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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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"With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
2) Armageddon
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Meticulously researched, this New York Times bestselling novel gives a historically accurate account of the early days of the Cold War and the fight for German redemption.
At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O'Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O'Sullivan struggles against his animosity toward the nation...
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"Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and a lower level CIA operative. On the other side of the trade: Martin Keller, a physicist...
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"In this edge-of-your-seat novel packed with historical photographs, two cousins divided by the Cold War must work together or risk loosing everything. Berlin, 1961. Drew is an army brat in West Berlin, where US soldiers like his dad hold a tiny outpost of democracy against Communist Russia and occupied East Germany. Drew's cousin Matthias has grown up across the city's border on streets ruled by secret police and anti-American propaganda. From enemy...
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[2021]
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Traveling to recently unified Berlin in search of a little-known avant-garde jazzman whom he believes to be a musical kindred spirit, disaffected Los Angeles DJ Darky encounters the dramatic local changes that have transpired after the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and ruminates on a range of cultural, social, and philosophical topics.
8) Going over
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Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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In the early 1980s Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall--Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West.
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2023.
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Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.
Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep...
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[2022]
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"Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and betrayal, she must make desperate choices to survive--and protect...
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Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 2
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A photo-illustrated chronicle of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which covers the events and ideologies that led to its construction; the factors that brought change in the 1980s; the time line of the night it was torn down, November 9, 1989; and the impact of the city's opening on eastern and western Berliners and world politics.
14) Over and out
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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"Sophie has spent her entire life behind the Berlin Wall, guarded by land mines, towers, and attack dogs. A science lover, Sophie dreams of becoming an inventor ... but that's unlikely in East Berlin, where the Stasi, the secret police, are always watching. Though she tries to avoid their notice, when her beloved neighbor is arrested, Sophie is called to her principal's office. There, a young Stasi officer asks Sophie if she'll spy on her neighbor...
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2014.
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"In The Collapse historian Mary Elise Sarotte shows that the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, was not, as is commonly believed, the East German government's deliberate concession to outside influence. It was an accident. A carelessly worded memo written by mid-level bureaucrats, a bumbling press conference given by an inept member of the East German Politburo, the negligence of government leaders, the bravery of ordinary people in East...
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2021.
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"The lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II that fired the starting gun for the Cold War"--
After the 1945 Yalta Conference, Berlin-- along with the rest of Germany-- was to be carved up among the victorious powers. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution. In reality, once the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union were no longer united by the common purpose of defeating Germany, they wasted...
17) The berlin Wall
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Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
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A history of the much hated wall that for nearly thirty years divided Berlin and created two separate countries.
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Series
Secret of the rose volume 3
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 25
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American Matthew McCallum, pursued by the dangerous section chief for the Stasi, locates Sabina and her father in East Germany in 1962, and now must find a way for the three of them to escape to freedom
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[2009]
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Women become the victims of the Red Army invasion in Berlin in 1945. One of them, Anonyma, a educated woman, decides to look for an officer who can protect her. A complex symbiotic relationship develops between her and Russian officer Andrej that will force them to remain enemies until the bitter end.