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"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the chAateau where she works. Their whirlwind and desperateromance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice...
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In 1968 New York City, headwaiter Charles Ward, when Berthold Werden, the Nazi officer who was both his savoir and his tormentor, walks into Cafae Marie, is forced to revisit the pain and the brief, undeniable pleasures of the life he once knew.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION LLOYD 2024
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FICTION LLOYD 2024
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A close-knit Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch.
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"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION GRODST 2023
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FICTION GRODST 2023
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2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny-and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION HOFMAN 2023
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FICTION HOFMAN 2023
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""O, it has happened little by little, as many things simply happen little by little, Mother said, and told us everything about Herr Veilchenfeld, as far as it was known to her." Germany, late 1930s. Walking into town on a hot summer evening, the elderlyprofessor of philosophy Herr Veilchenfeld encounters a group of local drunks. He is humiliated and assaulted; his hair is shorn. The police "don't interfere in such minor matters." What happens to...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ALBOM 2023
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FICTION ALBOM 2023
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ALBOM 2023
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FICTION ALBOM 2023
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4 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
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"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 goes to the station platform every day and reassures...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION RAUTIA 2022
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FICTION RAUTIA 2022
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"The haunting, gripping story of Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes during World War II, perfect for fans of Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius “A beautifully written novel and a thriller that will keep readers turning the page to find out the truth about this disgraceful chapter of Finnish history” – Harvard Review Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ALLEND 2023
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FICTION ALLEND 2023
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ALLEND 2023
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FICTION ALLEND 2023
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
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"Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about two people fighting for reconciliation over unforgivable crimes of the past. Taking over from her father and grandfather as the head of the Survivor’s Campaign, an organization whose purpose is to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, Milia Gottstein has dedicated her life to making sure the voices of Holocaust victims will never be silenced. It is...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION APELFE 2023
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FICTION APELFE 2023
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"A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy-and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave hisflourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov is drawn to Szydowce, intrigued by the stories he'd heard...
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"An epic story of love, betrayal, and art that spans decades, through the horrors of World War II to 21st century America, inspired by an actual porcelain factory in Dachau. Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history. A daughter’s search for the truth. Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each...
13) The postcard
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION BEREST 2023
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FICTION BEREST 2023
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"Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a...
14) Before the storm
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPMA 2023
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FICTION SHIPMA 2023
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In 1948 Berlin, Sara Sturm, a German woman working for the U.S. Department of Public Affairs, is dispatched to investigate a store vandalized with swastikas and helps two Jewish Holocaust survivors track down a Nazi nuclear scientist whose knowledge may determine the course of countless wars to come.
Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Kristin Hannah, and Pam Jenoff, this thrilling, high-stakes Cold War novel from a bestselling author follows one couple’s...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
MYSTERY MEEROP 2022
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MYSTERY MEEROP 2022
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"On a chilly November morning, eighty-eight-year-old Iris Blum goes missing from Azalea Court, a six-bungalow development on the grounds of a long-closed state mental hospital. Her husband, Asher Blum, was the last head psychiatrist at the hospital and iswriting a book about the treatment of mental illness. Their daughter Lexi, the neighbors, and police detective McPhee suspect Dr. Blum of being involved in Iris's disappearance. When the searches...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION AJAR 2022
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FICTION AJAR 2022
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Momo, an orphaned Arab boy, struggles to help Madame Rosa, a dying former prostitute and survivor of Auschwitz, whose Paris boarding house has sheltered other prostitutes' children.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION KELLY 2023
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FICTION KELLY 2023
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION KELLY 2023
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FICTION KELLY 2023
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION KELLY 2023
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FICTION KELLY 2023
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION KELLY 2023
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LP FICTION KELLY 2023
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"Two former female spies, bound by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II-an extraordinary, propulsive historical novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since American Sofie Anderson and Frechwoman Arlette LaRue were imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. As a pair of spies known as the Golden...
18) Beyond the wire
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION SHIPMA 2022
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FICTION SHIPMA 2022
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"In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was selected on arrival for an unthinkable job: sorting through the clothes of the deadand moving their bodies from the gas chambers to the crematoriums...Every morning, Anna marches miles to the union munitions factory where she works alongside other prisoners...she and a few other...
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Set against the backdrop of World War II, this unforgettable novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumphover the very darkest moments of war.
"For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION CORREA 2023
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FICTION CORREA 2023
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CORREA 2023
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FICTION CORREA 2023
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"Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl. Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her...