01584cam a2200313 4500 214840788 TxAuBib 20140328120000.0 130909s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013031148 9781597099592 1597099597 TxAuBib Shoemaker, Karen Gettert, 1957- The meaning of names : a novel / Karen Gettert Shoemaker. 1st ed. Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2014] 219 pages ; 20 cm. 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. 20140328. German American women Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 United States Fiction. Families Fiction. Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Fiction. Nebraska author. Nebraska Fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction.