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Liam Devlin thrillers volume 1
Language
English
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Combines fact and speculation in a fictionalized reconstruction of the events leading up to and including the November 1943 mission of a small force of German paratroopers landed in Britain to capture Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
In a Cold War spy story set in 1989 Berlin, an American woman married to an East German must confront the truth behind his mysterious disappearance when she discovers he was a spy reporting back to an East German counterintelligence officer known as the Matchmaker. Berlin, 1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations...
24) Winter work
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, about a Stasi officer investigating the murder of a colleague who is helped by Claire Saylor. Emil Grimm, a Stasi colonel, has decamped to his dacha in the woods outside of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a walk one morning, he discovers the body of a fellow intelligence officer with whom he was involved in a clandestine mission. Now Emil is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Mimi, Papa, and their grandchildren, Christina and Grant are uber-excited to visit the famouse Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany!. They call it the "Crystal Castle." The excitement begins as soon as the Mystery Girl lands and Grant finds a map -- but where does it lead??? Follow the kids on their amazing adventure through cool underground caves, towering turrets, and the sights, sounds and tastes (yummm!) of Oktoberfest!
27) Little Red Cap
Pub. Date
[2006], ©1987
Language
English
Description
A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her sick grandmother.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people.
32) The frog prince
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
As payment for retrieving the princess's ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
"A picture is worth a thousand words but the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. At first glance it appears to be the famous portrait of Frau Schliemann adorned in the gold of Troy. But closer study reveals the picture to be contemporary -- which is odd since Vicky knows the Trojan gold vanished sometime around the end of World War Two. And if she needed further proof that something was...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1961, a wall of barbed wire goes up quickly in the dead of night, officially dividing Berlin. Aware of the many whose families have been divided. Luisa joins a secret spy network, risking her life to help East Germans escape across Berlin Wall and into the West. Bob Inama, a soldier in the US Army, is stationed in West Germany. He's glad to be fluent in German, especially after meeting Luisa Voigt at a church social. As they spend...
36) The interim
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This monumental novel about an anguished East German writer interrogates with bitter wit the detritus of late twentieth-century life: alcoholism, car culture, consumerism, God, love, statelessness, and above all else, the writer's place in a "century of lies.""--
From a writer whose work is considered "among the most significant prose and poetry written not just in the GDR but in all of postwar Germany" (Joshua Cohen), a digressive masterwork in...
37) Rapunzel
Author
Pub. Date
©1989
Language
English
Description
A beautiful girl with extraordinarily long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
39) Iron John
Author
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
With help of Iron John, the wild man of the forest who is under a curse, a young prince makes his way in the world and finds his true love.
40) The Glassblower
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014, 2003
Language
English
Description
"In the village of Lauscha in Germany, things have been done the same way for centuries. The men blow the glass, and the women decorate and pack it. But when glassblower Joost Steinmann passes away unexpectedly one September night, his three daughters must learn to fend for themselves. While feisty Johanna takes a practical approach to looking for work, Ruth follows her heart, aiming to catch the eye of a handsome young villager. But it is dreamy,...
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