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1) Shadows reel
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English
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A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Joe is called out for a moose poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally tortured and murdered. At the same time, Marybeth opens an unmarked package at the library where she works and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official. Who left it there? And why? She learns that during World War II, several...
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Isabel Dalhousie ; 14
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English
Description
"Our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry. Isabel accepts an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but soon finds herself swept up in an all-too-familiar dilemma. David is the grandson of a Scottish clan chief and is supportive of Scottish nationalism. But his fervent beliefs...
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American century ; S-23
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English
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In this harrowing tale of class warfare that merges science fiction and fantasy, a powerful state organization known as "The Iron Heel" is determined to crush the working class -- at any cost.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Protecting her beloved students from the devastating world outside of their 1934 Berlin classroom, Thekla Köppen sacrifices some of her personal freedoms to retain her teaching position until activities within Hitler's early regime test her moral courage.
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English
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Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.
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Language
English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series comes a tantalizing standalone novel about a mother and daughter who stumble upon an underground Nazi cell in Los Angeles during the early days of World War II-and find the courage to go undercover. June 1940. France has fallen to the Nazis, Britain is next-but to many Americans, the war is still something happening "over there." Veronica Grace has just graduated from college; she...
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A naïve young woman faces a decision so important it will change her life forever. At the height of the Second World War, Caitlin Van Fleet moves to Washington, D.C., to become a "government girl" in the office of pro-German Congressman Stowe. Young and impressionable, she enters into a passionate love affair with the congressman's aide, Betty Sinclair. But their relationship, while intense, is short-lived: When Caitlin befriends Joe Rose, an undercover...
14) Barbary shore
Author
Publisher
Rinehart Co
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Lovett, a World War II veteran with disabilities, about intrigues surrounding McLeod, one of his Brooklyn boarding house neighbors, who is a former communist in this Cold War era setting, and his fellow boarders, one of whom is tailing McLeod.
15) Metello: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
"First novel of the trilogy An Italian story, which embraces an arc of events ranging from the unification of Italy to the post-war period, Metello was published in 1955, followed by Lo Scialo in 1960 and by Allegoria and derision in 1966. Metello recalls the years 1875 -1902, when the working class, in the light of the new socialist doctrines, joins the general ferment of retailers..."--Goodreads
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Series
Publisher
Walter
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The story concerns a murderer, Franz Biberkopf, fresh from prison. When his friend murders the prostitute on whom Biberkopf has been relying as an anchor, he realizes that he will be unable to extricate himself from the underworld into which he has sunk. He must deal with misery, lack of opportunities, crime and the imminent ascendency of Nazism. During his struggle to survive against all odds, life rewards him with an unsuspected surprise but his...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
This novel by the celebrated French actress, published here posthumously, follows the fortunes of some Jewish emigre families. Set in Paris between the world wars, her story is of people who find ways to survive both the memories of past persecution in Eastern Europe and the threats of Nazism on the rise in France. Numerous characters, most connected with the garment and theater industries, are brought in, but only Nicole, the nouveau riche neurotic...
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Publisher
OPUS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"PhDeath" is a fast-paced thriller set in a major university in a major city on a square. The faculty finds itself in deadly intellectual combat with the anonymous Puzzler. Along with teams of U.S. Military Intelligence and the city's top detective and aided by the Puzzle Master of The New York Times, their collective brains are no match for the Puzzler's perverse talents.--
In a major university in a major city, the faculty finds itself in deadly...
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Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Robert Tressell's groundbreaking socialist novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men in the fictional town of Mugsborough, and socialist journeyman-prophet Frank Owen who attempts to convince his fellow workers that capitalism is the real source of the poverty all around them. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system, and support for a socialist society in which work is...
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