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The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
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Clara Falkenberg earned the nickname "the Iron Fräulein" during World War II for her role operating her family's ironworks empire. Two years after the war ended she's left with nothing but a false identification card and a series of burning questions about her family's past. Returning home to take refuge with her friend, Elisa, she arrives to discover the city in ruins, and Elisa missing. Jakob, a charismatic young man working on the black market,...
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This first major novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse incorporates a theme he returned to again and again in most of his works: the fundamental duality of existence. The youthful protagonist, Emil Sinclair, however, his older friend, Max Demian, manages to both clarify and complicate Sinclair's confusion about life's conflicting values. Recounted in engaging prose, rich in sympathy and imagination, this brilliant exploration of the polarities...
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Canongate
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Crime Writers Association award winner Louise Welsh follows up her hit art world noir The Cutting Room with a slick literary suspense thriller set among the decadent domains of contemporary Berlin, Glasgow, and London. Meet William Wilson, a foundering so-called mentalist, conjurer, and above all - despite frequently being the opening act for strippers - a master performer. When his agent books him for a string of cabaret gigs in Berlin, he's hoping...
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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In this debut a Russian teenager living in Berlin dreams of taking revenge on the man who killed her mother.
Now an award-winning motion picture.
Seventeen-year-old Sascha Naimann was born in Moscow, but now lives in Berlin with her two younger siblings. She is precocious, independent, streetwise, and ever since her stepfather Vadim murdered her mother several months ago, an orphan. Unlike most of her peers, Sascha doesn't dream of escaping the...
11) The sleepwalkers
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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A high-ranking Jewish detective in Berlin in 1932, Willi Kraus finds his murder investigation of an oddly deformed and mysterious young woman made difficult by his superiors and several disturbing events.
17) Berlin at war
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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In Berlin at War, acclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse provides a magnificent and detailed portrait of everyday life at the epicenter of the Third Reich. Berlin was the stage upon which the rise and fall of the Third Reich was most visibly played out. It was the backdrop for the most lavish Nazi ceremonies, the site of Albert Speer's grandiose plans for a new "world metropolis," and the scene of the final climactic battle to defeat Nazism. Berlin was...