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Alias Anna : A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood, Greg Dawson EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna's son). She wouldn't be Zhanna. She'd use an alias. A for Anna. A for alive. When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Jewish girl, must leave behind her friends, her freedom, and her promising musical future at the world's top conservatory. With no time to say goodbye, Zhanna, her sister Frina, and their... continue
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque EN
GermanyDescription:
One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth, they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
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All Russians Love Birch Trees : A Novel by Olga Grjasnova EN
Country: Asia / 
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Description:
An award-winning debut novel about a quirky immigrant’s journey through a multicultural, post-nationalist landscape Set in Frankfurt, All Russians Love Birch Trees follows a young immigrant named Masha. Fluent in five languages and able to get by in several others, Masha lives with her boyfriend, Elias. Her best friends are Muslims struggling to obtain residence permits, and her parents rarely leave the house except to compare gas prices. Masha has nearly completed her studies to become an interpreter, when suddenly Elias is hospitalized after a serious soccer injury and dies, forcing her to q... continue
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Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada EN
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THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan Furst Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a gripping wartime thriller following one ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels re... continue
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Anna by Mia Oberländer FR
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In the sleepy German countryside live the Annas, cursed to be too tall for their small town. Laughably long-limbed and gangly, their bodies refuse to conform with societal norms of delicate femininity, and the trauma of being different ripples across generations. And yet, there may be a blessing to their burden; like the mighty mountains surrounding their town, they find that there is resilience and strength to be gained from their heightened perspective. Drawn with delightful exaggeration and formal inventiveness, Anna is a tongue-in-cheek, modern-day fairy tale about being "too big"... continue
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Anne Franks dagbok by Anne Frank, Ari Folman, David Polonsky NO
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Kjære Kitty, jeg håper å kunne betro deg alt, slik jeg aldri før har kunnet med noen, og jeg håper du vil være til god støtte for meg
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In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before.
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Resumen del editor: "Austerlitz, el último gran libro del más original narrador de nuestro tiempo, es la historia de un hombre al que, de niño, roban patria, idioma y nombre, y no puede sentirse ya en casa en este mundo. En la oscura nave de la estación de Amberes había un hombre joven, rubio, con pesadas botas de excursionista y una vieja mochila, ocupado en tomar notas y hacer dibujos en un cuaderno. El narrador lo observa fascinado, y comienza una relación que transcurre durante decenios y cautiva cada vez más a quien la narra. Jacques Austerlitz se llama el enigmático extranjero y, aunque ... continue
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Bambert's Book of Missing Stories by Reinhardt Jung EN
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A recluse, having written stories peopled with beloved characters, releases them into the world on hot-air balloons, hoping they will find life and return to him.