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The long, terrible war years are over and the Nazis have been defeated. America's victorious soldiers are finally home, but the country they returned to was not the one they left. As they tried to pick up the pieces of their lives, to some it seemed like everything had changed. Women who had gone into the factories to produce the bombs, airplanes, and tanks needed to defeat the enemy were not always happy to embrace the pre-war roles once expected of them. They wanted to stay on the assembly line, not return to the kitchen. Negro soldiers who had fought for their country were now expected to take a backseat like they always had and were resented and even attacked when they didn't. More than one returning soldier, no matter what his skin color, had to ask himself whether the country he once knew had changed or if he was the one that had changed.<br/><br/>The McNally family of Tinder Street is changing as well. As they approach middle age, some are feeling their years as their children grow up and are beginning families and careers of their own. Birth rates are rising across the country. The economy is thriving, and the future looks bright.<br/><br/>Or does it? While the Nazis and their allies may have been defeated, there are new threats lurking on the horizon. Communism is spreading around the globe, McCarthyism and the Red Scare are turning neighbor against neighbor, and a dreaded epidemic is taking a terrible toll.<br/><br/>Readers will experience what it was like for the generations who came before us and how they prevailed through hard times and unimaginable setbacks in Baby Boom, the seventh book in the Tinder Street saga, a story New York Times bestselling author Nick Russell has felt compelled to write and has researched for years.