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"'Bloom where you're planted,' is the advice Christine Bölz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books--and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations....
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"Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or--for a chance at survival--to join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl Müller arrives...
3) Deviation
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First published in Italy in 1979, Luce D'Eramo's Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation into a complex and intricately structured work of fiction, which has claims to standing among the greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century. Lucia is a young Italian girl from a bourgeois fascist family. In the early 1940s, when she first hears about the atrocities...
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Germany, 1939: When Matilda's childhood sweetheart Hans is in danger, she doesn't hesitate to hide him in her attic. Protecting him from her parents and the soldiers downstairs, she smuggles him food and communicates in whispers. For months, they exist by candlelight. But how long can they survive? America, 2018: Grace opens a mustard-yellow envelope, and her world unravels. She has inherited a bookstore in the small town of Dachau from a grandmother...
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Dyvno, yak zminyuyetʹsya spryynyattya, koly z'yavlyayetʹsya nadiya...» Berezenʹ 1945-ho. Kontstabir Mellern vvazhayetʹsya duzhe humannym: tut nemaye hazovykh kamer. Ale shchodenno smertʹ vid holodu, znushchanʹ, khvorob zabyraye sotni tykh, u koho zamistʹ imen -- lyshe nomer. Vidchaydushne peredchuttya skoroho zvilʹnennya ob'yednuye zmuchenykh meshkantsiv Maloho taboru. Vyzhyty povynen khoch khtosʹ. Aby ne zabuty. Aby rozpovisty pravdu. Aby...
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