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English
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After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work-but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and lies...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their medieval French village, though some whisper that fifteen-year-old Sylvie and her grand-m�ere deal in more than herbs and medicines...After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use magic to heal her mother's grief brooks tragic consequences, Sylvie leaves her village in search of a teacher"--
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 107
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany captures the triumphs and tragedies, successes and failures, relationships, loves, and ordinary events of everyday middle-class life
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Language
English
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A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scent a sure kill in the "War on Terror," and converge upon the innocents.
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On the outer deck of a North Sea ferry stands Futh, a middle-aged and newly separated man, on his way to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. After an inexplicably hostile encounter with a hotel landlord, Futh sets out along the Rhine. As he contemplates an earlier trip to Germany and the things he has done in his life, he does not foresee the potentially devastating consequences of things not done. This novel tells the tense, gripping story...
6) Rebellion
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 407
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Andreas Pum, having lost his leg in the war, is rewarded with a permit to support himself by playing a barrel organ in the streets. At first the simple-minded veteran is entirely satisfied with his lot, and he even finds a widow to marry. But then a qurrel on a tram turns Andreas's life onto a rapid downward trajectory. As he loses first his beggar's permit, then his new wife, and even his freedom, he is finally provoked into rejecting his blind...
7) El lector
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Cuando el adolescente Michael Berg cae enfermo volviendo a casa del colegio, es ayudado por Hanna, una mujer que lo dobla en edad. Con el tiempo, ella se convertira en su amante, cautivandolo con su pasion, pero confundiendolo con sus silencios. Pero un dia, Hanna desaparece sin dejar rastro. Siete anos despues, Michael, ahora estudiante de derecho, vuelve a ver a Hanna cuando esta es llevada a juicio por un horrible crimen del que se niega a defenderse....
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Taylor-Clarke sits in her chair at Forest Lawns Care Home in the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by residents with minds not as sharp as hers...Because Evelyn is a woman with secrets and Evelyn remembers everything. She can never forget the promise she made to the love of her life, to discover the truth about the mission that led to his death...Eveyn is transported back to a place in Germany known as The Forbidden Village, where...
Author
Series
Bestseller) volume 772
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
2. ed.
Language
Español
Description
"Estrecho de Gibraltar, 1940. En el epicentro de una tormenta, el capitán Gonzalez rescata a un grupo de náufragos alemanes. Cuando cesa el temporal, el cabecilla le obsequia con un emblema de oro macizo. De la conversación con ellos, Gonzalez no olvidará dos palabras: traición y salvación. En torno a esta emblema gira la aventura de Paul, un joven huérfano que vive con su madre y sus tíos, los barones Von Schroeder. Una revelación oculta...
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Publisher
Weeping Willow Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Rabbi Elijah Daniels experiences more than a little anxiety when he agrees to tour Germany. His good friend, Pastor Dan Winter, assures him it will be a good experience and the Evangelical students he would accompany would benefit from a rabbi's perspective as they tour the country. The rabbi nonetheless worries about how he will respond to the nation that massacred more than six million Jews during World War II. After his arrival, though, he encounters...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Jed--young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago--flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind the Berlin Wall, is where he's chosen to become the figure that he so admires, the black American expatriate. Newly sober and nostalgic for the Weimar days of Isherwood and Auden, Jed arrives to chase boys and to...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 289
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity.
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