Appelfeld, Aharon
Summary: Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters--escapees from a nearby ghetto--hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2020
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Summary: In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICKurkov, Andreĭ
Summary: Sergey Sergeyich is one of the last residents of a Ukrainian village in the "Grey Zone," a no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces in Crimea. Sergeyich's one pleasure in life is taking care of his bees. As spring approaches, he knows he must move the bees to a place they can safely collect pollen. On his journey, he will meet people on both sides of the battle lines in a country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deep Vellum Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KURLitteken, Erin
Summary: Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boldwood Books Ltd. 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC LIT (Book Club Kit - 8 paperbacks)Litteken, Erin
Summary: Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ESCHarmel, Kristin
Summary: A coming-of-age story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis, until a secret from her past threatens everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARFalkner, Brian
Summary: In Nazi-ruled Germany, twelve-year-old Joe flees to England after his father is arrested by the Gestapo and he is separated from his mother, but when he arrives in London, Joe is recruited by MI5 and given a deadly mission that will put him in the very center of Hitler's ruthless reign.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FALHarmel, Kristin
Summary: Newlywed Ruby Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel, imagining strolls in the golden afternoon light. But war is looming on the horizon, and as France falls to the Nazis, her marriage begins to splinter. Charlotte Dacher is eleven when the Germans roll into the French capital, and when Jews are ordered to wear the yellow star, she can't imagine things getting much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYParker, Robert B.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleuth Philomel 2007
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Summary: Racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia, and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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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: "After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: In 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek hasn't given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. But in befriending Sara, a neighbor, Elzbieta is propelled into resistance against the Nazis. Using Sara's credentials to smuggle children out of the ghetto brings Elzbieta face-to-face with the reality of the war behind its walls and to the plight of the Gorka family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RIMHarmel, Kristin
Summary: "Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Harmel 2020Runyan, Aimie K.
Summary: "Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband, a sensitive artist who fears for her safety,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNYancey, Richard
Summary: The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others and now by ourselves. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA-CD FIC YANBentley, Don
Summary: "Jack Ryan, Jr. would do anything for Ding Chavez. That's why Jack is currently sitting in an open-air market in Israel, helping a CIA team with a simple job. The man running the mission, Peter Beltz, is an old friend from Ding's Army days. Unfortunately, Ding had to cancel at the last minute and asked Jack to take his place. It's a cushy assignment--a trip to Israel in exchange for a couple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENDeutermann, Peter T.
Summary: "Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a "Nugget," who needs to learn the ropes and complex procedures of taking off and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking lands him in an unfamiliar bed aboard the USS Oklahoma; later that day, the Japanese destroy Pearl Harbor. After cheating death and losing his friend in this act of war, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEUDeutermann, Peter T.
Summary: "In The Commodore, the Navy in 1942-1943 is fighting a losing battle against Japan for control of the Solomon Islands. Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey is tasked to change the course of the war. Halsey, a maverick, goes on the offensive and appoints a host of new destroyer commanders, including a wild-card named Harmon Wolf. An American Indian from a Minnesota reservation, Wolf has never fit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016