Furst, Alan.
Summary: A French aristocrat working as a military attache at the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937 tries to gather information for Poland and France, wondering what move Germany will make next. Romantic sparks fly between the French aristocrat's cousin and a Franco-Polish woman who works as a lawyer for The League of Nations, all against the backdrop of Hitler's gathering war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURFurst, Alan.
Summary: Andre Szara, a Polish journalist who becomes a spy for the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, is ordered to complete many tasks of espionage in Paris. Through Szara's character, the beginnings of World War II are revealed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FURFurst, Alan.
Summary: Spies and diplomats risk everything to gather information about Germany before Hitler unleashes his gathered forces upon Europe. Still, not even the threat of cataclysmic war can halt a romance from blooming--but in changing times, loyalties are tenuous at best.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FURFurst, Alan
Summary: "After the Nazi victory over Poland in 1939, thousands of Poles were sent to Germany as slave laborers. From inside enemy territory, they found ways to get valuable information to resistance fighters in France. Paul Ricard, a French writer of detective novels, is drawn in to working in the resistance, as a spy against the Reich, and is charged with getting the information from the Polish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FURFurst, Alan.
Summary: As war approaches northern Greece, the spies begin to circle--from the Turkish legation to the German secret service. In the ancient port of Salonika, Costa Zannis, a senior police official, head of an office that handles special "political" cases, risks everything to secure an escape route for those hunted by the Gestapo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURSolomon, Burt
Summary: "Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president's heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLMytting, Lars
Summary: "As long as people could remember, the stave church's bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard movesto the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYTFurst, Alan.
Summary: In 1940, exiled Russian writer I.A. Serebin is recruited for an operation in Istanbul by a Hungarian master spy working for the British secret services.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Summary: The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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Summary: Bulgaria, 1934. The local fascists have just murdered the brother of Khristo Stoianev. Now Khristo is recruited into the NKVD--the Soviet secret police--for special service in the Spanish civil war.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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Summary: Set in the shadowy back streets and glittering salons of wartime Paris. Film producer Jean Casson, a Paris sophisticate struggles to come to terms with the uncomfortable realities of life under German occupation, as he becomes caught up in the activities of what was to become the French Resistance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FURBurg, Ann E.
Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BURVonnegut, Kurt.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon/HarperCollinsPublishers 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VONMarsh, Beezy
Summary: In 1946, as London struggles to rebuild after the devastation of the Blitz, Alice Diamond, leader of a gang of women jewel thieves, takes on a teenager named Nell and guides her in their underworld existence even as Nell plots to carve out her own path to power and riches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarsh, Sarah
Summary: Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEDurst-Benning, Petra
Summary: In the last month of 1849, Hannah, pregnant by a traveling seed trader, arrives in a small village in the Swabian Mountains to find the father of her child. Helmut is due to be married to the town beauty in January and Hannah is determined to win his love for herself but the longer she stays, the more attached she becomes to both the town and to Helmut's fiancée.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2017Furst, Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press : Bath, england 2006
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Summary: The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURFurst, Alan.
Summary: Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Furst 2012Durst-Benning, Petra
Summary: "Tempestuous and beautiful Wanda Miles, daughter of Ruth and Stephen Miles (or so she thinks), aspires to more than the life of a debutante, but the trouble is she doesn't know precisely what she wants. Then her aunt Marie, the family's renowned glassblower, arrives from Lauscha, Germany, and Wanda decides that learning about her ancestry may hold the key to her future. When Marie accidentally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2015Durst-Benning, Petra
Summary: "In 1905, on her twenty-sixth birthday, Mimi Reventlow receives a marriage proposal from the vicar of her family's church. But a future of housework, childcare, and servicing a parish doesn't appeal to the restless and unconventional Mimi. She has ambitions of her own - to follow in the footsteps of her beloved uncle Josef and become a traveling photographer. Leaving behind all that has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2020Rockliff, Mara
Summary: "In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women's suffrage movement was in full swing, and Nell and Alice would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROCCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J324.6 ROCDurst-Benning, Petra
Summary: "Germany, 1911. Certain things are expected of a woman. Defiant Mimi Reventlow has chosen to be the woman she wants to be. For now, that's the resident, if temporary, photographer in Laichingen. Here, against the odds, in a vocation uncommon for her gender, she maintains a struggling studio. She cares for her aging uncle and mentor. She's captured the affections of a roguish young local. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2020Durst-Benning, Petra
Summary: Johanna, the oldest of the three Steinmann sisters, has successfully managed the family glassblowing business since her father's death, and her sister Marie's artistic gifts have made their wares unexpectedly famous. But now the livelihood of the town of Lauscha, Germany--known around the world as the "paradise of glass"--is in danger. The local glassworks is about to be sold, and rumor has it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2015