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Carrie and the apple pie
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Nelda Johnson Liebig |
In the aftermath of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871, thirteen-year-old Carrie and her little brother Fritz are taken in by a wealthy couple in nearby Oconto, Wisconsin, and start life anew with the h… |
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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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Maria takes a stand
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Norma Jean Lutz |
In 1914, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the war in Europe increases general hostility towards German Americans, twelve-year-old Maria Schmidt finds inspiration in the women's suffrage movement and dec… |
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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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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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Eagle in the New World
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Richard Spuler |
Discusses the German emigration from the homeland to the settlement in the Texas Hill country. |
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The Great War
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Norma Jean Lutz |
America has entered the Great War, and life is changing. Carl struggles to raise a Victory Garden in their backyard, while Edie tries to fix meatless meals and bake breads using less flour. Other cha… |
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Double agent
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Peter Duffy |
An account of a virtually unknown pre-World War II counterespionage operation describes how naturalized German-American agent William G. Sebold became the FBI's first double agent and was a pivotal f… |
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Special relationships
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John A. Ziegler |
"Since difficult ideas are best understood when they wear a human face, in these six stories the main characters personify several 'isms' the author has written and taught about during his academic c… |
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Mulligan's brigade
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Thomas E. Reimer |
U.S. Civil War, bloody battles, and the life of Lincoln as seen by Chicagoans and Mulligan's Irish Brigade. |
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The two brothers
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William Jaspersohn |
Heinrich and Friedrich, two brothers in Prussia in the 1880s, travel separately to America and end up working on adjacent farms in Vermont. |
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How They Came
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Anita M. Mallinckrodt |
Illusive. |
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Hattie and the wild waves
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Barbara Cooney |
A young girl from Brooklyn, New York enjoys her summer at the beach where she can paint and listen to the wild waves. |
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German Americans
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C. Ann Fitterer |
Brief introduction to German Americans, their reasons for immigrating to the United States, customs and traditions, and their impact on American society. |
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