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In the new world

a family in two centuries
2015
Tells the story of Robert, Margarete and their children Johannes and Dorothea, who emigrate from Germany to the United States in 1850, landing in New Orleans and joining a wagon train headed west to Nebraska, the family establishes a farm outside Omaha, where almost 150 years later their descendants still live. Includes maps and illustrations.

The watcher

2014
Kidnapped by her own mother, a Nazi spy, teenaged Wendy is transported from Maine to wartime Berlin, where she secretly supports the resistance movement and learns a family secret.

My brother's secret

2015
In 1941, twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and he begins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group who opposes the Nazis.

Little Red Riding Hood

2013
A little girl meets a wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

Hitler

2002
A biography of Adolf Hitler, chronicling his life from his early struggles as an obscure Austrian artist, and tracing his rise to power as leader of the Nazi party and the German nation, and describing his ambitions that brought the entire world into a military conflict.

The notorious Pagan Jones

One night in 1960, teen actress Pagan Jones gets behind the wheel drunk and drives her car off a cliff, killing her father and sister. Now at a reformatory for girls, Pagan receives a suspicious offer to do a comedy directed in West Berlin. Accompanied by a mysterious guardian, Pagan heads to Berlin and finds herself in over her head in espionage.

Conspiracy of blood and smoke

Gretchen Muller and her family were family friends of Adolph Hitler before he became a monster. After escaping Germany, Gretchen developed three rules for staying alive--blend in with her surroundings, never reveal her true identity, and never, under any circumstances, go back to Germany. However, when her new life is threatened, she must break rule three and risk everything to go back home.

Angela Merkel

first woman chancellor of Germany
2015
A biography of German chancellor Angela Merkel, discussing her early life in East Germany, her political awakening, and her rise to power.

Magic comes in its time

1993
Jonathan, an adopted child with no siblings, hopes that the arrival of storks to his German neighborhood will signal the arrival of a new baby brother.

The logic of evil

the social origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933
1996
A sociological examination of Nazi Party members that studies who joined the Nazi Party between 1925 and 1933 and why they did; asserts that the major reason for Nazi membership was material self-interest.

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