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"The New York Times bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis—until a secret from her past threatens everything. After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe,...
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"Tras haber sido robada a su acomodada familia alemana y haber sido criada en la implacable naturaleza de Europa del Este, la joven Yona se encuentra sola en 1941 tras la muerte de su secuestradora. Sin embargo, su solitaria existencia se ve interrumpida cuando se cruza con un grupo de judíos que huyen del terror nazi. Ella se sorprende al descubrir lo que está sucediendo en el mundo, por lo que se compromete a enseñarle al grupo todo lo que sabe...
25) Embers
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In a secluded woodland castle, an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but whom he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General's beautiful long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a...
33) Tickety tock
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Schmuel the tailor rushes through his life, not really doing what he wants to until a magic clock gives him the time he needs.
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"Up-timer Morris Roth and his Grand Army of the Sunrise stand at a crossroads. Military success against the Polish-Lithuanian magnates has all but guaranteed a continued push east into Ruthenian lands. There, Roth hopes to further his Anaconda Project so that tens of thousands of Jews are not slaughtered in what's to become known as the Chmielnicki Pogrom of 1648. An envoy from Transylvania arrives with a promising offer from its prince, who wishes...
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Professor Erik Keller's papers contain notes on his nuclear research of more than 20 years. They were left behind when, in the early 1980s, the professor is trying to defect from Poland to the West. In Vienna, the last stop before the final destination, the professor was seriously injured and his wife killed. Now MI6 has devised a plan to get the Keller papers and bring them to London. Sir Alex Campbell is in charge-- but he has a private interest...
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"An American boy and a warlord's engaged daughter have disappeared--together--in an Easter European border country. Only one man can find them in time to prevent an international meltdown--Chet Stryker. But Chet is taken aback when he realizes the boy is the nephew of Mae Lund, Chet's former flame. When Mae insists on rescuing her relative herself, Chet knows he has to protect her from the enemy on their trail. Yet can he protect himself from falling...
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"On being expelled from Paradise, young Samuel Abba pull a crafty trick, managing to arrive on earth with his memory intact. He quickly begins regaling the humans around him with mischievous stories of a Paradise far from their expectations; a world of drunken angels, lewd patriarchs, and the same divisions and temptations that shape the human world. The Book of Paradise is a comic masterpiece, and the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers....
39) Eleven-inch
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What does it take to succeed as a queer teenage Eastern European sex worker in the 1990s? Eleven inches and a ruthless attitude. Western Europe, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Two queer teens from Eastern Europe journey to Vienna, then Zurich, in search of a better life as sex workers. They couldn't be more different from each other. Milan, aka Dianka, a dreamy, passive naïf from Slovakia, drifts haplessly from one abusive sugar daddy...
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"Lithuanian Lullaby follows the lives of six people as they manage the unprecedented world events in the decade between 1987 and 1997. With his country collapsing, a Soviet conscript in Afghanistan devotes his life to undermining the very country he is meant to serve. A Hungarian teenager cuts through a border fence in search of a better life; only to find herself indebted and robbed in London. In his perennial search for adventure and romance, an...
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