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Berlin trilogy (Jonathan Rabb) volume 1
Language
English
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In post-World War I Berlin, Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner investigates a series of murders in which five women--including revolutionary leader Rosa Luxemburg--turn up dead with identical markings etched into their backs.
Author
Series
Willi Kraus novels volume 1
Language
English
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During the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, a young woman washes up in the Havel River in picture-perfect Old Spandau. Bodies in rivers are hardly news in the chaos of 1932 Berlin, maddened by years of war, defeat, revolution, inflation, depravity and now the Great Depression. But this one is different. Willi Kraus is a decorated soldier, and Germany's most celebrated Jewish detective thanks to his recent success at nabbing a monstrous child killer....
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Publisher
Sceptre
Language
English
Description
Written in startlingly beautiful prose, this book is set across New York, Berlin and Connecticut, following the stories of Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki's son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront he mother who abandoned him when he was only two years old. This book is an unforgettable novel about the complexities of identity, art, adolescent friendships and familial bonds, offering...
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English
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A moving portrait of a young woman's experience of life, love, and the shifting tides of mental health in 1980s era Berlin. A young mixed-race woman travels from Canada to Germany to start her life anew. Ruby Edwards throws herself into the shifting social and political sinews of 1980s-era West Berlin. Here, Ruby finds love and new challenges, striving to discover the person she was meant to be. But the highs become too high and the lows too low,...
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English
Description
Three years ago, intelligence officer Will Cochrane was brought in by a Delta Force colonel to assassinate a terrorist financier in Berlin. After the job, the commander vanished, and hasn't been heard from since. The details don't quite add up, and one of the CIA agents who was involved has been investigating the mission. He reaches out to Will for help, but before they can connect, the CIA man is poisoned. Will is determined to uncover the truth...
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English
Description
"A singular debut from an exciting new voice, The Applicant explores with scorching wit and startling brevity what it means to be an immigrant, woman, and emerging writer. It's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twentysomething living in Berlin, is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis, losing her student visa, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her fate. Increasingly distant from...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage--called a "fast-moving thinking man's thriller" by The Wall Street Journal--comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. Berlin 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city...
11) Red winter
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English
Description
"1985 -- A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer -- invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. It's an offer they can't pass up... if it's genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
"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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