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81) The divided city
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Gregor Reinhardt novels volume 3
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English
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"Luke McCallin, author of The Pale House and The Man from Berlin, delivers a dark, compelling thriller set in post-World War II Germany featuring ex-intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. A year after Germany's defeat, Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin's civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, but tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey...
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"An uproarious novel about a Brazilian man's often sordid, lifelong search for a possibly imaginary half-brother, born in Germany just before the Second World War"--
"In 1960s São Paulo, teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a scholar, cold and aloof, has spent his life acquiring them; his mother, by necessity, has spent her life organizing them. Ciccio himself feels like an...
83) Death in Berlin
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En route to a Germany still scarred by World War II, young Miranda Brand finds herself caught up in a search for a fortune in lost diamonds and in a murder committed on the night train to Berlin.
88) Sojourn
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"In this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a fragmented, fuguelike state. An Indian writer has come to Berlin in the fall of 2005, invited to deliver a weekly lecture at a local university as the visiting Böll professor. This is his second visit to the city, but it has been some years since the last and it remains a strange place to him. Bemused by its...
89) W pułapce
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Polish
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"Klara budzi się na klatce schodowej. Nie pamięta, co się działo w nocy, nie wie, jak wróciła do domu. Z przerażeniem orientuje się, że od imprezy, na którą wyszla w sobotę, minęły dwa dni. Odkrywa dziwne ślady na swoim ciele. A później dowiaduje się, że rok wcześniej inną kobietę spotkało coś bardzo podobnego. Postanawia się z nią skontaktować. I wtedy ktoś podrzuca jej dziwny prezent. Co się stalo z tamtą dziewczyną?...
90) Sleeping boy
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English
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A young German boy and his family fall under a spell that puts them to sleep until peace comes to the city of Berlin.
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New Directions paperbook volume 1237
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English
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"First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires ? this was the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. Goodbye...
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"Stag Maguire, a burnt-out journalist hardly able to prop himself up in the wake of tragedy, agrees to help a friend move. They find an urgent message--HELP ME--written on a piece of silk tacked behind a long-forgotten portrait. The message from an address in Berlin is urgent; though it had to have been written pre-World War II. Curious, Stag and his friend, begin to research the address and whomever might have written the message. They trace the...
98) Goldstein
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English
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"Abraham Goldstein, a professional hit man, arrives in Berlin from New York. The FBI has sent a warning and Gereon Rath is assigned to keep him out of action--a mind-numbingly boring job when the city's department stores are being robbed one by one, an underworld power struggle is playing out, and Nazi brownshirts are patrolling the streets. In Weimar Berlin nothing is predictable, but Goldstein will surprise them all"--
99) Berlin syndrome
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One afternoon, near the tourist trap of Checkpoint Charlie, Clare meets Andi. There is an instant attraction, and when Andi invites her to stay, Clare thinks she may finally have found somewhere to call home. But as the days pass and the walls of Andi's apartment close in, Clare begins to wonder if it's really love that Andi is searching for a or something else altogether. Berlin Syndrome is a closely observed and gripping psychological thriller that...
100) The patriot
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A spy thriller featuring Russian agent Andrei Serotkin and Francesca McDermott, an American art historian. They become involved in a plot to hijack an exhibition of paintings in Germany and hold it for ransom. The plot is part of a scheme by diehard Communists to regain power in Russia. By the author of Ablaze.