1st (first) edition Text Only by Tatiana de Rosnay (1944)
World War II, German Occupation of Poland
World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands
World War II, Invasion of Poland
World War II, Pacific Theater
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (1945-09-02)
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1945-09-02)
Y2K
Yugoslav Wars
- The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (1991-1995)