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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Pilgrim's Progress The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley … OL107195W
Apt Pupil Apt Pupil Stephen King A golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. ([source][1]) ---------- Also appears in: - [Different Seas… OL149093W
Novellas (Apt Pupil / Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption) Novellas (Apt Pupil / Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption) Stephen King Contains: - [Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption][1] - [Apt Pupil][2] Also appears in: - [Different Seasons][3] [1]: hhttps://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917488W/Rita_Hayworth_and_Shaw… OL14917077W
The German minority in interwar Poland The German minority in interwar Poland Winson Chu "The German Minority in Interwar Poland analyzes what happened when Germans from three different empires - the Russian, Habsburg, and German - were forced to live together in one, new state. After th… OL16117260W
Assegai Assegai Wilbur Smith On the eve of the World War I, ex-soldier turned professional hunter Leon Courtney is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information o… OL16286595W
The speckled people The speckled people Hugo Hamilton The memoir of Hugo Hamilton, which details his life as a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own. OL16546039W
Los informantes Los informantes Juan Gabriel Vásquez When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke … OL1663451W
Boys of Alabama Boys of Alabama Genevieve Hudson In this bewitching debut novel, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in Alabama, falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. While his German parents don’t know what to make of a So… OL20776620W
When Hitler stole pink rabbit + Bombs on Aunt Dainty When Hitler stole pink rabbit + Bombs on Aunt Dainty Judith Kerr Partly autobiographical, these are first and second books in a trilogy by Judith Kerr, telling the story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War. OL24307980W
The German-Russians in words and pictures The German-Russians in words and pictures William Bosch A large percentage of people living in the Dakotas, Kansas, and Nebraska share a German-Russian heritage. The Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and the states of Washington, … OL27713323W
The Halo of the Jungle The Halo of the Jungle Gert Aron,Werner D. Aron Story of immigrant family fleeing Hitler and starting a farm in Ecuador. OL37250407W
Wo mein Mann zuhause ist… Wo mein Mann zuhause ist… Barbara Yurtdaş Zurück in die Türkei! Das ist drohende Aufforderung an die lästigen Fremden, deren Arbeitskraft zur Zeit entbehrlich scheint. Zurück in die Türkei! Das ist auch Wunschziel unzähliger Familien, die si… OL5070285W
The Nazi Conscience The Nazi Conscience Claudia Koonz The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic communi… OL5265263W
The Cat Spring story The Cat Spring story Cat Spring Agricultural Society. 166 p. 24 cm OL7512495W
The lunatic The lunatic Anthony C. Winkler In this outrageously out-of-order, hilarious novel, the reader discovers that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman, and that goodness and forgiveness may be rarer qualities, found i… OL87957W
The Summer of My German Soldier The Summer of My German Soldier Bette Greene,Bette Greene When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, sh… OL894460W