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English
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The son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, Adam Arnring grows up in turn-of-the-century America, determined to shape his own destiny, and heads west to build what is to become one of the country's great retail companies, in a richly textured novel spanning three generations and the history of twentieth-century America.
Author
Series
Margot's secret volume 2
Publisher
[Roberta Kagan Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
47) The Pact
Author
Series
The Blood Sisters volume Book 1
Publisher
Roberta Kagan
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Austria 1929 When three little girls--Anna, Bernie, and Elica--make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them. Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As they get older, their social differences become all too real. With infectious Jew-hate-laden rhetoric from Nazi Germany spreading into Austria, it is only a matter of time...
48) Once
Author
Series
Once series volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
49) Black radishes
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Gustave, having been forced to move from Paris to the countryside after his parents decided it was not safe for Jews to live in the city during World War II, meets a Catholic girl named Nicole, whose family is part of the French Resistance, and together they devise a plan to rescue his friend and family members from the Nazi occupied territory.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro the Father of Impressionism"--
52) Here I am
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, "Abraham!" to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, "Here I am." Later, when Isaac calls out, "My father!" to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, "Here I am." How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"For readers of The Nightingale and, an exquisitely moving novel about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City. On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor, son of two world-famous naturalists--escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling into the unfamiliar rhythms of upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight-knit group of...
54) Broken ice
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Series
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English
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"Nils Shapiro has been hired to find missing Linnea Engstrom, a teenager from the small northern hockey town of Warroad, MN. Most of Warroad is in Minneapolis for the state high school hockey tournament, and Linnea never returned from last night's game. Linnea's friend Haley Housch is also missing--and soon found dead. Shot through the arm with an arrow at the Haley Housch crime scene, only the quick work of medical examiner Char Northagen saves Nil's...
55) Los ni�nos de la estrella amarilla: la esperanza encontrada en le chambon-sur-lignon : una novela
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espa�nol
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"Jacob y Moises Stein viven con su tIa Judit en Par�is, hasta que en agosto de 1942 se desata la gran redada contra los judIos extranjeros. Sus padres, conocidos dramaturgos alemanes, est�an ocultos en la Francia libra, pero, antes des que su t�ia logre enviarles al sur, los gendarmes los detienen y los llevan al Vel�odromo de Invierno, donde m�as de cuatro mil ni�nos, cinco mil mujeres y tres mil hombres tuvieron que subsistir sin comida...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
They are your neighbor and the person who delivers your mail. They teach your children and build your homes. Every day you see them but do not notice them, that is not until they are needed. Only when disasters strike, whether it be natural or man made do they become something quite different, something more than a fellow citizen. Throughout our nation's history they have been called many things; the militia, the home guard, the National Guard. But...
57) House of gold
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Language
English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I. Vienna, 1911. Twenty-one-year-old Greta Goldbaum has always hungered after what's forbidden: secret university lectures, unseemly trumpet lessons, and most of all, the freedom to choose her life's path. ...