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Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyśl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...
4) We lie here
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning home to host her parents’ 20th-anniversary party, TV writer Yara Gibson is harassed by texts from her mother’s childhood friend Felicia, who desperately needs to talk to her, but when Felicia dies, Yara digs for answers, uncovering a truth that will change her life—or end it.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's ball season in Vienna, and Maria Wallner only wants one thing: to restore her family's hotel to its former glory. She's not going to let anything get in her way - not her parents' three-decade-long affair; not seemingly-random attacks by masked assassins; and especially not the broad-shouldered American foreign agent who's saved her life two times already. No matter how luscious his mouth is. Eli Whittaker also only wants one thing: to find out...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in position of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
Author
Series
Secrets of Droon. Main series volume 22
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Evil Lord Sparr has found all of his Three Powers, and that adds up to big trouble for Droon. And once he reaches the Isle of Mists, he is going to try to take over all of Droon. But Eric, Keeah, and the others are hot on his trail.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When someone else lays claim to the cottage where he spent his childhood summers, Hugh, a historian, finds this person’s revelation unraveling a secret—a betrayal, a disappearance and an unstoppable acted of violence—that has impacted the Italian village of Valetto across generations.
10) Green: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1992 Boston, Dave, a white boy at a mostly black middle school, befriends Marlon, a youth who lives in public housing and who confounds Dave's assumptions about black culture before their bond is tested by girls, family secrets, and national violence.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A German Jew and soldier seeking revenge for the deaths of his family, a young lieutenant is brought to recover in Sicily where he is recruited by a British major to join the newly formed X Troop, all “lost boys” driven not by patriotism but by vengeance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1950 New York City, this gritty noir follows Viviana Valentine, former Girl Friday, now partner to the Big Apple’s top investigator, Tommy Fortuna, is drawn into a sordid new case when murder attends a wealthy scientist’s party whose top-secret lab has just been exposed.
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