(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
2) Assegai
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
Former soldier and big-game safari guide Leon Courtney is catapulted into fame for his bravery during a Teddy Roosevelt hunting tour, for which he is recruited to gather intelligence about a rebellion plot against Britain.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale Paris, 1919. The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly. Brought to the peace conference by her father, a German diplomat, Margot Rosenthal initially resents being trapped in the congested French capital, where she is still looked upon as...
10) River's edge
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
559 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
404 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While her husband is away in the army, Vivienne de la Mare, living in a farmhouse on World War II-occupied Guernsey in the Channel Island with her two daughters and mother-in-law, falls in love with a German officer and must make a difficult decision that could tear her family apart.
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Returning from maternity leave to investigate recently discovered human bones on a remote beach, Dr. Ruth Galloway reluctantly partners with her baby's married father, DCI Harry Nelson, in a case involving a World War II crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Making the acquaintances of a young widow and her German grandfather, new arrivals in the Depression-era Hudson Valley, Robert Brewster and his sister, Lily, fear for their new friends' safety when a swastika is found painted on the widow's window.
16) The German wife
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspired by the true story of Operation Paperclip: a controversial secret US intelligence program that employed former Nazis after WWII. Berlin, Germany, 1930—When the Nazis rise to power, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes and her academic husband benefit from the military ambitions of Germany’s newly elected chancellor when Jürgen is offered a high-level position...
17) We are wolves
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Russian army marches into East Prussia at the end of World War II, the Wolf family flees, but Liesl, Otto, and their baby sister, Mia, are separated from their mother, and they are forced to do dangerous things to survive..
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's story was no isolated incident. During Hitler's rise to...