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Girls surviveHesse, Monica
Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESFox, Lauren
Summary: "Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction Fox 2021Verna, Harmony
Summary: "An historical novel set in 1914 that follows a family of German immigrants who trade city living for the harsh realities of Pennsylvania farm life. Among other challenges, anti-German sentiment spreads across America with the outbreak of World War I"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VERAlikhan, Salima
Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALIBuckley, William F. (William Frank)
Summary: Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, 1945, was the scene of a trial without precedent in history. Leading the listener into the palace is Sebastian, a young German-American whose fate is entwined with the lives and deaths of some towering figures of 20th century history, including Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler. In a gripping account of war makers who must face the consequences of their actions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCGratz, Alan
Summary: It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2019Shoemaker, Karen Gettert
Summary: "Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOJakes, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKMeissner, Susan
Summary: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MEIErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family--which includes Eva and four sons--and a singing club consisting of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDGeorge, Alex.
Summary: The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2012Martinez, Claudia Guadalupe
Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022