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Germ

by Robert Liparulo

Published: 2007-08-07

Paperback: 500 pages

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If you breathe...It will find you.The list of 10,000 names was created for maximum devastation. Business leaders, housewives, politicians, celebrities, janitors, children. None of them is aware of what is about to happen--but all will be part of the most frightening brand of warfare the w...

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German Boy

by Wolfgang W E Samuel

Published: 2002-04-18

Paperback: 448 pages

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As the third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans fled the advancing Russians troops. Among them, a little boy and his family found themselves in war-torn Strasbourg before being forced into a disease-ridden refugee camp. The true story of their fight for survival, this book documents the young...

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The German Bride: A Novel

by Joanna Hershon

Published: 2009-03-24

Paperback: 336 pages

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Berlin, 1861. Eva Frank, a sixteen-year-old Jewess, has her portrait painted, which leads to an indiscretion that has devastating consequences. Desperate to escape a painful situation, Eva marries Abraham Shein, an ambitious merchant who has returned home to Germany for the first time in a...

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German Enchantment: Dearest Enemy/Where Angels Camp/The Nuremberg Angel/Once a Stranger (Inspirational Romance Collection)

by Pamela Griffin, Dianne Christner, Irene B. Brand, Gail Gaymer Martin

Published: 2002-02-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins - and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to it's rhythms. Christian, a knight of honorable intentions, has met his "fair lady," but her family holds an opposing allegiance...

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A German Life - Against all odds, change is possible ( A german Life - Biography) German Jewish history, German Life, A

by Bernd Wollschlaeger M.D.

Published: 2007-09-19

Paperback: 226 pages

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- A german family torn between faith, family and religion - A highly decorated WW II German tank commander - A Young man seeking the truth and his spiritual orientation - The relationship of father and son entwined in German-Jewish history - Religious conversation, exile and the dissolution of a family....

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German Shepherds For Dummies

by D. Caroline Coile

Published: 2000-09-15

Paperback: 288 pages

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Everybody thinks they know the German Shepherd. Many of us grew up with Rin Tin Tin, or we saw German Shepherds in nightly news reports breaking up riots, or we saw them in neighbors? backyards protecting children. But that only scratches the surface of one of the most fascinating and conf...

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Germinal (Oxford World's Classics)

by Emile Zola

Published: 2008-09-01

Paperback: 576 pages

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Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted "Ger...

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Germinal (Penguin Classics)

by Émile Zola

Published: 2004-05-25

Paperback: 592 pages

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The thirteenth novel in �mile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man...

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Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II

by Ram Oren

Published: 2010-08-03

Paperback: 320 pages

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Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List. Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when ...

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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations

by Georgina Howell

Published: 2008-04-29

Paperback: 512 pages

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A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical importShe has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behi...