Book 3 of the SchattenreichDouble Couple begins in Burg Lahn, the ancestral home of the von der Lahn family deep in the hear of the Rhineland, Germany.Finally reunited, Caitlin Schwarzbach and Hagen von der Lahn, newly returned from his...
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Auteur:Reamer, Sharon KaeSommaire: - Auteur:Schmiesing, AnnSommaire:
Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms' Children's and Household Tales, the issue of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the...
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Auteur:Webb, BettySommaire:Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations, Jimmy Siswan, is leaving for an upscale wife and a job at Sun Microsystems. Her old Captain at the Scottsdale Police Department is off...
- Auteur:Enfield, EdwardSommaire:
Edward Enfield chronicles his adventures bike-riding through Europe for his voracious and curious fans. Here he takes a jaunt--for the first time--through Germany. With his characteristic wit and charm, Enfield describes the glorious...
- Auteur:Pattison, DarcySommaire:
Clang! Ernst Chladni's Sound Experiments by Darcy Pattison 2019 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book What if your science experiments were so interesting that even an Emperor wanted to know more? In 1806, scientist Ernst Chladni (...
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Auteur:Creedon, MarkSommaire:Caught Between Two Devils is based on the real-life experiences of Antanas Paskevicius, his wife Jadwyga, and his sister Maria. In April of 1944, their lives were forever altered when they were sent to a work camp in northeast Germany...
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Auteur:Behrens, PeterSommaire:A 2017 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature FinalistA 2016 Jewish Book Award FinalistBilly Lange is born in 1909 on the Isle of Wight, England, where his father is the skipper of a racing yacht belonging to a wealthy German-Jewish...
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Auteur:Hagood, JohnsonSommaire:Major General Johnson Hagood (1873–1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the 20th century. An artillerist and a scholar of military science, Hagood became a noted expert in logistics, and served as the...
- Auteur:Peters, ElizabethSommaire:
After Vicky Bliss stumbles over a clue to the existence of a hidden masterpiece by a late Gothic sculptor, she and her then-boyfriend, Tony, embark on a contest of will and wits to find the treasure.
- Auteur:Matas, CarolSommaire:
When a bomber is shot down over France during World War II, he is trapped behind enemy lines. His task is to get back to England to fly more missions.
- Auteur:Bauer, Josef MartinSommaire:
In 1944, German paratrooper Clemens Forell* was captured by the Soviets and sentenced to twenty-five years of labor in a Siberian lead mine. In the Gulags, this was virtually a death sentence. Driven to desperation by the brutality of...
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Auteur:Doerr, AnthonySommaire:From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of...
- Auteur:Doerr, AnthonySommaire:
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES-from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant...
- Auteur:Donner, RebeccaSommaire:
Born in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began secret resistance meetings in her apartment, then became a spy. When the...
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Auteur:Macintyre, BenSommaire:Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into...
- Auteur:MacInnes, HelenSommaire:
Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. Galt asks if they would start...
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Auteur:Smith, RaySommaire:Set in the small German city of Waltherrott, this novel is a madcap excursion from the 1980s back to 1848, the year of revolutions, then back to the time of the Black Death in the late 1340s. A startling comedy, 'A Night at the Opera'...
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Auteur:Makos, Adam, Alexander, LarrySommaire:In 1943 a twenty-one-year-old novice pilot found himself in the sights of an ace German fighter pilot. What happened between them would later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II. This is the true...
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Auteur:Mann, FredSommaire:Fred Mann’s incredible story traces his family’s long journey of exile from Germany through Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Jamaica and finally to a new home in Canada. A Drastic Turn of Destiny is also a lament for a brave boy who...
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Auteur:Modiano, Patrick, Frenkel, FrancoiseSommaire:"A beautiful and important book" (The Independent) in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer's Wife, this is the remarkable and prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish woman whose beloved...
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