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In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic pride—of successes, failures, and above all...
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Lorelei Press
Pub. Date
©2013
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English
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Guidebook for doing genealogical research in Germany. Includes information on research, travel, gaining access to records, etc. Includes sub-sections on researching in Alsace-Lorraine (Elsaß-Lothringen), Austria, the Czech Republic (including Bohemia and Moriavia), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovenia, and Switzerland
7) SEND FOR ME
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An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family. Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her...
12) Hope Rising
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Of love and war volume 2
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English
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In World War I France, pregnant American nurse Evelyn Gray, whose fiancé has been killed, makes an unconventional proposal to injured Corporal Joel Campbell that could save both of their lives or destroy them completely
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Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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This engaging history of one of the largest ethnic groups in Illinois explores the influence and experiences of German immigrants and their descendants from their arrival in the middle of the nineteenth century to their heritage identity today--back cover
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II
15) The war outside
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world "where butchers sing like angels."
Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North...
17) A good American
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P.G. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf
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Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity. The only thing that makes the camp bearable...
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Alison Reynolds mysteries volume 16
Thorndike Press Large Print Basic
Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 16
Thorndike Press Large Print Basic
Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 16
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English
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Ali Reynolds' personal life is in turmoil when two separate men show up on the scene - a serial killer and a former employee of her husband's who has just been released from a sixteen-year prison sentence. According to the courts, Mateo Vega, a one-time employee of B. Simpson, murdered his girlfriend. But Mateo knows that her real killer is still on the loose. Mateo gets a job working for B. once again, and just as he starts his new job, chaos breaks...
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