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  • Remembering Slavery

    African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

    The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-ReedWith the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America's imagination—and conscience—once again.No group of people better understood the power of slavery's legacies than the last generation of ... Read more

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  • A Manual for Cleaning Women

    Selected Stories

    by Lucia Berlin ...
    One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the L... ... Read more

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  • Exit Berlin

    How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany

    Translated by Nataicha Bodemann ...
    Centered around one family's preserved personal letters, this is "an intimate, engaging examination of the plight of German Jewish refugees" ( Kirkus Reviews).Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly ... Read more

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  • Some Murders in Berlin

    A WWII Historical Fiction Novel

    by Karen Robards ...
    This pulse-pounding, brilliantly twisting new historical thriller is a gripping tale that will leave you questioning everything.September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Refuge in Hell

    How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis

    "Fascinating footnote to Holocaust history . . . a Jewish hospital in the heart of Berlin that treated patients to the very end of Hitler's reign" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)"One of the most incredible stories of World War II." — Dallas Morning NewsHow did Berlin's Jewish Hospital, in the middle of the Nazi capital, survive as an institution where Jewish doctors and nurses cared for Jewish ... Read more

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  • Then We Take Berlin

    A Novel

    by John Lawton ...
    “A stylish spy thriller” of postwar Berlin—the first in a thrilling new series from the acclaimed author of the Inspector Troy novels (The New York Times Book Review).John Wilfrid Holderness—aka Joe Wilderness—has gone from young Cockney cardsharp surviving the London Blitz to MI6 agent navigating war-ravaged Europe to his current career of “free-agent gumshoe” weathering Cold War fears and hard ... Read more

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  • The Berlin Wife

    A totally gripping WW2 historical novel about bravery against the odds

    Series Book 1 - German Wives
    Germany, 1938. ‘No,’ she cries out as she falls to the floor, fear clutching desperately at her chest, ‘They can’t have taken him, they can’t have taken my husband.’ As her tear-filled eyes dart wildly around the empty room, she realises she has no one to turn to. She is his only hope. But how can she possibly save him? When shy, beautiful Edith first met Jewish-born Julius it was love at first ... Read more

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  • Forty Autumns

    A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall

    by Nina Willner ...
    From the bestselling author of The Boys in the Light."Top 15 Nonfiction Books of 2016. A poignant parable of hope and, at times, a harrowing ghost story." —The Christian Science MonitorIn this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the ... Read more

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  • My German Question

    Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

    by Peter Gay ...
    "Not only a memoir, it's also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany" ( Publishers Weekly).In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939—"the story," says Peter Gay, "of a poisoning and how I dealt with it." With his customary ... Read more

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  • The Fall of Berlin

    The final days of Hitler's evil regime

    In April 1945, Soviet forces descended on Berlin in the final phase of the war in Europe. The fighting was fierce as soldiers fanatically loyal to the Nazi party - and those afraid of the vengeance their opponents might enact - sought to stave off the end of the regime as long as possible.Even as it became clear that defeat was inevitable, Hitler and his subordinates determined to fight to the ... Read more

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  • Stay Alive

    Berlin, 1939-1945

    by Ian Buruma ...
    **Named a Best Book of 2026 So Far by The New Yorker“Crisply told and uncomfortably relevant.” —The New York Times Book Review“Exquisite.” —Wall Street JournalAn astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation**In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Novelist from Berlin

    “This is an engrossing story of the people who made different choices, many times when life or death was at stake.” —Janice Ottersberg, Historical Novel SocietyAn engrossing novel inspired by the mysterious true story of Irmgard Keun, a female novelist who defied all the rules during Berlin’s volcanic post-WWI years, as a young German writer exiled for her ideas flees her country and her Nazi ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD