Nielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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Summary: Set in summer 1939 at the Côte d'Azur's Grand Hotel and inspired by true events, Annabel Faucon is drawn into the events and intrigue surrounding a fledgling film festival, visiting movie stars, and efforts to disrupt a Nazi communications system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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Summary: Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war-torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis' most dangerous weapon in this entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIRFreethy, Sarah
Summary: "Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning is quickly dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism. Max is arrested and sent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Schaffert, Timothy
Summary: "Clementine, sometimes known as Judge, is a 72-year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets of Marrakesh, and finally the bordellos of Paris, where she settles down and opens a legitimate shop bottling her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphant tale of a Jewish WWII assassin turned Hollywood star. In 2005, Siena Hayes is Hollywood's latest It Girl, but she has her sights set higher than the screen, she wants to be behind the camera. So when Siena meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous actor from decades past, Siena...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award-Ronald H. Balson's An Affair of Spies tells of a spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb. Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical physicist. His idyllic childhood was soon marred by increasing levels of bigotry against his family and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALMoreno-Garcia, Silvia
Summary: "Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023
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Summary: "April 1940. By terms of the Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Pact, the two dictatorships divided the nation of Poland. Now, the Russians are rounding up enemies of the state, but one essential target slips away. Professor Sebastian Kapsky had spent years working with Walter Riedel and Werner von Braun, but refused to continue when he saw the perversion of their work by the Nazis. The Soviets are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIRLester, Natasha
Summary: "Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills-persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure-catch the attention of the U.S. government and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LesterJenoff, Pam
Summary: "Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation...Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village...Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction JenoffMartin, Madeline
Summary: "As bombs rain down on Warsaw and Hitler's forces surround the city, childhood friends Marta and Janina join the war effort using one of the only weapons that still feel safe to them: literature, fighting to preserve their culture and community and finding hope in each other in order to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023