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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day's breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother's death. When Josef Weber, am elderly man in Sage's grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can't, and they become companions. Everything changes...
23) Crimes of war
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Language
English
Description
When the Special Prosecutions Unit dedicated to investigating and indicting Nazi war criminals in Canada is ordered to close, Dennis Connor, the last employee of the SPU, begins sending anonymous letters to Friedrich Reile, a former SS man guilty of horrendous crimes on the eastern front, in a last-ditch effort to make him pay.
24) River of death
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English
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An expedition venturing into the Brazilian rain forest could not imagine what awaited them; those who survived would never forget.
26) The winter guest
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English
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"Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation. The constant threat of arrest has made everyone in their village a spy, and turned neighbor against neighbor. Though rugged, independent Helena and pretty, gentle Ruth couldn't be more different, they are staunch allies in protecting their family from the threats the war brings closer...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At Heim Hochland, a Nazi sanctioned maternity home in Bavaria, three women's fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant student from Berlin-an Aryan beauty, she's secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde, only 18, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official's child. And Irma, a 44-year-old nurse, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose....
Pub. Date
19uu
Language
English
Description
There's something new about hatred and racism-- its approach. This program exposes the new face of hate through detailed case studies that show how neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups have targeted America's youth via mass media, particularly the internet, so readily available in schools and homes. The grim example of Lancaster, California, demonstrates how "edge" communities--small towns outside cities--can become recruiting grounds for gangs such...
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Publisher
The Write Direction Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A trail of high profile sniper victims across Norther Ireland. Rising tension over the US president's imminent visit. And the ongoing bloody conflict driven by republican terrorists. Ex-CIA war crimes investigator Joe Johnson quickly realizes there's much more to it after he's called to Belfast by a man who claims to be worried about the impact on his business of a long series of terrorist bombs and shootings.
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English
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"Private Investigator Roland Ford hunts for a missing teenager and uncovers a dark conspiracy ... When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman to find her missing younger sister, private investigator Roland Ford immediately senses that the case is not what it seems. He is soon swept up in a web of lies and secrets as he searches for the teenager, and even his new client cannot be trusted. His investigation leads him to a secretive charter school,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle.
Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann—names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse and Gerda...
These are the women behind the infamous men—complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated...
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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a "Pro-American Rally." Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the "Jewish controlled media" and called for a return to a racially "pure" America.
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Publisher
Pushkin Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Daniel befriends Josef Gerlach, he feels the old man is haunted by a secret from his past. Sure enough when Josef gives him his teenage diary to read, Daniel discovers a shocking story of rebellion and struggle. The diary tells how Josef left the Hitler Youth for a gang called The Edelweiss Pirates. Their uniform: long hair and cool clothes. Their motto: freedom! At first the Pirates are only interested in hanging out and having...
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Series
Prisoner of night and fog volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter.
Author
Publisher
Tempus Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Staying behind in territory occupied by the Allies, the Werewolf guerrilla movement's mission was to carry out acts of sabotage, arson and assassination, both of enemy troops and of 'defeatist' Germans. The author has researched the movement exhaustively and details their operations. The USSR remained conscious of them well up into the 1950s.
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English
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"It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of...
38) Blood for blood
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Series
Wolf by wolf volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In this alternate version of the 1950s, after the Axis powers win World War II, Yael, a Jewish skinshifter, fails in her mission to kill Hitler and finds herself being hunted while trying to finish what she started.
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English
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"Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to 'new homes' where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
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English
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A story about the life of a young Jewish bride during the Nazi occupation of Krakw̤, Poland, in WWII. Emma Bau, a shy librarian, escapes the city's Jewish ghetto with the aid of the underground resistance movement that Jacob, her activist husband, has already joined. Emma assumes a new gentile identity as Anna Lipowski and goes to live with Jacob's elderly aunt, a wealthy Catholic widow who has also taken in Lukasz Izakowicz, the only surviving child...