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Author
Publisher
Planeta Internacional
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Matelda, la matriarca de la familia Cabrelli, siempre ha sido una mujer fuerte y decidida, pero es hasta ahora, al final de su vida, que está determinada a desentrañar la gran historia de amor de su madre, Domenica. Un secreto guardado durante años: el triángulo amoroso que involucra a Silvio, un amigo de la infancia, y al apuesto capitán escocés, John Lawrie McVicars, el padre que Matelda nunca conoció. Mientras acompañamos a Domenica Cabrelli...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Description
Author Jacob Sager Weinstein and New York Times bestselling illustrator Eliza Wheeler deliver a stunning picture book about a young Jewish girl fleeing Nazi occupation with her parents. While her parents work at their store, she plays with her grandmother, reads her favorite books, and climbs trees. Drawing on the childhood experiences of the author's mother, this story of family, immigration, and identity shows the boundless power of love. Vienna,...
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As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
June 1945. Even as the people of France celebrate the end of World War II, they are overwhelmed by the recovery work which lies ahead. Every bridge, road, and rail line, every church, school, and hospital has been destroyed. Disparate factions, from Communists to Resistance fighters to those who supported appeasement of the Nazis, must somehow unite and rebuild their devastated country. Asher lost his family during the war, and in revenge, he served...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 29 cm
Description
"Star Trek actor, activist, and author George Takei shares his empowering and moving story about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII"--
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
220 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates at the end : portraits and illustrations, ; 23 cm
Description
"'Te escribo desde el campo de trabajo de Birkenau, donde me encuentro ahora. Estoy sano, trabajo y espero noticias tuyas.' Esta es una carta que uno de los presos judíos escribió para tranquilizar a sus familiares y ocultar la horrible realidad de los campos de concentración. Esta fachada es parte de la Brief-Aktion, 'Operación Cartas,' un intercambio epistolar entre los presos de Auschwitz y sus allegados que buscaba encubrir las atrocidades...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
abril de 2023.
Physical Desc
539 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations and portraits ; 24 cm
Description
"La verdadera historia de Rudi Vrba, el primer judío que escapó de Auschwitz y trató de advertir al mundo de las atrocidades nazis. En abril de 1944, Rudolf Vrba se convirtió en el primer judío en escapar de Auschwitz. Contra todo pronóstico, tras esquivar por poco las balas alemanas, él y su compañero de fuga escalaron montañas y cruzaron ríos para alcanzar la libertad. Vrba quería advertir a los últimos judíos de Europa del destino...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Alemania, 1939. Al inicio de la guerra y tras la muerte de su madre, Hanna Rombauer es enviada a vivir con sus t̕os. Inmersa en una vida de lujo que nunca esper̤, pronto es comprometida con un oficial de las SS; sin embargo, la independencia y tenacidad que su madre amorosamente le inculc̤ son inapropiadas para la futura esposa de un oficial en ascenso. Sin consultarle, Hanna es enviada a una elegante villa en las afueras de Berl̕n, donde deber̀...
Author
Series
Emmeline Lake chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A novel featuring plucky aspiring journalist Emmy Lake as she navigates life, love, and friendship in London during World War II"--
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