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Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including blindness and paralysis), waves of apocalyptic rumors crashed over the land. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1921, Francoise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-fulfills a lifelong dream. She opens Berlin's first French-language bookshop, La Maison du Livre, attracting artists, diplomats, celebrities, and poets. The shop soon becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. But as the occupation intensifies and politics darken, Frenkel's bookshop is frequently visited by police officers who confiscate...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A German-American woman in 1989 New York City evaluates her relationship with her late mother, whose childhood best friendship was shattered in the wake of a betrayal involving the Hitler Youth movement and a family secret.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep...When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In November 1938, young Ruth Block is a Jewish girl in Frankfurt Germany, trying to cope with the ever tightening noose of Nazi oppression; her father's stationery store has been shut down, and her school closed; then one night her family's apartment is broken into, and her father is dragged out, arrested, and taken to a concentration camp--and it becomes clear that if Ruth and her best friend Miriam are going to survive they must somehow get out...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1941 twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and he begins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group who opposes the Nazis.
48) The Murder Farm
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A whole family has been brutally murdered with a pickaxe at their remote farm home, now dubbed "The Murder Farm". The newspapers are full of stories and rumors about the sensational case, but the police have no firm leads an little sense of how to find the killer. The reader learns about the case when a former resident of the village returns home to collect evidence and attempt a solution to the case. Written as a collage of first-person recollections...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank, Artemis Fowl has no idea that Opal Koboi has escaped from jail, leaving only Captain Holly Short of the LEPrechon fairy police to save Artemis before Opal seeks revenge on him.
Author
Series
Verity Kent volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her beloved Great-Aunt Ilse arrives on her doorstep, leaving war-ravaged Germany behind, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent soon discovers that danger has followed Ilse when ant-Germen sentiment is taken to murderous lengths.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retells the classic German version of the fairy tale of a girl and a wolf, along with similar tales from Italy and Taiwan.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 27 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the well-known tale in which two children lost in the woods find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.
59) Rapunzel
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Retells the tale of the beautiful girl imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
