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Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passions, and circumstances, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France -- a heart-breakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women.
Author
Series
Songs in the night volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A German pastor, Joseph Schumacher joins the resistance movement against Hitler, hoping to save his young parishioners from the evils of Nazism.
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The book is a fictional memoir based on actual events. The inspiration for the book came from hundreds of letters and other accounts written by Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur who were living in German-occupied Belgium and Italy during World War Two. Turner created a composite character, Sister Christina, who is described as an Ohio farm girl, who joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Namur to teach English and agricultural skills to young Catholic girls....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
7) Bette
Author
Series
Women of Ivy Manor volume 2
Publisher
Warner Faith
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"A woman coming of age during World War II becomes involved in anti-Nazi espionage"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1941 twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and he begins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group who opposes the Nazis.
10) Escape
Author
Series
Plot to kill Hitler volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the attempt on Hitler's life, the Hoffmanns must flee Berlin, but they have to leave Father behind at the mercy of the Gestapo.
12) Legacy of war
Author
Series
Courtney volume 20
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The war is over, Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe. . . Further afield in Kenya, the last outcrop of the colonial...
13) Alone in Berlin
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of Berlin in 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. Their son is killed fighting on the frontlines. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages of protest across the city.
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1942, France. As the war in Europe rages on, Adele Ambeh dreams of a France that is free from the clutches of the new regime. The date of her marriage to a ruthless man is drawing closer, and she only has one choice - she must run. With the help of her mother, Adele flees to Lyon, seeking refuge at the Sisters of Notre Dame del la Compassion. From the outside this is a simple nunnery, but the sisters are secretly aiding the French Resistance, hiding...
15) Execution
Author
Series
Plot to kill Hitler volume 2
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summer 1944. Max, Gerta, and their parents have abandoned their home and relocated to a safehouse in a different Berlin neighborhood. The Hoffmanns share the tight quarters with Kat Vogel, the daughter of an executed Becker Circle conspirator. Though they have strict orders to stay inside unless absolutely necessary, the three kids sneak out regularly, all while concocting a plan to keep the spirit of their resistance alive. They're going to burn...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda,...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a remarkable but largely unsung group known as the Bund, League of Socialist Life, which went on to resist the Nazis during WWII, sheltering Jews and covertly sending letters and parcels into concentration camps, among other activities"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms. As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with it a castle and an estate in the north...
20) Valkyrie
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Based on the true event, Colonel von Stauffenberg and his fellow officers attempt to assassinate the Führer.
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