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Amsterdam (Netherlands) Fiction DeGier, Rinus (Fictitious character) Fiction Friendship Fiction Grijpstra, Henk (Fictitious character) Fiction Netherlands Netherlands Fiction Netherlands History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction Police Netherlands Amsterdam Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Netherlands Fiction Young adult fictionHesse, Monica
Summary: In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Summary: His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with thelocal bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl--until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GARSalazar, Noelle
Summary: Netherlands, 1940. As bombs fall across Europe, fourteen-year-old Lien Vinke fears that the reality of war is inescapable. Though she lives a quiet life with her mother and older sister, Elif, in their small town of Haarlem, they are no strangers to heartache, having recently suffered an immeasurable loss. And when the Nazis invade the Netherlands, joining the Dutch resistance with Elif offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SALCameron, Sharon
Summary: Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMKeith, Ellen
Summary: "When the Nazis invade Amsterdam, singer Johanna Vos watches in horror as the vibrant music scene she loves is all but erased, her Jewish friends forbidden from performing with her onstage. Alongside her friend Jakob, Johanna helps organize the Artists' Resistance, an underground network allowing Jews to perform at house concerts hosted by their allies. When Johanna hears of a Jewish orphan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEIHesse, Monica.
Summary: "In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: "A gripping and timely debut novel by award-winning nonfiction writer Buzzy Jackson based on a true story of the life of the heroic Hannie Schaft: a young Dutch woman who joined the Resistance in Holland during World War II and became one of the Nazis' most lethal adversaries. Hannie Schaft, a young woman living in Nazi-occupied Holland, never intended to be a fighter. Her dream was to finish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACLiss, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M LISGarlick, Nicholas
Summary: His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with the local bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl--until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GARRinck, Maranke
Summary: By now, Ellis has grown to love Popcorn Bob. But it's harder than Ellis thinks to keep a sentient popcorn kernel a secret, because soon her friend and next-door neighbor Dante has spotted him. She can trust Dante, though, and it's good timing, since they're being tailed by both a bearded American and the owner of Popcorn & Co. Ellis and Bob are going to need all the help they can get to escape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RINLiss, David
Summary: In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, Miguel Lienzo, a Portuguese-Jewish trader desperate to recover his lost fortune, enters into a partnership with seductive Geertruid Damhouder to introduce coffee to the city, and confronts a ruthless adversary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISBorden, Louise.
Summary: During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy's dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice skating past German soldiers and other enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BORDobson, Melanie
Summary: "1942. As war rips through the heart of Holland, childhood friends Josie van Rees and Eliese Linden partner with a few daring citizens to rescue Eliese's son and hundreds of other Jewish children who await deportation in a converted theater in Amsterdam. But amid their resistance work, Josie and Eliese's dangerous secrets could derail their friendship and their entire mission. When the enemy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DOBFriedman, Carl.
Summary: A young girl relates her father's experiences in a World War II concentration camp and the effects on the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persea 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRILindelauf, Benny
Summary: When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LINKoch, Herman
Summary: Meeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOCPolak, Monique.
Summary: Anneke, a Dutch Jewish teenager, is sent with her family to Theresienstadt, a "model" concentration camp, where she confronts great evil and learns to do what it takes to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLTooke, Hana
Summary: In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOOMoggach, Deborah.
Summary: In Amsterdam in the 1630s, a young wife escapes her stifling marriage to an older man into the arms of the artist who is hired to paint their portrait.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOGVan de Wetering, Janwillem
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVan de Wetering, Janwillem
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVan de Wetering, Janwillem
Summary: Grijpstra and de Gier begin a search that leads to the unidentified corpse of a man stuffed into the trunk of a stolen Mercedes, but can't locate the body of Mrs. Fortune. Tracking a killer without a corpse and a corpse without a killer, the Amsterdam cops finally arrive at the bare truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANRobotham, Mandy
Summary: Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern's life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he'd been working undercover as a radio operative - or pianist - for the Dutch resistance, Marnie knows she must complete his mission - no matter the cost. Nazi-occupied Amsterdam: At the other end of the wireless, fellow pianist Corrie Bakker is caught in a dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBPietsch, Theodore W.
Summary: Examines the life, work, and friendship of Peter Artedi and Carl Linneaus and theorizes about the suspicious death of Artedi and what role, if any, his friend may have played.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scott & Nix 2010