Graham, Lily
Summary: It is 1942 and Eva has boarded a train to Auschwitz. Exhausted from standing up for days, she can think only of her longed-for reunion with her husband Michal, who was sent there months earlier. But when Eva arrives at Auschwitz, there is no sign of Michal and the reality of the camp comes crashing down upon her. As she lies shivering on a thin mattress, her head shaved by rough hands, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Graham 2021Boling, Dave
Summary: Lettie and her family are Afrikaners, Dutch settlers in turn-of-the-century southern Africa. When the British Empire wages a brief but brutal two-year war against them, Afrikaner forces will lose thirty-five hundred soldiers, but more than twenty-six thousand Dutch women and children will have died of disease and starvation in British concentration camps by the war's end. Taken from their farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Boling 2017Moore, Heather B.
Summary: "Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java--living with other Dutch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOOSchlesak, Dieter
Summary: "A harrowing novel about surviving in Auschwitz and the nature of evil"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHRobbins, David L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBKlare, Shannon
Summary: A sheriff's daughter with a less than pristine reputation, Alex is caught drinking at a party and is in deep trouble. Her parents ship her off to her aunt's summer camp to work as a counselor. What could be worse than spending your summer deep in the mosquito-infested woods of Texas? Being paired with an obnoxious co-counselor who wants nothing to do with you. Alex is determined to put up with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swoon Reads 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KLAHiggins, Kristan
Summary: "From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unexpected rewards that come from life's swerves. Lark Smith was planning a fairy-tale wedding to her high school sweetheart when, in the blink of an eye, everything she dreamed of was suddenly gone. That day, Lark decided the best way to deal with loss was to prevent others from ever having to. Five...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGBoyne, John
Summary: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BOYMorris, Heather
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: "Corporate lawyer Ava Burch has had enough of the big city and the daily grind. She grew up in rural Texas, where her father raised search-and-rescue dogs, and has moved to the small town of Cuervo to spend time in the dry, rugged wilderness near Big Bend National Park. When she and her dog, Huck, discover an abandoned campsite on a volunteer search-and-rescue mission, she's perplexed, but she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRILevy, Joanne
Summary: "In this novel for middle-grade readers, painfully shy Beatrice Gelman ends up at summer camp all by herself."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVHunt, Lynda Mullaly
Summary: Delsie loves tracking the weather, living with her grandmother, and the support of friends and neighbors, but misses having a "regular family," especially after her best friend outgrows her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HUNGardner, Lisa
Summary: "No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M GARMorris, Heather
Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction MorrisBrothers, Caroline
Summary: "Buenos Aires. 1976. In the heat of summer, the Ferrero family escapes to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a distinguished doctor, and his wife Yolanda, gather with their daughters, sensible Julieta who lives in Miami, and wilful Graciela - nineteen, and madly in love with her fiancé, José. Those days will be the last the family ever spends together. On their return to Buenos Aires, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROdeVos, Kelly
Summary: Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEVTashjian, Janet
Summary: "Derek Fallon finally found something to get excited about at school-- an extracurricular class on making videos! Together with his friends Carly, Matt, and Umberto, Derek can't wait to create his own Youtube web series. But he soon realizes Youtube stardom is a lot of work. On top of that, it's time for his foster monkey Frank to go to monkey college so Derek must scramble to find a reason for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company 2018
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Summary: "The small town of Harrod's Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the superstitions until she finds two corpses at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2023
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Summary: Danger, magic and non-stop adventure await Torak, Renn and Wolf. The Clans will be tested as never before, as they battle to find ways to survive and thrive in their beloved Forest. In the Dark Time of midwinter, disaster strikes the Forest. Chaos rules. Bears woken from their dens prowl the shadowy valleys. Desperate clans battle for survival. Only demons thrive. With their world in turmoil,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zephyr 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAVMuenter, Olivia
Summary: "Hazel Davis is drifting: she's stalled in her career, living in a city she hates, and less successful than her younger sister @evelyn, a lifestyle influencer. Evie came of age on the family YouTube channel after a viral video when she was five. Ten years older and spotlight-averse, Hazel managed to dodge the family business--so although she can barely afford her apartment, at least she made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2024
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Summary: For a disgraced reporter, unraveling a conspiracy of murder could mean redemption. Reporter Lee Ellerin's investigation into a young woman's unsolved murder gained national attention--only for her to lose everything due to a tragic mistake. After being publicly ridiculed for causing a suspect's death, Lee is forced to leave her career behind. Five years later, pregnant college student Amanda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2024
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Summary: "Single mother Maisey Addington has always fallen short of her own mother's expectations--never married, a bit adrift, wasting her high IQ on dead-end jobs. The only thing Maisey's sure she's gotten right is her relationship with her twelve-year-old daughter, Elle ... until a phone call blows apart the precarious balance of their lives. Maisey's mother is in a coma, and her aging father faces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KinDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: Frank and Joe Hardy are determined to stop a group of pranksters before their mean-spirited practical jokes and vandalism become more destructive and dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J HBA 2Müller, Herta.
Summary: January 1945, the war is not yet over : the Soviets begin the deportation of the German minority from the labor camps in Ukraine. This is the story of seventeen year old Leo Auberge, who went to the camp with the naive unawareness of the boy eager to escape provincial life. The last five years however he experienced daily hunger and cold, extreme fatigue and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012