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1) Bagdad Cafe
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An off-beat comedy about a greasy spoon and a rusty gas pump in the Mojave desert, and mismatched characters who find paradise off the beaten track.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In 1865, a secret affair with the artist hired by her German Jewish father to paint his daughters' portraits forces Eva into a quick marriage and drives her to leave Berlin to seek a new life on the frontier of the American Southwest.
3) Assegai
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 12
Formats
Description
Leon Courtney, ladies' man and former lieutenant in the King's African Rifles, becomes a professional big game hunter and high-profile safari guide in the years leading up to WWI. On the eve of war, Leon is recruited by his uncle, commander of the British forces in East Africa, asks him to spy on his newest client, Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist with a secret agenda. Courtney also begins an affair with Otto's mistress, Eva, who has...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After escaping Germany during WWII, Jack and Sadie Rosenblum, together with their baby daughter, settle into a life of acting "English." In post-war England, however, no golf club will admit a Rosenblum. So Jack hatches a wild idea: he'll build his own. It's an obsession Sadie does not share, particularly when Jack relocates them to a thatched roof cottage in Dorset to embark on his project.
5) Eden's gate
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A wall has gone up and come down since the end of the Second World War, and Germany is once again united. As Berlin rebuilds, the German authorities ask the U.S. for help. Ex-Stasi Captain Helmut Speyer is wanted in his homeland for crimes committed in East Germany under the communist regime. And now Speyer and his group of commandos are up to something in their Montana compound-something that has Germany looking over its shoulder in fear.
Former...
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Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges--the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and cousin Tilda. Wyatt's account of the astonishing--not least to him--events leading up to his...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
Sophie Heller's family emigrated from Germany to Victory, a small town in Illinois, before World War II began. Now that the war has affected the town, the townspeople discriminate against Sophie and her family. When a train derails by accident, the Heller family is blamed. A teacher from the local high school comes to Sophie's rescue, and despite their cultural differences, a romance starts to bloom.
10) Her abundant joy
Author
Series
Texas star of destiny volume 3
Publisher
Avon Inspire
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
495 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Author
Formats
Description
In late March 1944, as Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear's intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves-murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect “pure-blood” Germans? The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. But after already...
12) Wait for me
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A farmer's daughter pursues a forbidden relationship with a German POW assigned to farmhand labor in 1945 Scotland, where their romance puts her home and his freedom at risk.
13) Curious notions
Author
Series
Crosstime traffic volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In a parallel-world 21st-century San Francisco where the Kaiser's Germany won World War One and went on to dominate the world, Paul Gomes and his father Lawrence are secret agents for our timeline, posing as traders from a foreign land. They run a storefront shop called Curious Notions, selling what is in our world routine consumer technology-record players, radios, cassette decks--all of which is better than anything in this world, but only by a...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"A revelatory history of the transformational decade after World War II when Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul, and the horrors of the Holocaust"--
Publisher
Goldhil Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c1977
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 678 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Relates the story of the Channel Island inhabitants who suffered pain and frustration during the German occupation during WWII. An uneasy relationship is maintained by the islanders and the Nazi's, whose constrictive regulations dampen morale.
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Description
Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (584 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This French drama chronicles the impact of World War II German occupation on a small village in central France. As the residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
19) Habermann
Publisher
distributed by Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A German mill owner spends WWII trying to save his wife, daughter and Czech workers from Nazi terror, but faces his own tragedy in the end. Based on true events surrounding the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia in 1945
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The German-Irish author recounts his young adulthood desire to escape the legacies of his German mother and cousin, entanglement in a bitter dispute between Catholic and Protestant neighbors, and exposure to forbidden cultural elements.
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