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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the highly praised Days of Awe: a sweeping, achingly beautiful new novel that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present day Wisconsin, unspooling a story of love, longing, and the ceaseless push and pull of motherhood"--
"Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
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"In the summer of 1933, a man named Adolf Hitler is the new and powerful anti-Semitic chancellor of Germany. But in Los Angeles, no-nonsense secretary Liesl Weiss has concerns much closer to home. The Great Depression is tightening its grip and Liesl is the sole supporter of two children, an opinionated mother, and a troubled brother. Leon Lewis is a Jewish lawyer who has watched Adolf Hitler's rise to power--and the increase in anti-Semitism in America--with...
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
"El sonido de la vida es un emocionante viaje que comienza en Hanover en 1904 y termina en Beatrice, Misuri, en la actualidad. El narrador es James, el nieto de Frederick y Jette, una pareja que se enamora a pesar de la oposición de todos. La única alternativa que les queda es huir de su Alemania natal a Estados Unidos, la tierra de las oportunidades a comienzos del siglo XX. El destino los lleva hasta esa pequeña ciudad de Misuri, donde deciden...
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Series
Publisher
Arcade CrimeWise
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1836 in the fast-growing town of Adamant. The young Pennsylvania Dutch sheriff Gideon has a new case when a beautiful woman - suspected of witchcraft and residing in a nearby German settlement - is murdered. Suffering from a head injury after a fall off his horse, Gideon can't recall anything that happened at the time of the woman's death. As flashes of memory return, he realizes that not only did he know the victim, he was with her the night...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing upon a long-suppressed episode in American history, when thousands of German immigrants were rounded up and interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor, In Our Midst tells the story of one family's fight to cling to the ideals of freedom and opportunity that brought them to America. Nina and Otto Aust, along with their teenage sons, feel the foundation of their American lives crumbling when, in the middle of the annual St. Nikolas Day celebration...
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Series
Language
English
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Ali Reynolds' personal life is in turmoil when two separate men show up on the scene - a serial killer and a former employee of her husband's who has just been released from a sixteen-year prison sentence. According to the courts, Mateo Vega, a one-time employee of B. Simpson, murdered his girlfriend. But Mateo knows that her real killer is still on the loose. Mateo gets a job working for B. once again, and just as he starts his new job, chaos breaks...
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