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The neighborhood's scariest woman
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Jerry B. Jenkins |
While spying on a strange, old woman with an unknown past, Toby Andrews and the Kalamazoo County Junior Deputies learn things about her which are more fascinating than any rumor. |
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Rosa
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Ann Fears Crawford |
Recounts the life of Rosa Kleberg, a German woman living on the Texas frontier during the Texas Revolution and the years following. |
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Yesterday in the Texas hill country
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Gilbert John Jordan |
The simplicity of rural life appears in vivid detail in this account of German Texas heritage as it was lived in the early 1900s. Gilbert Jordan describes a way of life familiar to much of rural Texa… |
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Carrie and the boarding house
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Nelda Johnson Liebig |
Continues the adventures of nearly fourteen-year-old Carrie Heidenworth and her little brother Fritz, one-year survivors of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 in northeastern Wisconsin, where their moth… |
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Garden of Beasts
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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… |
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A Bond Never Broken (Book 3 Daughters of Amana)
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Judith Miller |
For many years, Ilsa Redlich has helped her parents run a hotel in South Amana, but as the United States enters the Great War, she can feel her world changing. The residents of the towns surrounding … |
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The German element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
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Wayland, John Walter |
History of shennandoah valley with emphasis on Rockingham County. Well anodated with footnotes of sources. Easy to read. Great for local history and genealogy research. |
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Prairie Anna
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Peggy House |
"Someday you will choose how to live for yourself." Most of Anna's life is decided for her -- what to study, which chores to do, when to eat and sleep. Everyone in her family works hard to survive th… |
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Operation paperclip
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Annie Jacobsen |
In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-ind… |
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A good American
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Alex George |
The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more … |
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Wait until spring
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Anne E. Schraff |
Sixteen-year-old Amelia Kintz misses her snug little house in Germany after her family moves to a dirty shanty in an Ohio immigrant settlement in 1855. |
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Promised to me (Coming to America #4)
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Robin Lee Hatcher |
After eleven years, Karola Breit was sure Jakob Hirsch had forgotten her. Then came his marriage proposal. With more impulse than wisdom, she crossed the ocean to begin a new life with him in Shadow … |
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Beer and Revolution
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Tom Goyens |
*Beer and Revolution* examines the rollicking life and times of German immigrant anarchists in New York City from 1880 to 1914. Offering a new approach to an often misunderstood political movement, T… |
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Horrors of history
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T. Neill Anderson |
Young Frank, his father, and the families of all the Colorado miners on strike in the Ludlow tent colony are uncertain of their fate when the camp's guards attack during the Ludlow Massacre of 1914. |
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Fear itself
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Andrew Rosenheim |
In the tense and uncertain years before the Second World War, Jimmy Nessheim, a young Special Agent in the fledgling FBI, is assigned to infiltrate a new pro-Nazi German-American organization known a… |
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Elisabeth and the windmill
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Esther Bender |
Elizabeth, sixteen-year-old granddaughter of German immigrants, is torn between two indentured servants from Germany, mischievous Hannes, who is teaching her to read, and serious kind Milo. |
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Two Germans in the Civil War
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Joseph R. Reinhart |
xxxvii, 243 p. : 24 cm |
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Constructing a legacy
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William B. Friedricks |
What started with a single man seeking opportunity in the new capital city of Des Moines, eventually grew into one of the largest construction firms in the country. Through its 160 year history and f… |
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How They Came
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Anita M. Mallinckrodt |
Illusive. |
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A German in the Yankee fatherland
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Henry A. Kircher |
Fighting for the Union was, for Henry Kircher and his comrades in arms, fighting for "the Fatherland." They were German-speaking soldiers in the Northern Army, immigrants and sons of immigrants from … |
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