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The lost masterpiece / by Shapiro, Barbara A.,1951-author.;
"In a gripping novel full of plot twists, B. A. Shapiro embeds us in a circle of famous painters in late-nineteenth-century Paris, centering on the anguished Impressionist artist Berthe Morisot -- the one woman in their midst who never got her due -- and the story of Morisot's great-great-great-great granddaughter, Tamara Rubin, who has inherited Édouard Manet's Party on the Seine, a painting that completely upends her life. When Tamara inherits Party, she discovers a long-hidden family history replete with unanswered questions: How had it been stolen by the Nazis? How had the painting managed to survive three disasters that destroyed every other artwork around it? And most of all, why had she never known about her ancestor, Berthe Morisot? As the painting begins to metamorphose into darker and more terrifying versions of itself, Tamara's ordinary life is thrown into turmoil. What wounds and resentments plagued Morisot, and to what lengths will her spirit go for revenge?"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Art thefts; Family secrets; Inheritance and succession; Paintings; Women artists;
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Postmark Berlin : a mystery / by Emery, Anne,author.;
"Father Brennan Burke is struggling, and he's been coping the only way he knows how: self-medicating with drink. He's barely managing, but his troubles intensify when the body of one of his parishioners washes up on the coast of Halifax. Meika Keller came to Canada after escaping past a checkpoint in the Berlin Wall. An army colonel is charged with her murder, and defence lawyer Monty argues that Meika's death was a suicide, which is the last thing Father Burke wants to hear. Guilty of neglecting his duties as a priest when Meika needed him most, Brennan feels compelled to uncover whatever instigated her cry for help and led to her death. The story takes us from the historic Navy town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the history-laden city of Berlin, as Brennan and his brother Terry head to Germany in search of answers. And while Brennan will stop at nothing to find what, or who, is responsible for Meika's death, nothing could have prepared the priest for the events that unfold."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Clergy; Alcoholics; Murder;
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The 12th man [videorecording] / by Blokhus, Marie,actor.; Gullestad, Thomas,actor.; Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan,1977-actor.; Zwart, Harald,1965-film director.; Scream Factory (Firm),publisher.; Shout! Factory (Firm),publisher.;
Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus.Based on a true story, this gripping World War II drama from Norway focuses on Jan Baalsrud (Thomas Gullestad), a Norwegian resistance fighter who becomes the sole survivor of a 1943 sabotage mission when the other 11 members of his team are killed. Baalsrud's attempt to escape to Sweden forces him to cross a harsh frozen landscape while being pursued by a determined Gestapo officer (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers).14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; War films.; Baalsrud, Jan; Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei; Resistance movements, War; Survival; Escapes; World War, 1939-1945;
For private home use only.
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Faster, higher, farther : the Volkswagen scandal / by Ewing, Jack,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Volkswagenwerk; Automobile industry and trade; Corporations; Volkswagen automobiles;
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More than honey [videorecording] / by Hoppenhaus, Kerstin.; Imhoof, Markus,1941-; Jaggi, Fred.; Menzel, Randolf,1940-; Miller, John.; Singer, Liane.; Allegro Film (Firm); Kino Lorber Edu (Firm); Kino Lorber, Inc.; Ormenis Film (Firm); Thelma Film AG.; Zero One Film (Firm);
Cinematography, Jrg Jeshel and Attila Boa ; editing, Anne Fabini ; screenplay, Markus Imhoof, Kerstin Hoppenhaus ; music, Peter Scherer.Featuring: Fred Jaggi, Randolf Menzel, John Miller, Liane Singer, Heidrun Singer, Zhang Zhao Su, Fred Terry, Boris Baer.An in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China, and Australia. Tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction.E.DVD.
Subjects: Colony collapse disorder of honeybees.; Documentary films.; Feature films.; Foreign films; Honeybee; Motion pictures, German.; Nature films.;
© c2013., Kino Lorber,
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Traitors among us : a novel / by Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk.;
Includes bibliographical references.After the end of World War II, Ukrainian sisters Krystia and Maria reunite in a displaced persons camp, where they are unjustly accused of collaboration with the Nazis and face interrogation by the Soviets for crimes they never committed.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Sisters; Refugees; World War, 1939-1945;
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Shadows of Berlin : a novel / by Gillham, David R.,author.;
"1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American housewife, not until she can shake the ghosts of her past and the tremendous guilt that weighs down on her, her own "crime" of survival"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Choice (Psychology); Guilt; Holocaust survivors; Jewish refugees; Women artists;
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The orphan's tale / by Jenoff, Pam,author.;
Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Circus; Teenage mothers; Jews; World War, 1939-1945;
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All the light we cannot see : a novel / by Doerr, Anthony,1973-;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Blind; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© 2014., Scribner,
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A single spy [sound recording] / by Christie, William,1960-author.; Fliakos, Ari,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Ari Fliakos."A single spy--in the right place and at the right moment--may change the course of history." Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Alexsi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the secret police, he is given a choice: be trained and inserted as a spy into Nazi Germany under the identity of his best friend, the long lost nephew of a high ranking Nazi official, or disappear forever in the basement of the Lubyanka. For Alexsi, it's no choice at all. Over the course of the next seven years, Alexsi has to live his role, that of the devoted nephew of a high Nazi official, and ultimately works for the legendary German spymaster Wilhelm Canaris as an intelligence agent in the Abwehr. All the while, acting as a double agent--reporting back to the NKVD and avoiding detection by the Gestapo. Trapped between the implacable forces of two of the most notorious dictatorships in history, and truly loyal to no one but himself, Alexsi's goal remains the same--survival. In 1943, Alexsi is chosen by the Gestapo to spearhead one of the most desperate operations of the war--to infiltrate the site of the upcoming Tehran conference between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, and set them up to be assassinated. For Alexsi, it's the moment of truth; for the rest of the world, the future is at stake"--
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Undercover operations; Intelligence officers;
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