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Families Germany Fiction German American women Fiction Germany Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction Undercover operations Undercover operations Fiction World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 Germany Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements FictionPostorino, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POSSteel, Danielle
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Ivy Zimmerman is successfully navigating her life as a young Mennonite woman, one generation removed from her parents' Old Order Amish upbringing. But when her parents are killed in a tragic accident, Ivy's way of life is upended. As she deals with her grief, her younger sisters needs, her relationship with her boyfriend, and her Dawdi and Mammi's strict rules, Ivy finds solace in both an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOUHiggins, Jack
Summary: Sequel to: The eagle has landed. Colonel Kurt Steiner, the German paratroop officer believed to have been shot dead during his assassination attempt on the Prime Minister, actually survives his wounds and is spirited away to the Tower of London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGAlexander, V. S.
Summary: Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined--one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Alexander 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P ALEChristie, William
Summary: ""A single spy--in the right place and at the right moment--may change the course of history." Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Alexsi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRSeiffert, Rachel.
Summary: Follows the lives of three ordinary Germans--a boy who works as a photographer during the 1930s, a teenage girl who journeys through occupied Germany in search of her grandmother, and a young man seeking the truth about his grandfather, imprisoned by theRussians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEIHummel, Maria.
Summary: To provide for his children after being drafted into military service, surgeon Frank Kappus, a recent widower, marries a young woman who struggles to keep one of the children from being declared mentally unfit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMShipman, James D
Summary: "Based on the true story of General Patton's clandestine unauthorized raid on a World War II POW camp. March, 1945. Allied forces are battle-worn but wearily optimistic. Russia's Red Army is advancing hard on Germany from the east, bolstering Allied troops moving in from the west and north. Soon, surely, Axis forces must accept defeat. Yet for Captain Jim Curtis, each day is a reminder of how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHIBohjalian, Christopher A.
Summary: In January 1945 , a small group of people attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOHBohjalian, Christopher A.
Summary: During the final months of World War II, a small group of people make their way westward across a ravaged Europe in a desperate attempt to reach British and American lines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BohIles, Greg.
Summary: In 1944, at the command of Winston Churchill, four people are brought together in a small concentration camp and forced to perform an act in the name of victory and survival that could only be asked of them in wartime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ILEFranck, Julia.
Summary: A multi-generational family story set in the Germany of the early twentieth century that reveals the devastating effect of war on the human heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRABlum, Jenna.
Summary: For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuumlehrer of Buchenwald. Driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLUTurtledove, Harry.
Summary: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and Hasso Pemsel, a Wehrmacht officer, when fleeing a sniper's bullet stumbles into a world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns where he allies himself with the Lenelli. While there he learns to question everything he was taught and believed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightshade Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURGold, Alison Leslie.
Summary: The diary of Eva Braun, the woman who was Adolf Hitler's mistress. Based in part on real diaries, the novel opens with Eva, 17, meeting Hitler, 45, in a photo shop and ends 16 years later with their marriage, just before they commit suicide in his bunker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLBlum, Jenna.
Summary: For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuumlehrer of Buchenwald. Driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Blum 2004Rix, Debbie
Summary: "London, 2018: When ninety-four-year-old Imogen receives a letter addressed to her in neat, unfamiliar handwriting, she notices the postmark is stamped from Germany--and it sends shivers down her spine ... Germany, 1939: Thirteen-year-old Magda is devastated by the loss of her best friend, shy and gentle Lotte, cruelly snatched from her and sent to a concentration camp--the Star of David sewn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Rix 2022Downing, David
Summary: In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOWRunyan, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUNGross, Andrew
Summary: "1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GROBinder, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BINPlain, Belva.
Summary: A woman's life changes when the Nazis come to power in Germany. Caroline Hartzinger's boyfriend becomes a Nazi and abandons her because she is half-Jewish. She escapes to America, marries a fellow refugee and gives birth to the Nazi's son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLARunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: "Beth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max. His only request of his daughter is to go through the long-forgotten box of memorabilia from his days as a medic on the western front. Then, among his wartime souvenirs, Beth finds a photograph of her father with an adoring and beautiful stranger - a photograph worth a thousand questions. It was 1944...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020