Grossman, David
Summary: "From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing, the story of three generations of women and a secret that needs to be told. The story was inspired by the life of a friend and confidante of David Grossman who, in the late 1940s, was imprisoned and tortured on the notorious Goli Otok, a barren island prison off the coast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROMorris, Heather
Summary: This novel is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners and used the job's freedom of movement to trade items taken from murdered Jews for food to keep others alive.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORMorris, Heather
Summary: For fans of Schindler's List; The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz; and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; comes a heart breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances. He tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on his heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONBoyne, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOYAmis, Martin
Summary: A fictionalized look at the Holocaust told from the human perspective of four different characters: Paul Doll, commandant of a concentration camp; his wife, Hannah Doll, who is far more aware of what is going on around her than her husband realizes; Angelus 'Golo' Thomsen, the privileged nephew of Hitler's personal secretary who falls for Hannah; and Szmul, a Jewish prisoner who works at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AMIIturbe, Antonio
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction ItuSchlesak, 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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Summary: Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Iturbe 2017Morris, Heather
Summary: Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MORCamp, Candace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: "The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters...The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding of its present long enough to ensure that it has a future. Street magician Jude Dubuisson is likewise burdened...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Camp 2018Camp, Candace.
Summary: When matchmaker Francesca Haughston asks for her help in finding a bride for the Earl of Radbourne, who, after being kidnapped as a child, grew up on the London streets, Lady Irene Wyngate discovers that she wants this rogue with a dubious past all for herself despite the consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAMCamp, Candace.
Summary: Lady Irene Wyngate, who has sworn she'll never marry, says that she isn't attracted to Gideon, long-lost heir to the Earl of Radbourne, when she is asked to help civilize Gideon for marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Renaissance Raines has found her place among the psychopomps--the guides who lead the souls of the recently departed through the Seven Gates of the Underworld--and done her best to avoid the notice of gods and mortals alike. But when a young boy named Ramses St. Cyr manages to escape his foretold death, Renai finds herself at the center of a deity-thick plot unfolding in New Orleans. Someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCamp, Candace.
Summary: When her overprotective brother warns her to stay away from the mysterious Earl of Bromwell, Lady Calandra, determined to see the Earl again, defies her brothers wishes, only to walk straight into a trap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Tang, Camy
Summary: Mary is delighted about Living History Days, when many of Ivy Bay's businesses put on demonstrations of what life was like in historic Cape Cod. She's especially excited about the re-enacted bank robbery at Ivy Bay Bank & Trust. But as Mary and the crowd watch the re-enactment, they realize this fake crime is actually real. The masked, gun-wielding robber, played by Steve Althorpe, the bank...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guideposts 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANVan Camp, Katie.
Summary: Harry sneaks out of bed one night with his best friend, Horsie. Bubbles fill Harry's room and begin carrying items into space. Can Harry find Horsie?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer and Bray 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VANVan Camp, Richard
Summary: "This dual-language, poetic book for babies and toddlers celebrates every child and the joy babies bring into the world. In English and Plains Cree."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VANVan Camp, Richard
Summary: "No one knows how a suit of samurai armour ended up in the Fort Smith museum. When a mysterious stranger turns up to claim it, Sonny, a young Tłı̨chǫ Dene boy, is eager to help. Shinobu has travelled to Fort Smith, NWT, to reclaim his grandfather's samurai sword and armour. But when he discovers that the sword was lost in a poker game, he must confront the man known as Benny the Bank. Along the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2022