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  1. Gebrauchtes Glück
    Roman
    Author: Roy, Gabrielle
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Aufbau Verlag, Berlin

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  2. Sachiko
    a novel
    Author: Endō, Shūsaku
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    "In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country. In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Shūhei, are free to play with American children in their neighborhood. But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression. Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to his homeland. Endō alternates scenes between Nagasaki-where the growing love between Sachiko and Shūhei is imperiled by mounting persecution-and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Shūhei's dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a sin. With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance, Endō depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable. Endō's compassion for his characters, reflecting their struggles to find and share love for others, makes Sachiko one of his most moving novels"-- 1. His Arrival -- 2. Sachiko -- 3. A Spy -- 4. A Minor Secret -- 5. Dark Surging Waves -- 6. The Place of Death -- 7. The Student Dormitory -- 8. A Conversation About Love -- 9. Anguish -- 10. Escape -- 11. Girlish Innocence -- 12. A Summer Ablaze -- 13. The Death of Kolbe -- 14. Step by Step -- 15. That Day -- 16. A Decision -- 17. As Though There Were No War -- 18. Letters from Shūhei -- 19. Dark Days -- 20. 1944 -- 21. And Sachiko . . . -- 22. Requiem -- 23. August -- 24. Aftermath.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Gessel, Van C. (ÜbersetzerIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0231552106; 9780231552103
    Series: Weatherhead books on Asia
    Subjects: Women; Christians; FICTION / Historical / World War II; FICTION / Literary
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Translated from the Japanese
  3. Properties of thirst
    a novel
    Author: Wiggins, Marianne
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Simon & Schuster, New York

    Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the... more

     

    Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife, Lou, raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. Soon, Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy. Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they've loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese American internment camp next to the ranch, Rocky realizes that the land faces even bigger threats than the LA watermen he's battled for years. Complicating matters is the fact that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to build the camp, who only begins to understand the horror of his task after it may be too late, becomes infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes family. Properties of Thirst is a novel that is both universal and intimate. It is the story of a changing American landscape and an examination of one of the darkest periods in this country's past, told through the stories of the individual loves and losses that weave together to form the fabric of our shared history. Ultimately, it is an unflinching distillation of our nation's essence--and a celebration of the bonds of love and family that persist against all odds

     
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  4. The sea gate
    Author: Johnson, Jane
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Blackstone Publishing, [Ashland]

    After the death of her mother, Rebecca finds a letter that will change her life forever: a desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home more

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    Stadtbibliothek Bremen, Zentralbibliothek
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    After the death of her mother, Rebecca finds a letter that will change her life forever: a desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home

     
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  5. Long Way Home
    Author: Austin, Lynn
    Published: 2022; ©2022
    Publisher:  Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, IL

    Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience that he can barely function. When he attempts the... more

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    Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience that he can barely function. When he attempts the unthinkable and his parents check him into the VA hospital, Peggy determines to help the Barnetts unravel what might have happened to send their son over the edge, starting by contacting Jimmy's war buddies and trying to identify the mysterious woman in the photo they find in Jimmy's belongings. Seven years earlier, sensing the rising tide against her people, Gisela Wolff and her family flee Germany aboard the passenger ship St. Louis, bound for Havana, Cuba. Gisela meets Sam Shapiro, the love of her life, on board, but the ship is eventually denied safe harbor and sent back to Europe. This begins Gisela's perilous journey of exile and survival, made possible only by the kindness and courage of a series of strangers she meets along the way, including one man who will change the course of her life

     
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  6. All our shimmering skies
    Author: Dalton, Trent
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  the borough press, London

    "Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer... more

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    "Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer whom she believes cursed her family. Accompanying her are the most unlikely traveling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a Japanese fighter pilot who's abandoned his post. With messages from the skies above to guide them towards treasure, but foes close on their trail, the trio will encounter the beauty and vastness of the Northern Territory and survive in ways they never thought possible" --

