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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2019
"This is the answer to the question of what contemporary fiction can do." —Edward Docx, Guardian
Accompanying his wife on a prestigious arts fellowship in Berlin, a Nigerian scholar finds there are no walls between his privileged, secure existence and the stories of others in the African diaspora, including a transgender film student seeking the freedom to live an authentic
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
2016 Christy Award Winner! (Historical novel category)
2016 Carol Award Winner! (Historical category)
All her life, Hannah Sterling longed for a close relationship with her estranged mother. Following Lieselotte's death, Hannah determines to unlock the secrets of her mother's mysterious past and is shocked to discover a grandfather living in Germany.
Thirty years earlier, Lieselotte's father is quickly ascending the ranks of the...
2016 Carol Award Winner! (Historical category)
All her life, Hannah Sterling longed for a close relationship with her estranged mother. Following Lieselotte's death, Hannah determines to unlock the secrets of her mother's mysterious past and is shocked to discover a grandfather living in Germany.
Thirty years earlier, Lieselotte's father is quickly ascending the ranks of the...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Set in a devastated Berlin one month after the close of the Second World War, Berlin has been acclaimed as ambitious . . . filled with brilliantly drawn characters, mesmerizingly readable, and disturbingly convincing" by the Sunday Telegraph. An electrifying thriller in the tradition of Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst, Berlin is a page-turner and an intimate portrait of Germany before, during, and after the war. It is 1945 in the American sector of occupied...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Targeted by McCarthyism for his prewar politics, a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to America makes a desperate bargain with a fledgling CIA to work as a spy in a decimated Berlin.
"From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage--called a "fast-moving thinking man's thriller" by The Wall Street Journal--comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation....
Author
Series
Charlotte Holmes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Jamie and Charlotte are looking for a winter break reprieve in Sussex after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But nothing about their time off is proving simple, including Holmes and Watson’s growing feelings for each other. When Charlotte’s beloved Uncle Leander goes missing from the Holmes estate—after being oddly private about his latest assignment in a German art forgery ring—the game is afoot once again,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who can you trust if you don't know who you are? She arrives at the train station only to realize her bag had been stolen--her passport, credit cards, laptop, house key now all gone. And even more disturbing, when she goes to report the incident, she can't recall her own name. All she has on her is a train ticket home. Suffering from stress-induced amnesia, the woman without a name is a source of mystery when she appears at the sleepy Wiltshire village...
9) Cabaret
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Sally Bowles, an American cabaret singer in 1930s Berlin, becomes involved in the rise of the Nazi party.
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