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Zusak, Markus

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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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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Iturbe, Antonio

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Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Itu

Steel, Danielle

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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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Fein, Louise

Summary: "Leipzig, 1930's Germany. Hetty Herta is a young girl growing up under Nazi rule. With an SS officer father, a brother in the Luftwaffe and a member of the BDM Hetty is the epitome of a perfect German child. But Walter changes everything. Blond haired, blue-eyed, perfect in every way Walter. The boy who saved her life when she was a young child. Her brother's childhood best friend. A Jew. As...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEI

Cameron, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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

Linke, Dorit

Summary: Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany. Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real--...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021

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

Rees, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC REE

Jones, J. Sydney

Summary: In 1945, as Europe prepares for the Nuremberg Trials, a killer stalks a broken city.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JON

Gidwitz, Adam

Summary: "To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GID

Hess, Annette

Summary: "Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator-caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power-as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HES

Postorino, Rosella

Summary: Forced to risk her life every day as a taster at Hitler's secret headquarters, Rosa and a growing sisterhood of involuntary women conscripts navigate Nazi fanatics, an SS guard's unwanted attentions, and the escalating war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POS

Bunn, 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 BUN

Grass, Günter

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Robotham, Mandy

Summary: A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she's trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta. Two sisters torn apart. Karin and Jutta lead parallel lives for years, cut off by the Wall. But Karin finds one reason to keep going: Otto, the man who gives her hope, even amidst the brutal East...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Runyan, Aimie K.

Summary: Germany, 1939. After her mother's death, Hanna Rombauer is unwillingly matched with an SS officer. The independence her mother fostered in her is considered highly inappropriate as the future wife of an up-and-coming officer, and she is sent to a "bride school." Hanna is taught how to be a "proper" German wife, but the lessons of hatred, prejudice, and misogyny disturb her, and she is desperate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUN

Urlocker, M. Z.

Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URL

Hess, Annette

Summary: Against the wishes of her family and her lover, Eva Bruhn joins a team of fiery prosecutors determined to bring the Nazis to justice, a decision that will help change the present and the past of her nation.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HES

Grant, Richard

Summary: A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Binder, L. Annette

Summary: "In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right-he is thin,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIN

Hess, Annette

Summary: "Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963 ... [this] is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HES

Stamper, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC STA

Buckley, William F. (William Frank)

Summary: Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, 1945, was the scene of a trial without precedent in history. Leading the listener into the palace is Sebastian, a young German-American whose fate is entwined with the lives and deaths of some towering figures of 20th century history, including Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler. In a gripping account of war makers who must face the consequences of their actions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUC

Fox, Lauren

Summary: "Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction Fox 2021

Correa, Armando Lucas

Summary: "An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COR

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