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Farrar Straus Giroux
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Is It Night or Day?
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This dramatic and chilling novel about one girl's escape from Hitler's Germany was inspired by the experiences of the author's mother, one of 1,200 children rescued by Americans as part of the One Thousand Children project.
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Harper
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In a Dark Wood
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In a rich tapestry of styles, fantasy and philosophical speculations, Marcel Moring leads us on a voyage through the dark heart of the 20th century and through a vivid exploration of loss and guilt.
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Penguin Books
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Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
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Drawing on an unprecedented variety of sources, Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed, maintained and ultimately lost their European empire and offers a chilling vision of the world Hitler would have made had he won the war.
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35.00
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Dial Press
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation.
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35.00
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Penguin Global
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Gratitude: A Novel
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"Gratitude" tells the story of that period, through the eyes of the wealthy Beck family, whose lives and loves are saved and lost.
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35.00
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Anchor Books
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The Game of Opposites
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In an unnamed country at the end of a world war, Paul Miller escapes from a labor camp, collapsing after a few hundred feet. "The Game of Opposites" is a universal tale of good and evil, and a stunning evocation of the capability for both within us all.
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35.00
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Jewish Publication Society of America
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From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books
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This oversized, full-color volume demonstrates how they brought a uniquely Jewish perspective to the comics industry as a whole.
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35.00
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Candlewick Press (MA)
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Free?: Stories Celebrating Human Rights
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What does it mean to be free? Top authors donate their talents to explore the question in a compelling collection to benefit Amnesty International.
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35.00
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National Geographic Society
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Every Human Has Rights: A Photographic Declaration for Kids
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"Every Human Has Rights" offers kids an accessibly written list of these rights, commentary - much of it deeply emotional - by other kids and richly evocative photography illustrating each right.
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35.00
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Scholastic Press
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Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust
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At just 15, Elly, her mother and brother were taken from their Romanian town to the Jewish concentration camp at Auschwitz. Upon their arrival, a soldier waved Elly to the right; her mother and brother to the left. She never saw her family alive again.
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35.00
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Front Street
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The Dog in the Wood
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Despite the boy's heroic efforts, the story ends with one of the war's ambiguities: that Lech and Gertrude may not return home.
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35.00
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Black Cat
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The Disappeared
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A searing, fiercely beautiful love story, "The Disappeared" traces one woman's three-decades-long journey from the peaceful streets of Montreal to the war-torn villages of Cambodia.
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35.00
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Vintage Books USA
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Dimanche and Other Stories
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Written between 1934 and 1942, these 10 stories by the author of "Suite Francaise" mine the same terrain as her best-selling novels. Nemirovsky achieves her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity.
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35.00
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Clarion Books
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The Day of the Pelican
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Paterson delivers a touching and timely novel about a Kosovo family's journey to freedom. They are brought to America by a church group and begin a new life in a small Vermont town. But the events of 9/11 bring more challenges for this Muslim family.
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35.00
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account
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Here presented with a foreword by Debórah Dwork and translated for the first time into English, "Criminal Case 40/61" provides the reader with an unsettling portrait not only of Adolf Eichmann's character but also of technological precision and expertise.
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35.00
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Drawn & Quarterly
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City of Smoke
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Originally serialized in the comic book "Berlin," in issues 9 through 16.
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35.00
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Feiwel & Friends
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Bystander
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A 7th-grade boy must choose between being a witness to bullying, or possibly becoming a victim.
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35.00
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Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Bullies Never Win
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Brenda teases Jessica about her homework and her skinny legs. It worries Jessica so much, she can't even sleep! Can Jessica stop worrying and stand up to Brenda?
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35.00
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Bellevue Literary Press
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Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb
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Now in paperback: Werner Heisenberg's life reconsidered for the 21st century by the world's leading English-language authority.
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35.00
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Drawn & Quarterly
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Berlin: Book One
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The first serialized installment in a critically acclaimed graphic novel trilogy spanning the brilliant and dangerous years of the Weimar Republic of Germany.
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35.00
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Viking Children's Books
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Ashes
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Thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramm's favorite pastime is reading. With Adolf Hitler slowly but unstoppably rising to power, Gaby turns to her books for comfort.
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35.00
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Zondervan
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As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda
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Can a country known for its radical brutality become a country known for an even more radical forgiveness?
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35.00
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Three Rivers Press (CA)
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World But Fueled the Rise of Hitler
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Tragic genius, cutting-edge science and the discovery that changed billions of lives – including your own.
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35.00
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HarperCollins
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After the Train
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The National Book Award-winning author of "Homeless Bird" weaves an important, atmospheric story about a young German boy who discovers a troubling mystery that sheds light on his town's dark nature, and casts doubts on his parents stories about the war.
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35.00
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Metropolitan Books
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia
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Drawing on a vast collection of interviews and archives, “The Whisperers” re-creates the anguish of family members turned against one another — of the paranoia, alienation and treachery that poisoned private life in Russia for generations.
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42.00
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