Lutes, Jason
Summary: "Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens--Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters' lives into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUTContents: Der Prokurator = The attorney / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Unverhofftes Wiedersehen = An unexpected reunion / Johann Peter Hebel -- Das Erdbeben in Chili = The earthquake in Chile / Heinrich von Kleist -- Don Juan / Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann -- Bergkristall = Rock crystal / Adalbert Stifter -- Das Tanzlegendchen = The little legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller -- Eine Frau in meinen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC DEULutes, Jason.
Summary: Covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1999, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a growing shadow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2001
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUTIsherwood, Christopher
Summary: Presents two related novels, "The Last of Mr. Norris," published in 1935, and "Goodbye to Berlin," published in 1939; following the exploits of Mr. Norris, an old debauchee who is caught in the struggle between the Nazis and the Communists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 2008
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Summary: "Bavaria, 1776. When Albrecht Durer the Much Much Younger's Frog Prints go missing, he knows exactly where to turn for help. Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now thirty-five and still living with her gluttonous brother Hans, is the country's most famous private investigator, and she leaps at the opportunity to travel to cosmopolitan Nuremberg to take on the case. But amid the hubbub of the city's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brackston 2015Binder, L. Annette
Summary: "In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right-he is thin,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BINErpenbeck, Jenny
Summary: "Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos--an unforgettably compelling masterpiece tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023