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Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History Botticelli, Sandro 1444 or 1445-1510 Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) Fiction Germany Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction Germany History 1945-1955 Fiction Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction United States World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction Young adult fictionRees, Celia
Summary: Germany, 1946. Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, Edith Graham applies-- and is also recruited by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREJones, J. Sydney
Summary: In 1945, as Europe prepares for the Nuremberg Trials, a killer stalks a broken city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONStamper, Vesper
Summary: Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STAReich, Christopher.
Summary: Devlin Judge, an American lawyer in Europe as part of the International Military Tribunal to try Nazi war criminals. Haunted by his own demons, Judge has a secret agenda-- to find the Nazi responsible for his brother's death. Determined to avenge his brother and bring his killer to justice, Judge is plunged into pursuit, menaced at every turn by forces determined to keep him from his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIHewitt, Jason
Summary: After waking up in a German field at the end of World War II, a man with only flashes of his memory intact searches for his identity while getting caught up in a flood of displaced people, including a teenager with whom he forms an unlikely alliance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEWBunn, T. Davis
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUNKerr, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson/Gale 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KERGreeley, Andrew M.
Summary: The first volume in the 20th century saga of the O'Malley family of Chicago. It begins with the story of Charles Cronin O'Malley's coming of age, graduation from high school in 1946, and service with the Army in a still much-traumatized Germany. He finds hunger everywhere, the black market booming, government agents hunting down refugees for the ruthless Russians, and streets filled with human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECantor, Jillian
Summary: "Germany, 1931: Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately feels a powerful chemistry. Soon they fall in love and plan for the future. But Hanna is Jewish and Max is not, and as their love affair unfolds over the next five years, their love is tested when Hitler rises to power. Unbeknownst to Hanna, however, Max has a secret--a secret that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cantor 2019Brook, Rhidian.
Summary: Assigned to oversee the reconstruction of Hamburg in the tumultuous year following World War II, Colonel Lewis Morgan grieves the loss of his son while living with his family in the home of a German widower, an arrangement that forces both families to confront their passions and true selves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROShattuck, Jessica
Summary: Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Shattuck 2017Whelan, Gloria.
Summary: Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC WheSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Cameron, Sharon
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 CAMBarnes, Margaret Campbell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2009
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Summary: Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the atrocities she has witnessed. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSPalombo, Alyssa
Summary: "A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALZusak, Markus
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Ivan has escaped from the siege of Leningrad, but when the town he has taken refuge in is occupied by Hitler's troops, he sees his chance to help the partisans he has met--and to rescue two German shepherd puppies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013