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The song of the jade lily : a novel / by Manning, Kirsty,author.; Manning, Kirsty.Jade lily.;
Includes bibliographical references.1939: Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the "Paris of the East". Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the Shanghai Ghetto. Yet soon the realities of war prove to be too much for these close friends as they are torn apart. 2016: Fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm. Her grandfather is dying, and over the coming weeks Romy and Wilhelm begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century. As fragments of her mother's history finally become clear, Alexandra struggles with what she learns while more is also revealed about her grandmother's own past in Shanghai. After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to trace her grandparents' past. Peeling back the layers of their hidden lives, she is forced to question what she knows about her family-- and herself.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Jews; Family secrets; Female friendship; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Heat wave / by Jennings, Maureen,author.;
"From the author of the Murdoch Mysteries books. July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. Two events set the book's plot in motion: an anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, who up to now has not acknowledged his religion, and Hilliard Taylor, a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Café, which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly completely unrelated, come together in this wonderful novel that brings to life characters who are as real to the reader as those of the Murdoch series."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Private investigators; Anonymous letters; Jews, Canadian; Embezzlement;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Into the forest : a Holocaust story of survival, triumph, and love / by Frankel, Rebecca,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods--through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids--until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one family's inspiring true story of love, escape, and survival"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Rabinowitz family.; Lazowski, Philip.; Rabinowitz, Miriam Dworetsky, 1908-1981.; Rabinowitz, Morris, 1906-1982.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The dissident / by Goldberg, Paul,1959-author.;
"A novel set in 1970s Moscow following a group of Jewish dissidents"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cold War; Jews; Murder; Refuseniks;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fagin the thief : a novel / by Epstein, Allison,author.;
"Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London. Born in the Jewish enclave of Stepney shortly after his father was executed as a thief, Jacob and his open-minded mother, Leah, are each other's whole world. But Jacob's prospects are forever altered when a light-fingered pickpocket takes Jacob under his wing and teaches him a trade that pays far better than the neighborhood boys could possibly dream. Striking out on his own, Jacob familiarizes himself with London's highest value neighborhoods while forging his own path in the shadows. But everything changes when he adopts an aspiring teenage thief named Bill Sikes, whose mercurial temper poses a danger to himself and anyone foolish enough to cross him. Along the way, Jacob's found family expands to include his closest friend, Nancy, and his greatest protege, the Artful Dodger. But as Bill's ambition soars and a major robbery goes awry, Jacob is forced to decide what he really stands for-and what a life is worth."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Fagin (Fictitious character); Jews; Pickpockets; Thieves;
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Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis : Canada's anti-Semitic immigration policies in the twentieth century / by Arato, Rona.;
Includes bibliographical references, filmography, Internet addresses and index.A look at the increasing hostility towards Jews in Canada in the 1920s and 30s, and the refusal of the Canadian government to accept the refugee ship the MS St. Louis in 1939. The ship was carrying over 900 Jewish refugees, and it was forced to return to Europe, where hundreds of passengers were later killed in the Holocaust. Includes links to video clips.LSC
Subjects: St. Louis (Ship); Antisemitism; Jewish refugees; Jewish refugees; Jews; Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Queen of the Hanukkah dosas / by Ehrenberg, Pamela.; Sarkar, Anjan.;
A boy is worried that his little sister's climbing will spoil the first night of Hanukkah, when his family combines his father's Jewish traditions with his mother's East Indian cooking.LSC
Subjects: Hanukkah stories.; Jews; East Indian Americans; Brothers and sisters; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The plot against America [videorecording] / by Kazan, Zoe,1983-actor.; Ryder, Winona,1971-actor.; Spector, Morgan,1980-actor.; television adaptation of (work):Roth, Philip.Plot against America.; Turturro, John,1957-actor.; Home Box Office (Firm),production company,broadcaster.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Anthony Boyle, Azhy Robertson, Ben Cole.Based on Philip Roth's acclaimed novel, this limited series brilliantly imagines an alternate American history during WWII. Told through the eyes of the Levins, a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, the six-part limited series charts the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Thrillers (Television programs); Television programs.; Television mini-series.; Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974; Jews; Presidents; Presidents;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The last secret of the secret annex : the untold story of Anne Frank, her silent protector, and a family betrayal / by Wijk, Joop van,1949-author.; Bruyn, Jeroen de,1993-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Anne Frank's life has been studied by many scholars, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold, until now. As the youngest of the five Dutch people who hid the Frank family, Bep was Anne's closest confidante during the 761 excruciating days she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. Bep, who was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding, risked her life to protect them, plunging into Amsterdam's black market to source food and medicine for people who officially didn't exist under the noses of German soldiers and Dutch spies. In those cramped quarters, Bep and Anne's friendship bloomed through deep conversations, shared meals, and a youthful understanding. Told by her own son, it intertwines the story of Bep and her sister Nelly with Anne's iconic narrative. Nelly's name may have been scrubbed from Anne's published diary, but Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl and Jeroen De Bruyn expose details about her collaboration with the Nazis, a deeply held family secret. After the war, Bep tried to bury her memories just as the Secret Annex was becoming world famous as a symbol of resistance to the Nazi horrors. She never got over losing Anne nor could Bep put to rest the horrifying suspicion that those in the Annex had been betrayed by her own flesh and blood. This is a story about those caught in between the Jewish victims and Nazi persecutors, and the moral ambiguities and hard choices faced by ordinary families like the Voskuijls, in which collaborators and resisters often lived under the same roof.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Voskuijl, Bep, 1919-1983.; Frank, Anne, 1929-1945; Frank, Anne, 1929-1945.; Frank family.; Betrayal.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The living and the lost / by Feldman, Ellen,1941-author.;
'The Living and the Lost' is a gripping story of a young German Jewish woman who returns to Allied Occupied Berlin from America to face the past and the unexpected future. From the author of 'Paris Never Leaves You'. Book Club.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Refugees; Jews; World War, 1939-1945; Cold War;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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