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780063092754; 0063092751
    Subjects: Family violence; Blessing and cursing; World War, 1939-1945; Survival; Orphans; Friendship; FICTION / Historical / World War II; FICTION / World Literature / Australia; FICTION / Coming of Age; Survival; Friendship; Family violence; Blessing and cursing; Orphans; Fiction; Historical fiction; Novels; Romans
    Scope: 452 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Auf dem Umschlag: 'clever, thrilling, unputdownable' Sydney Morning Herald ; from the internationally bestselling author of boy shallows universe

    "Originally published in Australia in 2020 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited."--Title page verso
  7. The diamond eye
    a novel
    Author: Quinn, Kate
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  WM, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York

    "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as... more

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    "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper--a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC--until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila's past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life. Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever"--

     
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  8. After the party
    Author: Connolly, Cressida
    Published: May 2019
    Publisher:  Pegasus Books, New York

    Moving into her sister's country house in 1938 England after years abroad, Phyllis becomes entangled in a circle of idealistic new friends and their views about a charismatic new leader before a lapse in judgment changes the course of her life more

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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
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    Moving into her sister's country house in 1938 England after years abroad, Phyllis becomes entangled in a circle of idealistic new friends and their views about a charismatic new leader before a lapse in judgment changes the course of her life

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781643131269; 1643131265
    Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover edition
    Subjects: Life change events; Women prisoners; Sisters; Life change events; Sisters; Women prisoners; FICTION / Historical / World War II; Great Britain; Fiction; History; Historical fiction
    Scope: 261 Seiten, 24 cm
  9. The book of lost names
    Author: Harmel, Kristin
    Published: July 2020
    Publisher:  Gallery Books, New York

    "Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes... more

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    Stadtbibliothek Bremen, Zentralbibliothek
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    "Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin's Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don't know where it came from--or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer--but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war? As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears."

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781982131890
    Other identifier:
    9781982131890
    Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition
    Series: Array
    Subjects: Women librarians; Photographs; Code and cipher stories; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Jews; FICTION / Historical / World War II; FICTION / Women; FICTION / War & Military; Code and cipher stories; Jews; Photographs; Underground movements, War; Women librarians; Fiction; History; War stories; Historical fiction; War fiction
    Scope: 388 pages, 24 cm
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  10. Eternal
    a novel
    Author: Scottoline, Lisa
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Penguin Audio, New York, NY

    An aspiring writer, an athlete from a professional cyclist family, and a mathematics prodigy find their bond tested by a love triangle and the spread of anti-Semitism and fascism in 1937 Italy more

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    An aspiring writer, an athlete from a professional cyclist family, and a mathematics prodigy find their bond tested by a love triangle and the spread of anti-Semitism and fascism in 1937 Italy

     
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  11. Mitz
    the marmoset of Bloomsbury
    Author: Nunez, Sigrid
    Published: [2019]; © 2019 Vorwort
    Publisher:  Soft Skull, New York

    By 2018 National Book Award-winning author Sigrid Nunez, Mitz is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, as refracted through their small, sickly, pampered, affectionate pet marmoset, Mitz more

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    Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Medien- und Informationszentrum, Universitätsbibliothek
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    By 2018 National Book Award-winning author Sigrid Nunez, Mitz is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, as refracted through their small, sickly, pampered, affectionate pet marmoset, Mitz

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Cameron, Peter (VerfasserIn eines Nachworts); Nicolson, Nigel (VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781593765828; 1593765827
    Edition: New Edition
    Subjects: Pet owners; Mitz (Monkey); Marmosets; Human-animal relationships; FICTION / Animals; FICTION / Biographical; FICTION / Historical / World War II; FICTION / Literary; Human-animal relationships; Marmosets; Mitz (Monkey); Pet owners; Fiction; Biographical fiction; Historical fiction
    Other subjects: Woolf, Leonard (1880-1969); Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); Woolf, Leonard; Woolf, Virginia
    Scope: 157 pages
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    New Edition with an afterword by Peter Cameron and a never-before-published letter about Mitz by Nigel Nicholson
  12. The rose code
    a novel
    Author: Quinn, Kate
    Published: 2021; ©2021
    Publisher:  William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY

    Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip "1940. As England... more

     

    Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip "1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Osla puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Mab works the legendary codebreaking machines and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Beth's shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and she becomes one of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, the three women are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter-- the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum"--adapted from jacket

     
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