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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Berlin 1944: a serial killer stalks the bombed-out capital of the Reich, preying on women and laying their mutilated bodies in front of war memorials. All of the victims are linked to the Nazi party. But according to one eyewitness account, the perpetrator is not an opponent of Hitler's regime, but rather a loyal Nazi. Jewish detective Richard Oppenheimer, once a successful investigator for the Berlin police, is reactivated by the Gestapo and forced...
82) Traitor
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During the closing months of World War II, a fifteen-year-old German girl must decide whether or not to help an escaped Russian prisoner of war, despite the serious consequences if she does so.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by a true story, a daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who are fighting the Nazis. The husband and wife have evaded...
85) The war below
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerrilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.
86) A single spy
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Alexsi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the secret police, he is given a choice: be trained and inserted as a spy into Nazi Germany under the identity of his best friend, the long lost nephew of...
87) Dead of night
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the SS rules a doctor's mysterious death a suicide, the man's widow and Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigate while trying not to run afoul of the Gestapo.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1939, Berlin. Max Albrecht is the young and handsome heir to a beautiful house on a lake where he spent his happy childhood. As war approaches, his parents tell him he must join the Nazi party or the whole family will be killed. But when his beloved French fiancé Isabelle shows him the horrifying truth, Max faces an impossible choice: protect his family or save the girl he loves? 2010, San Francisco. Anna Young is content with her life, running...
89) Saving Hanno
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Rudi and his beloved daschhund, Hanno, face peril as they are being sent from Nazi Germany to England on the special trains called Kindertransports during World War II. Includes historical note.
What if you had to leave your dog behind when you fled? Nine-year-old Rudi has a chance to leave the dangers of Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to England. However, he cannot bring Hanno, his wonderful dachshund. Luckily, his family finds...
90) The enemy above
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1942, twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined to catch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming.
Author
Series
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
486 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind. Lonely and homesick, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple. But when the Blitz blows her new home apart, she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is, or where she came from. The authorities...
Author
Series
Heroes quartet volume 2
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to save them from the Nazis, Henry and Helens mother makes the harrowing decision to take her children from their home in 1940s Germany and leave them in the care of strangers in France. The brother and sister must hide their Jewish identity to pass for orphans being fostered at a convent in the foreign land. Visits from a local mime become the childrens one source of joy, especially for Henry, whose traumatic experience has left him a selective...
93) Love's belief
Author
Series
Wartime brides volume 3
Publisher
Shortwave Press
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
110 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Midwife Pia Hertz and her mother Sabine have been delivering babies long before the Nazis came to power. Now, the Third Reich has implemented mandates that require Jewish babies and other {28}undesirables
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kara follows mysterious tracks in the snow that lead her across time and space from modern-day Sweden to 1942 Germany where two siblings are hiding from the Nazis.
95) Righteous fury
Author
Series
Publisher
[Terrance D Williamson]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to The Mistress of Auschwitz, the story continues with Eleonore as she struggles to cope with the impact of her harrowing detainment at the notorious concentration camp. Although she has been liberated by the Allies, she is not yet free from the horrors that she witnessed. Striving to heal from the trauma, Eleonore searches for meaning as she begins a new life. But Eleonore is not alone in her struggles to comprehend these atrocities...
96) Paradiso
Author
Series
Mistress of Auschwitz volume 3
Publisher
[Terrance D Williamson]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this final chapter to The Mistress of Auschwitz, Eleonore struggles with the consequences of her actions at Mrs. Meyers' manor. While in a foreign land, Eleonore begins to hope for what she thought had been lost forever. She begins to find healing through a wonderfully chaotic but passionate family, learning to use her gifts again, and an unsought romance with a man that she once despised. But all is not as it seems, as the fascist ideology which...
97) The escape game
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the Nazis started the bombing blitz of England, Beryl Clarke puts her college on hold to return to Leeds, care for her mother, and work as a secretary at the Waddington game company. While she endures the war at home, her brother James fights the enemy in the air. When he is shot down, injured, and captured, James reunites with a former college friend American POW Kenneth Bordelon, and they plan to escape the Nazi prison camp. Beryl knows there...
98) I am defiance
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From a young age Brigitte learns to support the Nazi party and attend her League of German Girls meetings, but after reading a forbidden pamphlet from the White Rose she begins to question everything she has been taught.
99) Cave dwellers
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home of a baroness. A high-ranking officer in Germany's counter-intelligence agency, brings Oskar into the fold because of their mutual involvement in a patriotic youth...
100) The shadow war
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"World War II is raging, and five teens are looking to make a mark. Daniel and Rebeka seek revenge against the Nazis who slaughtered their family; Simone is determined to fight back against the oppressors who ruined her life and corrupted her girlfriend; Phillip aims to prove that he's better than his worst mistakes; and Liam is searching for a way to control the portal to the shadow world he's uncovered, and the monsters that live within it--before...