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Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of German immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MONHesse, Monica
Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESSmith, Clifford Neal.
Contents: pts. 1, 2, 3, and 4A: Surnames A through J -- 4B: Surnames K through Z -- 4C: Appendices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2004
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.377177 SMIRussell, John Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1994
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3774 RUSWolff, Alexander
Summary: "A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOLFox, Lauren
Summary: "Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction Fox 2021Kilar, Jeremy W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2002
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPStapinski, Helene
Summary: "An exuberant true-life adventure following two very different men - a loveable huckster turned publisher of DC Comics and the man he helped escape from 1930s Berlin - as they cross paths with icons of midcentury pop culture in pursuit of the American dream"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STAHeilman, Robert A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1990
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929 DEASprow, Harry Pohlman
Summary: In addition to listing families married into Sprau family 1651-2007, the book includes brief but more detailed synopses of Gummo, Haass, Leusenrink, Niemeyer, Pohlmann, Schneider, Walliser and Burgderfer families, plus a brief German history and related facts concerning the Rheinland-Pflalz region.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gateway Press 2007
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 SPRAU SprowVerna, Harmony
Summary: "An historical novel set in 1914 that follows a family of German immigrants who trade city living for the harsh realities of Pennsylvania farm life. Among other challenges, anti-German sentiment spreads across America with the outbreak of World War I"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VERBuckley, William F. (William Frank)
Summary: Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, 1945, was the scene of a trial without precedent in history. Leading the listener into the palace is Sebastian, a young German-American whose fate is entwined with the lives and deaths of some towering figures of 20th century history, including Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler. In a gripping account of war makers who must face the consequences of their actions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCKrug, Nora
Summary: "A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRUAlikhan, Salima
Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALIDuffy, Peter
Summary: An account of a virtually unknown pre-World War II counterespionage operation describes how naturalized German-American agent William G. Sebold became the FBI's first double agent and was a pivotal figure in the arrests of 33 enemy agents for the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DUFJacobsen, Annie.
Summary: Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2013
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Summary: "In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILLNERGratz, Alan
Summary: It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2019Rosenheim, Andrew.
Summary: A thriller set in the Depression-era years before World War II finds fledgling FBI Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim dispatched to infiltrate the pro-Nazi German-American Bund organization and discovering a sinister plot targeting the White House.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSBaxter, Angus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 BAXBurgert, Annette K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picton Press 1989
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 BurgeZimmerman, Gary J.
Contents: [1] 1847-1854 -- [2] 1855-1862 -- [3] 1863-1867 -- [4] 1868-1871.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1985
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 Z1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.343 Zimme