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Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"An uncovered family secret sets one woman on the journey of a lifetime through the history of Britain's WWII spy network and glamorous 1930s Paris in an effort to understand her past, save her family, and claim her future"--
"Caroline Payne thinks it is just another day at work when she receives a call from Mat Hammon, a doctoral candidate, who has uncovered a dark and scandalous family secret: her British great-aunt defected to the Nazis to marry...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"London, 1940. Emmeline Lake is doing her bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent suddenly seem achievable. But the job turns out to be working as a typist for the fierce and renowned advice columnist Henrietta Bird. Emmy is disappointed, but gamely bucks up and buckles down....
Author
Series
War that saved my life volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First William Morrow paperback edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (308, 12 pages ; 21 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
After her kind mentor is arrested because of his Jewish heritage, a young baker's apprentice in Normandy engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (391 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.
As England becomes enmeshed in the early days of World War II and the men are away fighting, the women of Chilbury village forge an uncommon bond. They defy the Vicar's stuffy edicts to close the choir and instead 'carry on singing,' resurrecting themselves as the Chilbury Ladies' Choir. An enchanting ensemble story that shuttles from village intrigue to romance to the heartbreaking matters of life...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
8 books (368 pages ; 24 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It's why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began. And it's why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as treasured as the women she flies with. Then one fateful...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 books (315 pages ; 21 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 kit (359 pages ; 22 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Near the end of 1939, ten-year-old Audrey Hepburn flew from boarding school in England into the Netherlands, which would soon become a war zone. What she experienced in five years of Nazi occupation has never been explored until now. Dutch Girl sets the story straight, revealing the Nazi past of Audrey's parents and how their daughter dealt with this information. The book examines her career as an acclaimed young ballerina, her involvement with the...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
25th anniversary edition REVISED.
Physical Desc
8 books (252 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"When first published a generation ago, Witnesses to the Holocaust gave voice to the survivors and their liberators living in MInnesota and told their stories; it was timely, even urgent. Now the book is an indispensable record of those who rebuilt their lives in the Twin Cities area and its readers must now become witnesses to the witnesses. Their stories must be told generation to generation. Sadly, we live in a world desperately in need of resilience...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
10 books (262, 11 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg--Hitler's 'chief philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology--interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents, which are contextualized by the authors: The result is a unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia. A groundbreaking historical contribution,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota, gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Cooper square press ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 541 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Hitler's Shadow War, World War II scholar Donald M. McKale contends that the persecution and murder of the Jews, Slavs, and other groups was Hitler's primary effort during the war, not the conquest of Europe. According to McKale, Hitler and the Nazi leadership used the military campaigns of the war as a cover for a genocidal program that centered on the Final Solution. Hitler continued to commit extensive manpower and materials to this "shadow...
Author
Publisher
Frontline Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 283 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, the harshest, cruellest camp in the Reich. After ten months in the granite mines of Mauthausen's nearby sub-camp, Gusen, he weighed less than 80lbs. Somehow surviving the relentless horrors of these two brutal camps, as Allied forces drew near Dave was forced to join a death march...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Leora, a juvenile court judge, wife, mother, and daughter, is caught in the routine of work, taking care of her family and aging parents. But she's also a second-generation Holocaust survivor. It's an identity she didn't understand was hers until she accidentally discovered a secret file of handwritten notes addressed to her father. A further discovery of a seemingly random WWII postcard in a thrift store sets her on a collision course with the past...
Author
Publisher
Urim Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
141 pages : portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This memoir is a fascinating portrait of mother and child who miraculously survive two concentration camps, then, after the war, battle demons of the past, societal rejection, disbelief, and invalidation as they struggle to reenter the world of the living. It is the tale of how one newly takes on the world, having lived in the midst of corpses strewn about in the scores of thousands, and how one can possibly resume life in the aftermath of such experiences....