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"In this gripping split-time novel, Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker woman who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrenees, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Elias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart. More...
22) Linked
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"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
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"From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel of love, war, art, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings. In the dazzling glitter of 1900 Vienna, Adele Bloch-Bauer--young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish--meets painter Gustav Klimt. Wealthy in everything but freedom,...
24) Bonfire night
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A press photographer in 1936 London attends an anti-fascism protest in East London where she befriends a brilliant, Jewish medical student and is exposed to the dangers and demands of his world ahead of World War II.
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Ali Reynolds' personal life is in turmoil when two separate men show up on the scene - a serial killer and a former employee of her husband's who has just been released from a sixteen-year prison sentence. According to the courts, Mateo Vega, a one-time employee of B. Simpson, murdered his girlfriend. But Mateo knows that her real killer is still on the loose. Mateo gets a job working for B. once again, and just as he starts his new job, chaos breaks...
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Library of America volume 237
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Library of America
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©2013
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468 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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English
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"A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and-decades later-a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry...
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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First edition.
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320 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When freshman Declan Taylor hurts his pitching arm he becomes mad at the world, soon getting caught up with a group of white supremacists and turning against his Jewish former friend, Jake--but when things turn violent Declan must figure out what he actually stands for.
"After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, Declan Taylor accidentally messes up his throwing arm. Despite painful surgery and brutal physical therapy, he might never pitch...
29) The fixer
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English
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Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder....
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Carl Salzman
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[2013].
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iii, 324 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Not long after the Hurricane of 1938, New England was swept by a flood of another sort--a tide of rising Antisemitism. Morris Schlossberg, an unmarried pharmacist and amateur singer in Providence, RI, cannot stand by and watch; he infiltrates a local German Bund group and reports back to the fictional American Jews for Democracy. His double life throws unexpected challenges in his path: loyalty to family, faith and self. --Page [4] of cover.
32) Setting fires
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Scribner
Pub. Date
c2000
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301 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
33) The oath
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Random House
Pub. Date
[1973]
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[1st American ed.]
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283 p. 22 cm.
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English
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Herring Cove Road volume 1
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H&S Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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Fifth edition.
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279 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Once an amusing extrovert with a reputation as a prankster, Mr. Rosen is entering his senior years as a stoic thirty-year converted introvert who hates change, has little to no interest in people and is more than content to have his wife sit in his life's navigator seat to guide him through its changes, including their recent move to a much smaller home in a middle-class neighborhood where he lives next to a racist whose pint-sized son addresses...
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Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
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290 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"After a black hole consumes the State of Israel, similar strange events occur in major cities around the world, ushering in a time of chaos as well as miracles. It is not long before conspiracy theories take hold in various pockets of the globe: Are the Jews the victims, or are they the culprits?"--
36) The assignment
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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First edition.
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322 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Standing in opposition to a class assignment to debate Hitler's Final Solution, seniors Cade and Logan become embroiled in turmoil involving their teacher, principal, Commissioner of Education, white supremacists, and their entire community.
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