berlin (germany)

Nikolai Hoffner, a veteran detective with the Berlin police in the waning days of World War I, struggles to learn the truth when his investigation of the murders of four women is complicated by the discovery of the body of Socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, whose corpse bears similar markings as those found on the earlier victims.

Chronicles the eighteen years Albert Einstein spent in Berlin, discussing the tumultuous events of his life and how the city's history influenced Einstein's work.

Provides an account of Stopwatch/Gold, a joint Cold War operation between the CIA and Britain's Secret Intelligence Service conducted from a tunnel under the Russian sector of Berlin in an effort to gain information about the planned actions of the German Red Army.

In 1961, three teenagers from an American school in West Germany travel to Berlin to join a May Day rally, where they stumble into the middle of an international incident, forcing their parents to rescue them.

Fifteen-year-old Jenny, friends with her Jewish neighbor Rafael since they were young children, goes to great lengths to save him when the Nazis take over Berlin.

Presents an alternative history novel set in the twenty-first century about six different Jewish characters who are posing as "good Germans" in a world where the Nazis have defeated all of their World War Two enemies.

Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II. She and her little brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. The teenage Margarete was preoccupied with school, friends, boys, and sports but she was also aware of a growing air of secrecy and fear among her elders and she struggled to make sense of it all. She lost her brother to the army, treated wounded boy soldiers for the German Red Cross, and ran scared through the streets as Allied bombs decimated her city. Just when she thought the worse was over and she and her mother were on a train to Sweden, they were suddenly rerouted deep into Russia. Margarete survived the war but the wartime tragedies she experienced would haunt her for the rest of her life.

Living with his mother in a Berlin apartment house, Rico, a young boy with ADHD, enjoys playing detective games but when his friend Oskar suddenly disappears, possibly taken by a serial kidnapper, Rico determines to use his skills to find his friend.

"After World War II Germany splits into two countries--the Communist German Democratic Republic in the east and the Federal Republic of Germany in the west. Its capital of Berlin is divided as well, but many people are leaving East Berlin for the freedom of the West. In 1961 East German leaders build a wall through the city to keep its people from escaping. Will you: Consider escaping from East Berlin soon after the wall is built? Serve as an East German guard at the wall? Join in the protests against the wall? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to escape, imprisonment, or even death"--Provided by the publisher.