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2) Berlin
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Language
English
Description
Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through the rise of Nazism.
During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Olivia Evezi's childhood is a happy one; her days spent listening to highlife records and poring over colourful postcards from Germany. When she leaves her hometown of Warri behind to live out her Enid Blyton fantasies in boarding school in Lagos, instead of adventure and lacrosse, she is met with punishments, endless chores and hazing rituals. Olivia's restlessness takes her to Germany, her mother's homeland, where she is thrown into a hidden world...
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Series
Coldest city volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
After a string of botched assignments for MI6 in Berlin, David Perceval is being sent home. Even his final mission before leavinǵ ђؤ the defection of a Soviet scientist́ ђؤ goes badly wrong, as the coldest winter for 30 years descends on Europe. With transport out of Berlin impossible, and the KGB searching everywhere for their lost scientist, Perceval must improvise a deadly game of cat and mouse through the frozen city to keep the Russians...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Set in the days immediately preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall, "The Coldest City" follows two British spies through the streets of West Berlin and across the border to the East as they attempt to recover an item of vital interest to national-- and international-- security.
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Language
English
Description
"A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history"--
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Language
English
Description
The life of reformer Martin Luther in graphic novel format… Five hundred years ago a brash young monk single-handedly confronted the most powerful institutions of his day. His bold stand sparked the Protestant Reformation and marked one of the great turning points in history. Martin Luther, a spiritual and historical giant, is loved and hated to this day―and for good reason. The anniversary of the revolution he helped start has produced a spate...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When he's five years old, Albert Einstein's father offers him a compass that triggers in him an irrepressible need to understand the laws of the universe. At first a simple employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, the young Einstein published in 1905 a series of scientific articles that question everything that was thought to be known in the world of physics. His theory, summed up by the formula E = mc2, opens to humanity the doors of the power...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 410L
Language
English
Description
Retells the love story between Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe, the famed "fifth Beatle," who started the band with John Lennon and left to become an artist before the band's rise to fame.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Germany, in the final years of the Third Reich. Hermann Karnau is a sound engineer obsessed with recording the human voice in all its variations--the rantings of leaders, the roar of crowds, the rasp of throats constricted in fear--and indifferent to everything else. Employed by the Nazis, his assignments take him to party rallies, to the eastern front, and into the household of Joseph Goebbels. There he meets Helga, the eldest daughter: bright,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Lust recounts her life as a young, enthusiastic anarchist making her way in Vienna in the 1990s - and of her love for two men: the "perfect companion" Georg, an actor twenty years her elder, and the "perfect lover," Kimata, a Nigerian man-about-town. As her relationships with the two men evolve, jealousy increasingly mounts and leads to emotional and violent outbreaks that threaten her life."--Amazon.com
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His theories and ideas were profoundly influenced by a five-year exploration of South America. Complete with excerpts from Humboldt's own diaries, atlases, and publications, Wulf gives us an intimate portrait of the man who predicted human-induced climate change, fashioned...
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