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FIFA World Cup / by Hellebuyck, Adam.; Deimel, Laura.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.History: World Cup: Past and present -- Geography: A worldly event -- Civics: Bringing people together -- Economics: An expensive event -- Think about it -- For more information -- Glossary -- Index.GR: T.LSC
Subjects: Fédération internationale de football association; World Cup (Soccer); Soccer;
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Then / by Gleitzman, Morris.;
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Jews; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Survival skills; Orphans; Women farmers;
© 2013, c2008., Henry Holt,
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The daughters of Yalta : the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans : a story of love and war / by Katz, Catherine Grace,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II"--
Subjects: Churchill, Sarah, 1914-1982.; Mortimer, Kathleen Lanier Harriman, 1917-2011.; Roosevelt, Anna, 1906-1975.; Yalta Conference (1945 : I͡Alta, Ukraine); World War, 1939-1945; Children of presidents; Children of prime ministers;
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Book and dagger : how scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of World War II / by Graham, Elyse,1985-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's CIA, was quickly formed -- and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work -- and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts. In Book and Dagger, Elyse Graham draws on personal histories, diaries, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned unlikely spies. Among them are Joseph Curtiss, a literature professor who hunted down German spies and turned them into double agents; Sherman Kent, a smart-mouthed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis for all of Europe and Africa; and Adele Kibre, an archivist who was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable characters would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and transform American higher education when they returned after the war. Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis -- a tale that reveals the indelible power of humanities to change the world"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Curtiss, Joseph T., 1901-1992.; Kent, Sherman.; Kibre, Adele.; United States. Office of Strategic Services; College teachers; Espionage, American; Librarians; Spies; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Birds without wings / by de Bernieres, Louis;
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Islam; City and town life; Fathers and sons; Soldiers; Historical fiction; Religious fiction; War stories;
© c2004., A.A. Knopf Canada,
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The Columbine school shooting / by Gerdes, Louise I.,1953-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-186), Internet addresses (p. 194) and index.LSC
Subjects: Columbine High School (Littleton, Colo.); School shootings; Columbine High School Massacre, Littleton, Colo., 1999.;
© c2012., Gale, Cengage Learning,
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Sniper fire : the fight for Ortona / by Webb, Jonathan,1950-;
A dramatic account of Canada's first major triumph of World War II -- the December 1943 battle for Ortona Italy.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Infantry Division, 1st; Ortona, Battle of, Ortona, Italy, 1943; World War, 1939-1945; Soldiers;
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One final turn / by Weaver, Ashley,author.;
"The fifth and final installment in the Electra McDonnell series brings safecracker Ellie on a mission across World War II-era Europe to Lisbon, Portugal to rescue a key group of escaped POWs. Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission yet: go to Lisbon, Portugal to save her beloved cousin Toby who has reportedly escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Toby has been missing since the Battle of Dunkirk and Ellie had all but lost hope in ever seeing him again until Major Ramsey, the British military intelligence officer she had been working closely with over the past few months, shared the news he'd intercepted. Nothing will stop Ellie from finding her cousin, not even the awkward experience of having to travel to an unknown country with Ramsey after he'd dismissed her for being untrustworthy just as she'd realized she had fallen in love with him. Under the supervision of Captain Archie Blandings, a charming intelligence officer based in Lisbon, Ellie meets with undercover operatives to track down where Toby might be hiding from the Nazis and whether they are too late to safely recover him, all the while fighting her feelings for Ramsey and the incessant burden of war looming around her at every turn"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Spy fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Cousins; Intelligence officers; Man-woman relationships; Prisoners of war; Safecrackers; Undercover operations; Women private investigators; World War, 1939-1945;
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The eternal Nazi : from Mauthausen to Cairo, the relentless pursuit of SS doctor Aribert Heim / by Kulish, Nicholas.; Mekhennet, Souad.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The compelling story of the hunt for Aribert Heim, whose decades-long flight from justice turned a mid-level SS officer and concentration camp doctor into the most wanted Nazi war criminal in the world. Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a horrifying mark on the memories of survivors. According to their testimony, Heim euthanized patients with injections of gasoline into their hearts. He performed surgeries on otherwise healthy people. Some recalled prisoners' skulls set out on his desk to display perfect sets of teeth. In the chaos of the postwar period, Heim was able to slip away from his dark past and establish himself as a reputable doctor in the resort town of Baden-Baden. He was tall, handsome, a bit of a charmer, and quickly settled down with a wife and children in peace and comfort. But certain rare individuals in Germany were unwilling to let Nazi war criminals go unpunished. Among them was a police investigator named Alfred Aedtner, who turned finding Heim into an overriding obsession; his quest took him across Europe and across decades, and into a close alliance with legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. This is the incredible story of how Aribert Heim evaded capture, living in a working-class neighborhood of Cairo, praying in Arabic, beloved by an adopted Muslim family, while inspiring a manhunt that outlived him by many years. He became the "Eternal Nazi," a symbol of Germany's evolving attitude toward the sins of its past, which finally crested in a desire to see justice done at almost any cost"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Heim, Aribert, 1914-1982.; Mauthausen (Concentration camp); Fugitives from justice; Fugitives from justice; Human experimentation in medicine; Physicians; War criminals; World War, 1939-1945;
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The best Christmas pageant ever / by Robinson, Barbara,1927-; Cornell, Laura.;
The six horrible Herdmans, the worst children in the history of the world, take over the annual Christmas pageant.
Subjects: Christmas pageants; Behavior; Brothers and sisters; Christmas; Humorous stories.;
© c2011., Harper,
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