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Two young boys encounter the best and worst of humanity during the Holocaust in this powerful read that USA Today called "as memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.”
Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away,...
Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away,...
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Whom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved? At the height of World War II, Berlin has become a city of women. Sigrid Schröder, the model German soldier's wife, goes to work every day, does her best with her rations, cares for her meddling mother-in-law, and ignores the horrors of the regime. But behind this façade Sigrid dreams of her lover, lost in the chaos of war. Her lost lover is a Jew. And Sigrid is not the only one with secrets....
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Code name Verity volume 1
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In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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331 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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Created as an avenging golem in the image of a man's daughter who was killed by the Nazis, Vera, the Jew the Nazis cannot kill, is made for vengeance but begins to wonder if she's more than the wrath her creator infused within her.
8) Red milk
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In England in 1962, an Icelandic man is found dead on a train bound for Cheltenham Spa. In his possession, policemen find a map on which a swastika has been drawn with a red pen. Who was he, and where was he going?
10) The project
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Random House
Pub. Date
[c2011]
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275 p. ; 22 cm.
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After discovering a terrible secret hidden in the most boring book in the world, Iowa fifteen-year-olds Luke and Tommy find out that members of a secret Nazi organization intend to use this information to rewrite history.
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Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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320 pages ; 21 cm.
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In early 1943, Magda Ritters parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Young German women are expected to do their duty working for the Reich or marrying to produce strong, healthy children. After an interview with the civil service, Magda is assigned to the Berghof, Hitlers mountain retreat. Only after weeks of training does she learn her assignment: she will be one of several young women...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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306 pages
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A tale based on the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings traces the experiences of one of the master artist's lovers in 1900 Vienna, whose experiences with anti-Semitism inspire the survival of her niece when the Nazis invade Austria decades later.
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
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375 pages ; 24 cm
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With his reputation already on the line for refusing to join the Nazi party, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigates a series of brutal murders during the Third Reich's forced nightly blackouts during the brutally cold winter of 1939 in Berlin.
15) AbrakaPOW
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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391 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"A New York City girl moves with her family to a Texas POW camp her father runs during WWII, when, during a magic show she performs, Nazi prisoners escape; she's the only one who can find and recapture them"--
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
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437 p. ; 24 cm.
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Twenty years after being embroiled in the Nazi regime of 1934 Berlin, detective Bernie Gunther pursues a quieter life in Havana but is thwarted by an encounter with a killer from his past who is murdered at the same time a former lover reappears.
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Prisoner of night and fog volume 1
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Blackstone/Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2014, ©2014
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9 CDs (10.75 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter.
19) The winter guest
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"Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation. The constant threat of arrest has made everyone in their village a spy, and turned neighbor against neighbor. Though rugged, independent Helena and pretty, gentle Ruth couldn't be more different, they are staunch allies in protecting their family from the threats the war brings closer...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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343 pages ; 25 cm
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Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon to become a fascist propagandist. When World War II makes landfall in the City of Lights, Mielle falls under Jane’s spell, growing ever more intoxicated by her glamour, self-possession, and reckless confidence....
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