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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Maria and her friend Nathan flee their Nazi-occupied Ukrainian town, hoping to earn wages and avoid starvation as foreign workers in Austria, but they are quickly separated and Maria waits out the war as a farm laborer.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
“A gorgeous and thrilling novel… Perfect for book clubs and fans of The Nightingale.” –PopSugar
A historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families. A heart-breaking, heart-warming read for fans of The Women in the Castle, Lilac...
A historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families. A heart-breaking, heart-warming read for fans of The Women in the Castle, Lilac...
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Maestoso Petra, a Lipizzaner stallion, trains to perform in the Spanish Riding School and is hidden away during the German occupation of Austria in World War II. Includes facts about Lipizzaner horses and the world-famous Spanish Riding School.
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""Dear Madam - You are surely informed about the situation of all Jews in Central Europe and this letter will not astonish you." In August 1939, just days before World War II broke out in Europe, a Jewish man in Vienna named Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to a stranger in America who shared his last name. "By pure chance I got your address . . . I beg you instantly to send for me and my wife..." Decades later, journalist Faris Cassell stumbled...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"February 20, 1933: on an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter, a meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi dignitaries is being held in secret in the plush lounges of the Reichstag. They are there to "stump up" funding for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its fearsome Chancellor. This inaugural scene sets the tone of consent which will lead to the worst possible repercussions. March 12,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
1938, Austria. A powerful story of betrayal, forbidden love, and incredible courage, about three sisters who risk everything--even their own lives--to save the people and country they love from the unimaginable evil of Nazi rule. Johanna Eder and her sisters Birgit and Lotte have always lived quiet lives, working in their father's clockmaking shop and helping their mother in the house. But they find it impossible to ignore the changes in the world...