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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.1273 VOG

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 VOG

Willner, Nina

Summary: "In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WIL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILLNER

Summary: It is a contemporary spy series that follows Daniel Miller, an undercover agent who has just arrived at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany. Miller has a clandestine mission: to determine the identity of a now-famous whistleblower masquerading as "Thomas Shaw".

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BER

Summary: Season Two opens in the thick of a New World Order that has taken root and is steadily deepening. In the wake of the Far Right tide sweeping across continental Europe, Germany finds itself on the precipice of a pivotal election.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BER

Wilk, Elvia

Summary: "In the near future, Berlin's real estate is being flipped in the name of "sustainability," only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants; and the weather is acting strange. In search of affordable housing, young couple Anja and Louis move into a community on an artificial mountain, The Berg--yet another "eco-friendly" initiative run by a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Cameron, Marc

Summary: 1985. A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer--invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. With the East German secret police closing...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLA

Smith, Donald

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Acclaim Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 SMI

Jacobsen, Annie.

Summary: Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2013

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Fesperman, Dan

Summary: "Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, about a Stasi officer investigating the murder of a colleague who is helped by Claire Saylor. Emil Grimm, a Stasi colonel, has decamped to his dacha in the woods outside of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a walk one morning, he discovers the body of a fellow intelligence officer with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FES

Selby, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 SEL

Cole, Tom Clohosy

Summary: Follows a small boy and his family as they try to reunite with his father after the Berlin Wall is built.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COL

Summary: Friday, 11 pm, by the light of an oil lamp, my notebook on my knees. Around 10 pm there was a series of bombs. The siren started right in screaming. Apparently it has to be worked by hand now. No light. Running downstairs in the dark, we slip and stumble. Finally we're in our cellar, behind an iron door that weighs a hundred pounds. The official term is air-raid shelter. We call it cave,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt 2005

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Terrell, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TER

Elliott, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELL

Lutes, Jason

Summary: "The third and final act of Jason Lutes's historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament, the citizenry becomes even more divided. Lutes steps back from the larger political upheaval, using the intertwining lives of a small group of Germans to zero in on the rise of fascism and how swiftly it can...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUT

Medina, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943 MED

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943 MED

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What Medina

Mohr, Tim

Summary: Tim Mohr brings us the secret history of punks in East Germany. Burning Down the Haus is a reclamation and an exaltation of youth culture and youthful idealism as not only an instigator for discourse, but as an actual catalyst for political upheaval - and radical, fierce, irrepressible change.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dialogue Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.1 MOH

Roth, Joseph

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 ROT

Contents: Tak / Species of Fishes -- Ruthless Compassion / Bedouin Ascent -- TV / Woody McBride -- Jill's Meth (Side A) / DJ Slip -- Iceberg / Tim Taylor, Dan Zamani, Freddie Fresh, DJ Slip -- 19c / Soren -- Aeon Fusion 1 / Leo Anibaldi -- Like A Boogie / DJ RX-5 -- Confusion / Nikita Zabelin -- Denise It Ain't Easy 2 / Bjarki -- A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day / PTU -- Huckfuq 3 (Uxi Mix) / Orange...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC KRA

Cameron, Marc

Summary: "In 1985 an F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. It's an offer they can't pass up. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CAM

Summary: Its the Battle of Berlin, during World War 2, two women find each other. One is single, AimGee, the other, Jaguar, is unhappily married with 4 children. In war torn Germany it was not safe to be Jewish, it was just as unsafe to be a lesbian. When Jaguar's husband, who is a German soldier, finds out about the relationship of his wife to AimGee, nothing but trouble becomes the result.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AIM

Jones, 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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023

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Herron, Mick

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Summary: "Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HER

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HER

Lutes, Jason

Summary: "Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens--Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters' lives into the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018

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