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1) The innocent
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young British post office technician becomes deeply involved in electronic surveillance in postwar Berlin in 1955.
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 3
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his fourteen-year-old son Paul and his longtime girlfriend Effi. Forced to work for both German and American intelligence, he's searching for a way out of Germany. Can he escape and take Effi with him?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A detailed historical look at the surprising ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell tries to avoid reporting on the war in the hopes of avoiding deportation from Germany, but he soon learns it is hard to stay out of the political and social upheavals of the war.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 560 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
36 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Knut, the first polar bear cub at the Berlin Zoo in more than thirty years, and the efforts of Thomas Dorflein, a zookeeper who nurtured and fed him after the cub's mother rejected him.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Pub Group
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Physical Desc
437 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved? At the height of World War II, Berlin has become a city of women. Sigrid Schroder, the model German soldier's wife, goes to work every day, does her best with her rations, cares for her meddling mother-in-law, and ignores the horrors of the regime. But behind this facade Sigrid dreams of her lover, lost in the chaos of war. Her lost lover is a Jew. And Sigrid is not the only one with secrets....
10) Berlin at war
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing on diaries, memoirs, and interviews, the author provides a first-hand account of life and death on the home front in the Nazi capital of Berlin, including some Berliners' efforts to help the city's remaining Jews.
11) Tschick: Roman
Author
Series
Rororo volume 25635
Publisher
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Two 14 year old boys, joyriding in a stolen car, discover what true friendship is.
12) Masaryk Station
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties--a paradise for spies. Meanwhile, Berlin's German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviet forces who occupy half the city. John Russell works for both Stalin's NKVD and the newly created CIA,...
13) March violets
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Berlin, Bernhard Gunther is a private investigator who solves a case of theft, murder, and corruption within the new Nazi supporting group, the March Violets.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2000, c1992
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rudolf Hess was the most closely guarded prisoner in the world. Forty-five years after his capture in Scotland on a supposed peace mission he was still in Spandau Prison. Why was it necessary to keep him there so long? He was a Nazi -- but one with a damaging tale to tell.If anyone can reach him it is Berlin correspondent Red Goodbody, known for his foolhardiness, but also for his daring and panache. The fear is that the stability of Western Europe...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 73 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
At once an invaluable photographic record of life in Weimer Berlin and a timeless demonstration of the cinema's ability to enthrall on a purely visceral level, Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (Berlin, die Symphonie der Grosstadt) offers a kaleidoscopic view of a single day in the life of a bustling metropolis. Carl Mayer (The Last Laugh), influenced by the naturalistic Kammerspiel movement, envisioned "a melody of pictures" sprung from daily reality...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Jan Ole Gerster's wry and vibrant feature debut A Coffee in Berlin, which swept the 2013 German Oscar Awards, paints a day in the life of Niko, a twenty-something college dropout going nowhere fast. Niko lives for the moment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, curiously observing everyone around him and oblivious to his growing status as an outsider. Then on one fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything changes:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bernhard Gunther, a private investigator in Germany in 1938, is hired by a rich widow to discover who has been blackmailing her, and by the Berlin police to track down a serial killer, and runs into bizarre psychotherapy and medicinal practices and Nazi occultism.
18) Casting about
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 86 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Casting about is a lyrical documentary that illuminates the grit, mystery and raw emotion behind the process of casting actors. Shot from the filmmaker's point of view, the viewer encounters many of the 350 diverse actresses who test for a trio of roles in a dramatic film, in auditions held in Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London and Los Angeles. Deftly weaving together interviews, monologues, private moments, the film creates an impressionistic and moving...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twentysomething living in Berlin, is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis, losing her student visa, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her fate. Increasingly distant from what used to be at arm's reach-writerly ambitions, tight-knit friendships, a place to call home-Leyla attempts to find solace in the techno beats of Berlin's nightlife, with...
20) The Oppermanns
Author
Publisher
McNally Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First McNally Editions paperback.
Physical Desc
xviii, 380 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the foment of Weimar-era Berlin, the Oppermann brothers represent tradition and stability. One brother oversees the furniture chain founded by their grandfather, one is an eminent surgeon, one a respected critic. They are rich, cultured, liberal, and public spirited, proud inheritors of the German enlightenment. They don't see Hitler as a threat. Then, to their horror, the Nazis come to power, and the Oppermanns and their children are faced with...
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