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Crete (Greece) History Occupation, 1941-1945 Fiction Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Juifs Romans, nouvelles, etc Holocaust survivors Fiction Holocauste, 1939-1945 Romans, nouvelles, etc Manipulative behavior Fiction Mythomania Fiction Mythomanie Romans, nouvelles, etc Survivants de l'Holocauste Romans, nouvelles, etc Thessalonikē (Greece) Fiction Truthfulness and falsehood FictionForsyth, Kate
Summary: Set in Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies. May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction ForsythAlbom, Mitch
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALBSaint, Jennifer
Summary: "A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid's stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice every year. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SAIAlbom, Mitch
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Forced to the port of Matala by a freak tidal wave, Macro and Cato find Crete decimated by a catastrophic earthquake and an ensuing rebellion against the Roman administration that prompts surviving local authorities to ask for their assistance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013