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Liane Young

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Historical Fiction, Military Historical Fiction, African American

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Liane Young is a retired director of corporate communications for the Office of Naval Research. She is the winner of the 2012 Virginia Screenwriting Competition for Operation Firefly, which tells the amazing, little-known story of the US Army’s first all-black test platoon, the “Triple Nickles” 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. Currently living with her husband, Tom, in Virginia, she is working on her next novel, The Himalayan Teapot.

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Average rating: 4.28 · 36 ratings · 13 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Operation Firefly 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Loons of Lake Louise by Stephanie Racer, Liane Young (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Bronte's Big Busines (Australian Girl Book 1) by Liane Young (Goodreads Author), Tamlyn Teow (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Writing Historical Fiction

I love stories that are woven together by a warp of fictional people and a weft of true events. And I think they're even better when I find myself googling something I'm reading, then saying, "I didn't know that!"

The feedback I'm getting about Operation Firefly , the story about the Army's first Black paratroopers-- the Triple Nickles--is amazing, and almost all of it begins with "I never knew Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 01, 2014 11:52 • Tags: 555th-airborne, african-american, firefighters, historal-fiction, operation-firefly, parachutist, smokejumpers, triple-nickles

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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City

by Bench Ansfield

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The Palace of Eros

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On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

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