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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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The Flight
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Bryan Malessa |
A powerful novel set at the end of World War II about one woman and her family's struggle for survival.The thrust of this epic novel occurs in the spring of 1945, during an event known in Germany as … |
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Angel Rising
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Christopher Nicole |
Germany, 1945. With the collapse of the Third Reich and MI6's decision to retire their premier double agent-cum-assassin, it seems the war is finally over for beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach, aka … |
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White sands, red menace
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Ellen Klages |
It is 1946, and Dewey Kerrigan is now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dewey and her "sister," Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to h… |
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Hansel and Gretel
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Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm,Susan Jeffers |
When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch. |
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A city of broken glass
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Rebecca Cantrell |
In Rebecca Cantrell's A City of Broken Glass, journalist Hannah Vogel is in Poland with her son Anton to cover the 1938 St. Martin festival when she hears that 12,000 Polish Jews have been deported f… |
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Los informantes
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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 … |
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1632
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Eric Flint |
A small West Virginia town is permanently transplanted to 1632 Germany, in the middle of the 30-years war. |
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The Teleportation Accident
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Ned Beauman |
"In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the seventeenth century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised… |
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The Message
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Julie Highmore |
Jen has no idea that her neat life is about to unravel. With one misplaced voicemail, she discovers that her marriage is a sham. Numb with shock, she's hiding from the future when she's struck by a f… |
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A most wanted man
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John le Carré |
A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely… |
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Gods of the Steppe
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Andrei Gelasimov |
With an invasion looming at Russia's borders, Petka wages a war against boredom by secretly raising a wolf, stowing away in a shipment bound for the combat zone, and antagonizing the troops moving th… |
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Someday we'll tell each other everything
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Daniela Krien |
In the sleepy countryside of East Germany, in 1990, sixteen-year-old Maria moves in with her boyfriend on his family's farm. Dreamy and bookish, she soon realizes she is not cut out for agricultural … |
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The Lion of the North
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G. A. Henty |
In this novel about the Thirty Years' War, 16-year-old Malcolm Graheme is a Scot who volunteered to fight with the military forces conducted by the celebrated Gustavus Adolphus. When the Emperor of A… |
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The frog prince
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Eric Blair |
An easy-to-read retelling of the classic tale of a beautiful princess who makes a promise to a frog which she does not intend to keep. |
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The twelve dancing princesses
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Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm,Errol Le Cain |
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and the poor soldier who follows them and discovers where they dance. |
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Sirius
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Jonathan Crown |
The remarkable story of a little dog who changed world history. Berlin, 1938: Sirius, a dashing fox terrier, lives a charmed life with the German Jewish Liliencrons. But, with the rise of Nazism, the… |
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The women in the castle
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Jessica Shattuck |
Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsiv… |
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The wish child
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Simon Vance,Catherine Chidgey |
Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excis… |
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Saving Amelie
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Cathy Gohlke |
Increasingly wary of her father's genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this trip with him to Germany in 1939 will be her last. But a cryptic letter from an estranged friend, begging Ra… |
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