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Summary: "When the Cold War split the German capital of Berlin in half, between East and West, one neighborhood was trapped in the middle. For more than twenty years, the hamlet of Steinstuecken was caught in a tug-of-war between the Americans and the Communists. Steinstuecken: A Little Pocket of Freedom, tells this hamlet's story and examines its impact on the Cold War in Europe. Steinstuecken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acclaim Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 SMICole, 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 COLTerrell, Brandon
Summary: After he accidentally injures a teammate during relay race practice, thirteen-year-old Nate and his cousin Rachel travel back in time to meet Jesse Owens, and get a chance to see him run in the 1936 Olympics--and almost lose the Sports Illustrated magazine that is their ticket back to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TERRaven, Margot Theis.
Summary: The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943 RavElliott, 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 ELLNelson, Anne
Summary: The "Rote Kapelle," or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo's name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats (almost half of them women) who battled treacherous odds to unveil the brutal secrets of their fascist employers and oppressors. For many members of the Red Orchestra, these audacious acts of courage resulted in their tragic and untimely end. This is a brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 NELMedina, Nico
Summary: Describes the history of the Berlin Wall, from its construction in 1961 to divide the city of Berlin to its destruction in 1989.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943 MEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943 MEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What MedinaStamper, Vesper
Summary: In 1961 Berlin, twins Rudi, a photographer, and Peter, an actor, live in different sectors of a divided Berlin after the sudden divorce of their parents, where they are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their dreams underground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC STATunnell, Michael O.
Summary: "World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J943.1550 TUNJones, Nigel H.
Summary: Revealing the sensational true story behind a forgotten part of espionage history, this book takes readers behind the doors of "Salon Kitty," a high-class Berlin brothel that, when the Nazis took power, became a dangerous spy center, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Vogel, Steve
Summary: The author presents the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War--and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War--and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. Its code name was "Operation Gold," a wildly audacious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.1273 VOGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 VOGMacGregor, Iain
Summary: "Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was to divide one of the most beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world; dividing families,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 943 MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 MACMilton, Giles
Summary: "The lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II that fired the starting gun for the Cold War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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Summary: Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMON, MARIE SIMSchneider, Peter
Summary: "A vibrant look at Berlin--perhaps Europe's most exciting city--since the fall of the Wall"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Berlin was at the very center of the Second World War. Moorhouse uses diaries, memoirs, and interviews to provide a searing first-hand account of life, death, and chaos in the Nazi capital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 MOOBeevor, Antony
Summary: Chronicles the horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Colin, Beatrice.
Summary: A literary historical novel about an orphan girl's journey from poverty to film stardom, set against the grand backdrop of World War I Berlin, the cabaret era, the run-up to World War II, and the innovations in art and industry that accompanied it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLKerr, Philip
Summary: "New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. A portrait of Bernie Gunther in his twenties: He's young, but he's seen four bloody years of trench warfare. And he's not stupid. So when he receives a promotion and a ticket out of Vice squad, he knows he's not really leaving behind the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY KERTaylor, Fred
Summary: One morning in 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed wire became a 103-mile-long wall guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the Cold War that would stand for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 TAYSelby, Scott Andrew.
Summary: Describes the true story of a Nazi party member and serial killer who attacked women riding on trains at night in World War II-era Berlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 SELLutes, Jason.
Summary: "The second volume of Jason Lutes's historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightlife of Berlin heats up as many attempt to distract themselves from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUTSteel, Danielle
Summary: In the lead-up to WWII, Sophie Alexander, the daughter of a Berlin surgeon, assumes control of the household when her mother dies, while also volunteering at the hospital. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power has Sophia concerned, so she becomes increasingly involved in the resistance, assisting nuns to transport Jewish children to safety, finding herself under surveillance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017