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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Bestselling author Marie Benedict reveals the story of a brilliant woman scientist only remembered for her beauty.
Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
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11 sound discs (21 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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West Texas's Weldon Holland's colorful, intrigue-filled life takes him from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde as a teenager to the trenches of WWII and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana Coast. He will need all of his experience and skill to save his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime American and threaten to destroy them all.
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Jerusalem Road volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
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373 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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English
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""After moving to Jerusalem, Aya expects to be bored in her role as wife to a Torah student but finds herself fascinated by her husband's studies. And when her brother Sha'ul makes a life-altering decision, she is faced with a troubling question: How can she remain true to all she's been taught since infancy and still love her blasphemous brother?"--
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English
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No longer famous, journalist Cannie Shapiro writes science fiction under a pen name while raising her teenage daughter, and considers her husband Peter's request to have Cannie's flamboyant sister provide surrogate services so that they can have a second child.
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English
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In the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying...
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Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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As France buckles under the Nazi regime, budding photographer Rachel Cohen must change her name, go into hiding, and bear witness to the atrocities of World War II.
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large Print edition.
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325 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Levi, a fox terrier, lives with his family in a grand townhouse in Berlin. Each day he walks through the neighborhood and people greet him by name. But in 1938, Berlin is no longer safe for Levi or the Liliencrons, his Jewish owners. They rename him Sirius to protect him. When Nazi troops storm the city, Sirius alerts the family and they manage to flee to California. In his new home, Carl Liliencron becomes a chauffeur and Sirius -- now named Hercules...
11) The bronze bow
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A young Jewish rebel is filled with hatred for the Romans and a desire to avenge his parents' deaths until Jesus teaches him love and understanding of others.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....