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1) Silverview
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"In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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In the town of Buczacz, Poland, nine-year-old Maxwell plays in the ruins of old castles and enjoys life with his family until the summer of 1939, when the Soviets invade and his life is turned upside-down. He adapts to the changes, but nothing can prepare him for the Nazi invasion to come two years later. Soon Maxwell is all alone in the frozen woods of Eastern Europe, hiding from the roving groups of Ukrainians and Nazis searching for Jews, while...
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Pub. Date
2010
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Meet Feliks Zhukovski, a Pole in Paris, and a hangover from another age. Decades back he chose politics over people and ideas over love. His life's work is a travel guide to the old Eastern bloc. His personal life is a series of failures. Unfortunately for Feliks, it's 1991. Communism has collapsed, East Germany isn't the economic miracle he wants it to be, and at sixty-one, his travel-writing days are numbered. Setting aside his misgivings, he travels...
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Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
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In Monika's first day on the job, a severed female head is found on a riverbank, and the killer has already alerted the press.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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"An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi...