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2011. | First American edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 304. | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F SCHUL |
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2011 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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From one of Germany’s finest writers comes a wonderfully light and humorous novel set during the tumultuous events of 1989. A wobbling Hungary has just opened its borders to Austria enabling a flood of refugees to escape, the Berlin Wall is on the cusp of falling, and, yet, seemingly sheltered from this onrushing new world in their idyllic East German home are Adam, a tailor and dressmaker who enjoys a life of dressing (and undressing) his appreciative...
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943.155 KEMPE
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943.155 KEMPE
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2011] | G.P. Putnam's Sons | xxv, 579 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 943.155 KEMPE Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 943.155 KEMPE |
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[2011] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 17 audio discs (20 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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Based on a wealth of new documents and interviews, filled with fresh--sometimes startling--insights, written with immediacy and drama, "Berlin 1961" is a masterly look at key events of the 20th century, with powerful applications to these early years of the 21st.
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2007. | HarperCollins | xxi, 486 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 943.155 TAYLO |
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2009 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"This vivid account of the Wall and all that it meant reminds us that symbolism can be double-edged, as a potent emblem of isolation and repression became, in its destruction, an even more powerful totem of freedom." — The Atlantic Monthly
On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends, and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly split
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327.1273 WHITT
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327.1273 WHITT
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[2010] | First edition. | Broadway Books | xxii, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 327.1273 WHITT Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 327.1273 WHITT |
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2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie
“A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and clandestine activity.”—The Wall Street...
“A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and clandestine activity.”—The Wall Street...
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2018. | First edition. | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | ix, 363 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 781.66 BERGMAN MOHR |
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"The history of how teenage East German punk rockers played an indispensable role in bringing down the Berlin Wall"--
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943.155 MACGR
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
943.155 MACGR
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943.155 MACGR
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2019. | Scribner | viii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 943.155 MACGR Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 943.155 MACGR Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 943.155 MACGR |
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"Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was to divide one of the most beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world; dividing families, friends and lovers. Its creation, and its sudden collapse...
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943.155 SAROT
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©2014. | Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group | xxvi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 943.155 SAROT |
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"In The Collapse historian Mary Elise Sarette shows that the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, was not, as is commonly believed, the East German government's deliberate concession to outside influence. It was an accident. A carelessly worded memo written by mid-level bureaucrats, a bumbling press conference given by an inept member of the East German Politburo, the negligence of government leaders, the bravery of ordinary people in East...
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Bolshoi saga volume 1
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2013. | Soho Teen | 264 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF KIEM |
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2013 | OverDrive | Soho Press | English | Available Online
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After a harrowing defection to the United States in 1982, Russian teenager Marya and her father settle in Brooklyn, where Marya is drawn into a web of intrigue involving her gift of foresight, her mother's disappearance, and a boy she cannot bring herself to trust.
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B WILLNER FAMILY
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B WILLNER FAMILY
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2016] | First edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | xxii, 391 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Biography 1 available B WILLNER FAMILY Columbia Pike - Adult Biography 1 available B WILLNER FAMILY |
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out
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"In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped...
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Balloonmakers volume 1
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2017. | Albert Whitman & Company | 277 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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2017 | OverDrive | Albert Whitman & Company | English | Available Online
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"When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall-but even to the balloon makers, Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything-including her...
11) Going over
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[2014] | Chronicle Books | 262 pages : map ; 22 cm | English | Available
Westover - Teen Fiction 1 available YF KEPHA |
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In the early 1980s Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall--Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West.
12) Good bye Lenin!
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[2004] | Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound ; 4 3/4 in. | Deutsch | Available
Central - Adult DVD 1 available DVD FOREIGN GER GOODB |
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Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
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[2009] | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | xv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 973.922 SMYSE |
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2007. | Widescreen. | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound ; 4 3/4 in. | Deutsch | Available
Central - Adult DVD 1 available DVD FOREIGN GER LIVES |
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Set in East Berlin in 1984, a secret service agent assigned to monitor a playwright and his girlfriend begins to question his assignment and his loyalty to the government.
15) A night divided
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JF NIELS
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JF NIELS
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©2015. | First edition. | Scholastic Press | 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Glencarlyn - Kids Fiction 1 available JF NIELS Westover - Kids Fiction 1 available JF NIELS |
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2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Scholastic Audio | English | Available Online
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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.
16) Sekret
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Sekret volume 1
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©2014. | First edition. | Roaring Brook Press | 345 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF SMITH |
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Follows a group of psychic teenagers in 1960s Soviet Russia who are forced to use their powers to spy for the KGB.
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George Smiley novels volume 3
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2013. | Penguin | xiv, 225 pages ; 21 cm | English |
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[2014] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 6 audio discs (7 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult Audiobooks 2 available CD F LECAR |
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2012 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement or worse-a desk job-Control offers him a unique opportunity for revenge. Assuming the guise of an embittered and dissolute ex-agent, Leamas is set up to trap Mundt, the deputy director of the East German Intelligence Service-with...
18) Stasi child
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Karin Muller series volume 1
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2017. | First U.S. edition. | Minotaur Books | 408 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Detective 1 available D YOUNG |
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"1975: When Oberleutnant Karin Muller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Berlin Wall, she imagines she's seen it all before. But she soon realizes that this is a death like no other before it - the girl was evidently trying to escape from West Berlin. As a member of the People's Police, Muller's power in East Germany only stretches so far. The Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, assures her the case is closed, all...
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c2016. | First edition. | Crown | 382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 943.155 MITCH |
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"A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films. In the summer of 1962, one year after East German Communists built the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans came up with a plan. They would risk prison, Stasi torture, even death...
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J 943.155 MEDIN
Westover - Kids Nonfiction 1 available
J 943.155 MEDIN
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | Penguin Workshop | 108 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. | English | Available
Shirlington - Kids Nonfiction 1 available J 943.155 MEDIN Westover - Kids Nonfiction 1 available J 943.155 MEDIN |
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Describes the history of the Berlin Wall, from its construction in 1961 to divide the city of Berlin to its destruction in 1989.