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1) The taster
Author
Language
English
Description
Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined--one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship... In early 1943, Magda Ritter's 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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian, not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners, but for Emmy, who sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins...
5) The traitor
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Kensington tade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on the true story of the White Rose--the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime-- The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny, during one of history's darkest hours. In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. The leaflets are hidden in public places,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gisela must hold on to hope and love despite all odds in the midst of a war-torn country.Gisela Cramer is an American living in eastern Germany with her cousin Ella Reinhardt. When the Red Army invades, they must leave their home to escape to safety in Berlin. However, Ella is a nurse and refuses to leave, sending her young daughters with Gisela. During their journey, Gisela meets Mitch Edwards, an escaped British POW. She pretends she is his wife...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At Heim Hochland, a Nazi sanctioned maternity home in Bavaria, three women's fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant student from Berlin--an Aryan beauty, she's secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde, only 18, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official's child. And Irma, a 44-year-old nurse, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose....
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
543 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This never-before-translated masterpiece is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
9) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Plot to kill Hitler volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, November 1943. The city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the air raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save...
10) Escape
Author
Series
Plot to kill Hitler volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the attempt on Hitler's life, the Hoffmanns must flee Berlin, but they have to leave Father behind at the mercy of the Gestapo.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015, c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1941 twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and he begins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group that opposes the Nazis." -- Provided by publisher.
12) Execution
Author
Series
Plot to kill Hitler volume 2
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The action-packed second installment of the series based on the real-life scheme to take down one of history's greatest monsters!" --
Author
Series
Songs in the night volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage--in name only--to a man who can help raise her three children. Anton seeks something too--atonement for failing to protect his young students from the wrath of the Nazis. But neither he nor Elisabeth expects their lives to be shaken...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xviii, 422 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Clara Vine, a half-Jewish Anglo-German, uses her unique access to the upper echelons of pre-war Nazi society to spy for her native Britain. The novel richly fuses fact and fiction with a cast of real Nazis and their British admirers, such as the Mitford sisters and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Clara Vine, through her friendship with Eva Braun, finds herself enmeshed in a plot to assassinate Hitler" --
"Set in Europe, in 1938, during the tense...
17) Alone in Berlin
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
How did an ordinary, middle-aged couple become a symbol of defiance against Nazi brutality? This tale of courage unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of Berlin in 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. Their son is killed fighting on the frontlines. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages...