Pak, Greg
Summary: "Hana and Kenichi have been separated, forced to find their own ways back to the Island. Kenichi, cast out in exile, must learn to survive the wilderness on his own without the support his noble upbringing previously provided. Hana must also survive a dangerous foreign environment, as she travels alongside the Shogun's caravan back towards the Island and contends with the cutthroat political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RONSummary: Vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm goes off to the eastern front with his sensitive younger brother Friedhelm. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Red Cross.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GENPak, Greg
Summary: "After a mysterious attack devastates a great swath of 19th century Japan, Korea, and China, survivors from all three lands find refuge on a hidden island and build a new society. Hana, the orphaned daughter of Korean farmers, and Kenichi, son of a great samurai leader, have little in common except for a mutual disdain for the other. But these young warriors will have to work together when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RONAllende, Isabel
Summary: After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ALLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Allende 2013Summary: When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum portrays an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina, though innocent, suddenly becomes a suspect, falling prey to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist that tests the limits of her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LOSMcDermid, Val.
Summary: Weary forensic profiler Dr. Tony Hill is called in to track a killer who is targeting psychologists across northern Europe, a case that he takes on when the next victim is an old friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDCameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMGratz, 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 2019Binder, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BINDowning, David
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 DOWElliott, Laura
Summary: In the days before the treacherous overnight raising of the Berlin Wall, teenaged cousins Drew, an American army brat in West Berlin, and Matthias, a young communist in East Berlin, become wary friends on opposite sides of the Cold War. Interspersed throughout the story are captioned photographs from the era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLCole, Tom Clohosy
Summary: Follows a small boy and his family as they try to reunite with his father after the Berlin Wall is built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLSkrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
Summary: In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SKRSkrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
Summary: After escaping a slave labor camp, Luka joins an underground resistance in the fight against the Nazis and the Soviets, but he has two overriding goals--reunite with Lida, who was a friend in the labor camp, and make it back to his home in Ukraine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At the rise of what would become known as World War I, German patriot Paul Baumer and his friends enlist in the Imperial German Army. In search of adventure and eager to assert the superiority of their nation, the young men endure a brutal training camp and soon find themselves face to face with the full horrors of war when they are sent to the front lines to fight, and likely die.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLSchaap, Annet
Summary: Every night Lampie, the lighthouse keeper's daughter lights the lantern which warns the ships away from the rocks, but when the light goes out one night, a ship is wrecked and Lampie is sent to the Admiral's Black House in disgrace--there she finds and befriends the Admiral's son, who was born with a tail, and together they are pulled into an adventure of mermen and pirates, and secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHQuinn, Katherine.
Summary: "Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It's only when he sees her--a young woman with wild, amber eyes who's as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves--that he feels the warmth of life in his blood. The other Knights may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entagled Teen 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC QUIKingsley, Ben
Summary: Examines the life of Anne Frank and her family from 1939-1945.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANNEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: "When bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher returns to Salt Lake City to settle his estranged mother's estate, a young woman arrives looking for her birth mother who lived with Jacob's family during her pregnancy. They discover a diary written by Noel and begin a quest to find her, reconcile their pasts and rewrite their futures"--
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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 EVAStandish, Ali
Summary: While her grandmother was alive, Emma's world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma's skin. Soon, she's diagnosed with vitiligo--a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color--and the magic in her world is suddenly replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments. But when Emma writes one last story in the journal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARSummary: The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2021
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEAUrlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Rivers, Francine
Summary: Atretes, German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness ... but his life is changed forever when he learns his son is alive. Atretes vows to find his son and return to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, the young widow who adopted his abandoned baby. But Atretes is undaunted. One woman should be no trouble at all. It doesn't take him long to find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 1995