Rabb, Jonathan
Summary: "A moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia. In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Georgia since the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2016
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Summary: Vowing to avenge the murder of her family, Maria, a young Polish resistance worker imprisoned in Auschwitz, plays chess in exchange for her life, and, in doing so, challenges the man who destroyed her family to one last game that will end in either failure or justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Russia 1917: Beautiful, educated Svetlana Petrova defied her stifling aristocratic family to join a revolution promising freedom. Now, released after years of imprisonment, she discovers her socialist party vying for power against the dictatorial Bolsheviks and her beloved uncle, a champion of her cause, was murdered by a mysterious assassin named Orlova. Her signature? Blinding her victims...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Decades after defying her aristocratic family to join the Russian revolution, Svetlana Petrova opens her home to her eighteen-year-old granddaughter, Mila, who falls under the spell of the resistance when their remote village is overrun by Nazi invaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
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Summary: When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RABBragg, Melvyn
Summary: Ex-corporal Sam Richardson returns home from the war in Burma in the spring of 1946, but instead of finding comfort in returning to his hometown, which seems to have remained unchanged, he finds himself trying to cope with the changes that have occured within himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade 2002
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Summary: In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ivey 2016Edwards, Selden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2008
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Summary: Taking her place in late nineteenth-century Boston society, Eleanor Burden, who believes she has advance knowledge of every major event that is to occur in her lifetime, struggles to balance the expectations of her family with her resolve to prevent historical disasters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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Summary: "In 1927, orphaned eight-year-old Alec Oswin sails from India to an unknown future in England. Meanwhile, in the English fenlands, June Attwell memorizes maps, patterns, and railway timetables, hoping for a future beyond her father's vicarage. Alec and June become friends, and, in time, marry. When the Second World War breaks out, Alec joins the RAF, while the Foreign Office sends June to its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2021
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Summary: "The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldier Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son -- the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel -- is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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Summary: "As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: An indelible portrait of prejudice and promise, friendship and loyalty, a daring look at race and class in pre-Civil Rights America, played out in the lives of two remarkable men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2015
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Summary: In the autumn of 1945 Karl Baier a young American military officer arrives in a devastated Berlin the once mighty capital of the Third Reich. His assignment: to hunt down debrief and in some cases resettle German scientists who helped build the German war machine. He is not alone however as America's allies during the war have become competitors in the search for Germany's scientific and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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Summary: The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains--but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009
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Summary: "An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. "The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho," so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Summary: Traveling to the mountains of 1929 North Carolina to forge a timber business with her new husband, Serena Pemberton champions her mastery of harsh natural and working conditions but turns murderous when she learns she cannot bear children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2008