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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....
Author
Language
English
Description
Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who is particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor, to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he is right. Can someone who has committed a truly heinous act...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
437, 15 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after being embroiled in the Nazi regime of 1934 Berlin, detective Bernie Gunther pursues a quieter life in Havana but is thwarted by an encounter with a killer from his past who is murdered at the same time a former lover reappears.
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
343 pages 22 cm.
Language
English
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Historical Fiction
Strong Female Characters
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Historical Fiction
Strong Female Characters
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Description
October 11th, 1943--A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face...
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
1950: Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Argentina with hopes of a new life and a clean passport. But Argentina, holds terrible secrets within its corrupt halls of power. When beautiful Anna Yagubsky seeks Gunther out, desperate for help, to find out what happened to her Jewish aunt and uncle who have disappeared, he is drawn into a horror story that rivals everything he has tried so hard to leave behind.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
391 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Stefan Lindman, a young policeman just diagnosed with cancer of the tongue, travels to Harjedalen, Sweden to investigate the murder of a former colleague, who seems to have been hiding some shocking secrets about his involvement in the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
454 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village, wounded, but alive, she risks the safety of herself and her family, to hide Sam--a Jew. Soon her concern for the American grows into something much deeper--an attraction that will culminate in a singular act of betrayal that endangers them all--and sets in motion a chain of events that will reverberate across continents and decades.
Author
Series
Wolf by wolf volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this alternate version of the 1950s, after the Axis powers win World War II, Yael, a Jewish skinshifter, fails in her mission to kill Hitler and finds herself being hunted while trying to finish what she started.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A historically-based fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who reinvents himself as a middle-class factory owner and family man in France, chronicling his work as an assassin and bureaucrat during the genocide of the Jews.
11) Thunder point
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Phoenix Books
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
British agents search for the secret diaries of Martin Bormann that reveal British Nazi sympathizers and the secret plan Protocol.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Becoming a spy for the resistance after the Nazi's invade Poland, Emma Bau, taking on a new identity as a gentile, becomes a high-ranking Nazi official's assistant and, leading a double life, compromises her marriage vows, her safety, and the lives of those she loves for the cause.
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.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maggie Hope was in England to sell her grandmother's house and planned to leave as soon as her business was concluded. While she was there, England declared war on Germany and she decides to extend her stay to lend a hand. Even though she has talent for codebreaking, Maggie takes a job as Winston Churchill's secretary. But is she a pawn in a deadly game to bring the prime minister down and seal England's fate?
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fearat their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance...
18) 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
Series
Fargo adventures volume 9
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan, in the thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, as history knows, the Romanovs died anyway. And the ransom? During World War II, the Nazis stole it from the Russians, and after that--it vanished....
20) Silver nitrate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Trist̀n, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Trist̀n discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if...
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