Postorino, Rosella
Summary: Forced to risk her life every day as a taster at Hitler's secret headquarters, Rosa and a growing sisterhood of involuntary women conscripts navigate Nazi fanatics, an SS guard's unwanted attentions, and the escalating war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POSRobards, Karen
Summary: "September 1943. Berlin is the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she's been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand apart. And with her homeland now under Nazi occupation and a young son to protect, Elin can't refuse such a request. Racing to complete...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: "Ivy Zimmerman is successfully navigating her life as a young Mennonite woman, one generation removed from her parents' Old Order Amish upbringing. But when her parents are killed in a tragic accident, Ivy's way of life is upended. As she deals with her grief, her younger sisters needs, her relationship with her boyfriend, and her Dawdi and Mammi's strict rules, Ivy finds solace in both an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOUHiggins, Jack
Summary: Sequel to: The eagle has landed. Colonel Kurt Steiner, the German paratroop officer believed to have been shot dead during his assassination attempt on the Prime Minister, actually survives his wounds and is spirited away to the Tower of London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGChristie, William
Summary: ""A single spy--in the right place and at the right moment--may change the course of history." 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRHummel, Maria.
Summary: To provide for his children after being drafted into military service, surgeon Frank Kappus, a recent widower, marries a young woman who struggles to keep one of the children from being declared mentally unfit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMAlexander, V. S.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Alexander 2018Seiffert, Rachel.
Summary: Follows the lives of three ordinary Germans--a boy who works as a photographer during the 1930s, a teenage girl who journeys through occupied Germany in search of her grandmother, and a young man seeking the truth about his grandfather, imprisoned by theRussians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEIShipman, James D
Summary: "Based on the true story of General Patton's clandestine unauthorized raid on a World War II POW camp. March, 1945. Allied forces are battle-worn but wearily optimistic. Russia's Red Army is advancing hard on Germany from the east, bolstering Allied troops moving in from the west and north. Soon, surely, Axis forces must accept defeat. Yet for Captain Jim Curtis, each day is a reminder of how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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Summary: For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuumlehrer of Buchenwald. Driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Blum 2004Shipman, James D.
Summary: March, 1945. Allied forces are battle-worn but wearily optimistic. Russia's Red Army is advancing hard on Germany from the east, bolstering Allied troops moving in from the west and north. Soon, surely, Axis forces must accept defeat. Yet for Captain Jim Curtis, each day is a reminder of how unpredictable and uncertain warfare can be. Captured during the Battle of the Bulge after the Germans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuumlehrer of Buchenwald. Driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLUBinder, L. Annette
Summary: "In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right-he is thin,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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Summary: In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOWBohjalian, Christopher A.
Summary: In January 1945 , a small group of people attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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Summary: During the final months of World War II, a small group of people make their way westward across a ravaged Europe in a desperate attempt to reach British and American lines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2008
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Summary: "September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness--and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she's been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand apart. And with her homeland now under Nazi occupation and a young son to protect, Elin can't refuse such a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2024
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Summary: "Beth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max. His only request of his daughter is to go through the long-forgotten box of memorabilia from his days as a medic on the western front. Then, among his wartime souvenirs, Beth finds a photograph of her father with an adoring and beautiful stranger - a photograph worth a thousand questions. It was 1944...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNKerr, Philip
Summary: Working undercover in 1956 Munich, Bernie Gunther investigates a murder with ties to Nazi plunder that prompts his collaboration with a lieutenant who has been looking for an opportunity to bring a killer to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERGross, Andrew
Summary: "1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GROIles, Greg.
Summary: In 1944, at the command of Winston Churchill, four people are brought together in a small concentration camp and forced to perform an act in the name of victory and survival that could only be asked of them in wartime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ILEFranck, Julia.
Summary: A multi-generational family story set in the Germany of the early twentieth century that reveals the devastating effect of war on the human heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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Summary: "London, 2018: When ninety-four-year-old Imogen receives a letter addressed to her in neat, unfamiliar handwriting, she notices the postmark is stamped from Germany--and it sends shivers down her spine ... Germany, 1939: Thirteen-year-old Magda is devastated by the loss of her best friend, shy and gentle Lotte, cruelly snatched from her and sent to a concentration camp--the Star of David sewn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2022