01596cam a2200325 4500 71456428 TxAuBib 20100930120000.0 100419s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010015877 9780764204975 0764204971 9780764208133 0764208136 TxAuBib Austin, Lynn N. While We're Far Apart / Lynn Austin. While we are far apart. Minneapolis, Minn : Bethany House, 2010. 411 p. ; 23 cm. Includes discussion questions. "In an unassuming apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, three lives intersect as the reality of war invades their lives. Young Esther is heartbroken when her father decides to enlist in the army shortly after the death of her mother. Penny Goodrich has been in love with Eddie Shaffer for as long as she can remember; now that Eddie's wife is dead, Penny feels that she's been given a second chance and offers to care for his children, hoping he will finally notice her and marry her after the war. And elderly Mr. Mendel, the landlord, waits for the war to end to hear what has happened to his son trapped in war-torn Hungary"--Cover, p. 2. 20100930. CHRISTIAN FICTION. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Landlord and tenant Fiction. HISTORICAL FICTION. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. Love stories.