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Caletti, Deb

Summary: Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CAL

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAL

Forman, Gayle

Summary: When troubled twelve-year-old Alex is assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility, he forms a unique bond with a Holocaust survivor and learns lessons that change the trajectory of his life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024

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Wiesel, Elie

Summary: Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIE

Lloyd, Toby

Summary: A close-knit Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch. Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both intellectually gifted and deeply unconventional, the Rosenthals believe in the literal truth of the Old Testament and in the presence of God (and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLO

Reichardt, Marisa

Summary: Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parentsare divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION REI

Roberts, Nora

Summary: Sometimes, there is nowhere safe to hide. It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tending to customers. Then the shooters arrived. The chaos and carnage lasted only eight minutes before the killers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROB

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ROB

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Roberts 2018

Kenyon, Sherrilyn

Summary: Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks. But defying the odds is what this Gyron Force officer does best, and Bastien won't rest until he lays his betrayers in their...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEN

Gratz, Alan

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRA

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRA

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2013

Rosenfelt, David.

Summary: "It's been thirteen years since Kate Callahan's husband committed suicide after being arrested for murdering Police Chief Sean Blaylock's wife. It's a small town and memories are long, but they've all tried to put the tragedy behind them, especially Kate and Sean. But it's all brought up again when the town's quaint tradition of creating a time capsule every fifty years reveals a macabre set of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ROS

Roberts, Nora

Summary: A public shooting at a mall continues to scar survivors years later. But one person wasn't satisfied with the shockingly high death toll. And as the survivors slowly heal and rebuild, they will discover that another conspirator is lying in wait, and this time, there might be nowhere safe to hide.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROB

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROB

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Roberts 2018

Dweck, Nicole.

Summary: "Four hundred years before Oskar Schindler there was Suleiman the Magnificent, an Ottoman sultan who rescued thousands of Jews from the Inquisition. Inspired by this amazing moment in history, Nicole Dweck has imagined an enchanting family saga in the tradition of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent and Nomi Eve's The Family Orchard. In 1544, as Inquisition fires rage in Portugal, young José Mendez...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2015

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Rosner, Jennifer

Summary: "From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Hillman, Robert

Summary: A gorgeously written, tender, and wise novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant librarian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Masih, Tara Lynn

Summary: "A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MAS

Albom, Mitch

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALB

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ALB

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALB

Sager, Riley

2 holds on 5 copies

Summary: At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAG

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Sager

Sager, Riley

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume 17-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SAG

Kenyon, Sherrilyn

Summary: "A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks. But defying the odds is what this Gyron Force officer does best, and Bastien won't rest until he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Albom, Mitch

Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALB

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ALB

Kenyon, Sherrilyn

Summary: ""It's official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?" Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend or even family. But surrender isn't in him. He will fight to the bitter end. A resolve that is sorely tested when he narrowly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KEN

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: In September 1943, Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

Gillham, David R.

Summary: "What if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? The year is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years old. Having survived the concentration camps but lost her mother and sister along the way, she reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it's not easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they experienced, while Pim...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIL

Balson, Ronald H.

Summary: "The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, "the butcher of Zamosc." Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P BAL

Thoene, Bodie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

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