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The secret history of Audrey James : a novel / [Book Club Set] / by Marshall, Heather(Heather J.),author.;
Northern England, 2010 After a tragic accident upends her life, Kate Mercer leaves London to work at an old guest house near the Scottish border, where she hopes to find a fresh start and heal from her loss. When she arrives, she begins to unravel the truth about her past, but discovers the mysterious elderly proprietor is harbouring her own secrets ... Berlin, 1938 Audrey James is weeks away from graduating from a prestigious music school in Berlin, where she's been living with her best friend, Ilse Kaplan. As she prepares to finish her piano studies, Audrey dreads the thought of returning to her father in England and leaving Ilse behind. Families like the Kaplans are being targeted, and the stakes grow higher by the day. Restrictions tighten, the borders close to Jews, and rumours swirl about people being apprehended in the street and shipped off to work camps. When Ilse's parents and brother suddenly disappear, two high-ranking Nazi party members confiscate the Kaplans' upscale home, believing it to be empty. In a desperate attempt to keep Ilse safe, Audrey becomes housekeeper for the officers while Ilse is forced into hiding in the attic--a prisoner in her own home. As war in Europe threatens, it isn't long before a shocking turn of events pushes Audrey to become embroiled in cell of the anti-Hitler movement: clusters of resisters working to bring down the Nazis from within Germany itself. But resistance comes with risk, and before the war is over, Audrey must decide what matters most: saving herself, her friend, or sacrificing everything for the greater good.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Anti-Nazi movement; Female friendship; Jewish families; Jewish women; Music students; Secrecy; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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Killing the SS : the hunt for the worst war criminals in history / by O'Reilly, Bill,author.; Dugard, Martin,author.;
"The latest history book from bestselling author Bill O'Reilly"--
Subjects: Harel, Isser, 1912-2003.; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel; Israel. Mosad le-modiʻin ṿe-tafḳidim meyuḥadim; Nazi hunters; World War, 1939-1945; War criminals; Fugitives from justice;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Vienna writers circle / by Maetis, J. C.,author.;
"Spring, 1938: Café Mozart in the heart of Vienna is beloved by its clientele, including cousins Mathias Kraemer and Johannes Namal. The two writers are as close as brothers. They are also members of Freud's Circle--a unique group of the famed psychiatrist's friends and acquaintances who once gathered regularly at the bright and airy café to talk about books and ideas over coffee and pastries. But dark days are looming. With Hitler's annexation of Austria, Nazi edicts governing daily life become stricter and more punitive. Now Hitler has demanded that the "hidden Jews" of Vienna be tracked down, and Freud's Circle has been targeted. The SS aims to use old group photos to identify Jewish intellectuals and subversives. With the vise tightening around them, Mathias and Johannes's only option appears to be hiding in plain sight, using assumed names and identities to evade detection, aware that discovery would mean consignment to a camp or execution. Faced with stark and desperate choices, Mathias, Johannes, their families and friends all find their loyalties and courage tested in unimaginable ways. But despite betrayal, heartache and imprisonment, hope remains, and with it, the determination to keep those they love alive, and Mathias and Johannes at the same time discovering that what originally condemned them--their writing--might also be their salvation"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Anonyms and pseudonyms; Authors; Jewish authors; Jews; Nazis;
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The boy in the woods [videorecording] / by motion picture adaptation of (work):Smart, Maxwell,1930-Boy in the woods.; Armitage, Richard,1971-actor.; Klyne, Jett,actor.; Kohlsmith, David,actor.; Snow, Rebecca,1988-screenwriter,film director.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.;
Jett Klyne, David Kohlsmith, Richard Armitage.The remarkable true story of Max, a Jewish boy escaping Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. After he is separated from his family, Max finds refuge with Christian peasant Jasko, who hides him in plain sight until a tense standoff with Nazi police. Afraid for his own family's life, Jasko sends Max to live in the woods, where he learns to survive alone. With echoes of a Grimms' fairy tale, Max's experience is both terrifying and magical. He inhabits a landscape crawling with Nazis and partisans and haunted by ghosts.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; War films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Smart, Maxwell, 1930-; Jewish families; Jews; Nazis; World War, 1939-1945; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Wilderness survival; Male friendship;
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The Director : a novel / by Kehlmann, Daniel,1975-author.; Benjamin, Ross,translator.; translation of:Kehlmann, Daniel,1975-Lichtspiel.English.;
An artist's life, a pact with the devil, and the dangerous illusions of the silver screen. G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him. When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels--the minister of propaganda in Berlin--sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels's thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement. Kehlmann's latest oeuvre explores the complicated relationships and distinctions between art and power, beauty and barbarism, cog and conspirator.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Pabst, G. W. (Georg Wilhelm), 1885-1967; Collaborationists; Motion picture producers and directors; Nazi propaganda; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Resist : a story of D-Day / by Gratz, Alan,1972-;
"When French-Algerian Samira's mother is arrested by the Nazis, Samira must go on a journey through Nazi-occupied France to save her before it is too late...on the same day as D-Day"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; World War, 1939-1945; Government, Resistance to;
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All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler / by Donner, Rebecca,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
Subjects: Biographies.; Harnack-Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943.; Rote Kapelle (Resistance group); Americans; Anti-Nazi movement; Espionage; Executions and executioners; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Code name Verity / by Wein, Elizabeth.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-343) and Internet addresses.Filmography: p. 341-342.In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Spy stories.; Women air pilots; Best friends; Female friendship; Nazis; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2012., Hyperion,
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The lost Book of Bonn : a novel / by Labuskes, Brianna,author.;
"Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners, but for Emmy, who sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of pages, it feels just as important. On Emmy's first day at work, she finds a poetry collection by Rainer Maria Rilke, and on the title page is a handwritten dedication: "To Annelise, my brave Edelweiss Pirate." Emmy is instantly intrigued by the story behind the dedication and becomes determined to figure out what happened. The hunt for the rightful owner of the book leads Emmy to two sisters, a horrific betrayal, and an extraordinary protest against the Nazis that was held in Berlin at the height of the war. Nearly a decade earlier, hundreds of brave women gathered in the streets after their Jewish husbands were detained by the Gestapo. Through freezing rain and RAF bombings, the women faced down certain death and did what so few others dared to do under the Third Reich. They said no. Emmy grapples with her own ghosts as she begins to wonder if she's just chasing two more. What she finds instead is a powerful story of love, forgiveness, and courage that brings light to even the darkest of postwar days"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Anti-Nazi movement; Books and reading; Sisters; Women librarians; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Taking Berlin : the bloody race to defeat the Third Reich / by Dugard, Martin,author.;
"A nonfiction thriller about the race between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Germany"--
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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