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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
This must be the place	Anna Winger	Walter Baum has one of the most famous voices in Germany, if no longer a famous face. A former television star, he's been dubbing Tom Cruise's lines into German for fifteen years, since he returned f…	OL11914246W
Berlin Alexanderplatz	Alfred Döblin	"The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of th…	OL1434640W
Garden of Beasts	Jeffery Deaver	German-American Paul Schumann is a brilliant mobster hitman who gets caught and is offered a deal: hunt down and kill Reinhardt Ernst, the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament or fac…	OL14927379W
The Monk	Matthew Gregory Lewis	`The Monk was so highly popular that it seemed to create an epoch in our literature', wrote Sir Walter Scott. Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of a…	OL15220454W
Potsdam station	David Downing,David Downing	The third in the 'John Russel' series of novels, set in WWII Berlin.	OL15998881W
Private Berlin	James Patterson,Mark Sullivan	The Berlin office of the world's most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer play…	OL16361297W
His Majesty's Hope	Susan Elia MacNeal	Recruited by a spy organization that is separate even from MI-6 to perform her most dangerous feat yet, American ex-pat Maggie Hope, given a new identity, is parachuted into Berlin where she must ult…	OL17700662W
The Russian donation	Christoph Spielberg	Doctor Felix Hoffmann's life is textbook success: it's a life filled with medical work, televised soccer games, and the chill of German beer. Yet, when a former patient shows up dead by causes unknow…	OL18026447W
Tribunal	Sandra Grey	Berlin, 1945. Two German officers--one a Mormon, the other an SS lieutenant--find themselves on opposite sides as tensions escalate between the United States and Russia as the world's emerging superp…	OL18656553W
Berlin syndrome	Melanie Joosten	One afternoon, near the tourist trap of Checkpoint Charlie, Clare meets Andi. There is an instant attraction, and when Andi invites her to stay, Clare thinks she may finally have found somewhere to c…	OL19717235W
Go, went, gone	Jenny Erpenbeck	The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunge…	OL19718462W
Here in Berlin	Cristina García	An unnamed visitor travels to wartime Berlin, where she learns about the city through the things she sees and the disparate people she meets.	OL19718465W
The watcher	Joan Hiatt Harlow	After Wendy is kidnapped by her own mother, the only way she can survive wartime Germany is with the help of a special dog and the family she never knew she had. Kidnapped by her own mother, who is …	OL19987391W
Where the bones are buried	Jeanne Matthews	Dinah Pelerin's peaceful life in Berlin with boyfriend, Thor, is jeopardized when her Seminole mother, Swan, comes to visit carrying a headful of blackmail schemes and lies. When they result in murde…	OL19993722W
Stasi Child	Young, David	1 v. (451 p.) ; 18 cm	OL21323336W
Game, set & match	Len Deighton	TV tie-in with series starring Ian Holm and Mel Martin	OL2425014W
Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and me	Holly-Jane Rahlens	In Berlin, thirteen-year-old Nelly Sue Edelmeister--a self-described nerd and aspiring astronomer--gains a greater understanding of herself and those around her as she develops her first crush, consi…	OL2645379W
Das kunstseidene Mädchen	Irmgard Keun	The story of Doris, beautiful and striving, who vows to write down all that happens to her as the star of her own life story. But instead of scripting what she hopes will be a quick rise to fame and …	OL3827332W
The last innocent hour	Margot Abbott	Girl meets boy, boy meets S.S. in this sturdy, sudsy pre- and postwar Nazi gothic. Like other gothic heroines, Sally Jackson is ambivalently drawn to remote, masterful men—her blank ambassadorial …	OL4094672W
Berlin, Vol. 1	Jason Lutes	Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art stud…	OL8571231W