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Summary: Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi 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 towards "the east" 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, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Albom, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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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 CAMBrouwer, Sigmund
Summary: "This WWII drama is both exciting in its revelations and heart-rending in its truth about human nature and forgiveness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROKatsu, Alma
Summary: "From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATCharyn, Jerome
Summary: "J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a litigious misanthrope who disowned his daughter. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger is a young WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAPouncey, Peter R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POUSchine, Cathleen
Summary: Julian Künstler comes from New York City to L.A. like many a lost twenty-something: to find a job writing in the entertainment industry. But this is 2020 and his temporary visit turns into an extended stay, trapped by the lockdown in a little house in Venice with his glamorous, eccentric, and ancient grandmother. Ninety-three-years old, Mamie came to Los Angeles from Vienna at eleven with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCreel, Ann Howard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANHodgkinson, Amanda.
Summary: In this tale of a Polish family desperately trying to put itself back together after WWII, Silvana and Janusz travel to England where they attempt to put the past behind them. But the secrets they carry pull at the threads of their fragile peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HODPye, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYENorman, Howard A.
Summary: A Jewish woman in 1938 Nova Scotia becomes obsessed with a painting in a museum. It is called Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam and is on loan from Holland. The woman decides to live the subject's life, a momentous decision as the Nazis are on the march. By the author of The Bird Artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORAzzopardi, Trezza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AZZHannah, Kristin
Summary: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A German teenager has an affair with an emotionally remote older woman and only years later, when he is a law student and she is on trial, does he discover that she is a survivor of the Holocaust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHPratt, James Michael.
Summary: Twin brothers from Depression-era Oklahoma fall in love with the same girl, and one of them marries her, creating an unbridgeable rift between them--a rift that is widened further yet by their experiences as prisoners of war in the Pacific.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PRAHannah, Kristin
Summary: Meredith and Nina are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard, the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 310 FIC HANJones, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1951
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONArvin, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ARVMichaels, Anne
Summary: A tale of Holocaust survival whose protagonist is Jakob Beer, a Jewish boy in Poland. He is saved from death by a Greek scientist who takes him home to his island, where Beer develops an interest in archeology. He describes the way the Nazis manipulated archeology to prove the superiority of the Aryan race. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICHarris, Joanne
Summary: "Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the creperie - and lets memory play strange games." "Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise's nephew - a profiteering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHull, Jonathan.
Summary: Unable to cope with the loss of his beloved wife to cancer, World War II veteran Mead is haunted by painful memories and journeys through Europe with his rebellious and emotionally troubled teenage grandson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HULJenner, Natalie
Summary: "Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020