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-- Twenty-two Britannia Roadc2011., Adult, Pamela Dorman Books/Viking Call No: Fic Hod Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Leaving Poland for England at the end of World War II, Silvana is accompanied by eight-year-old, near-feral Aurek, with whom she shares traumatic wartime memories that set them apart from her husband, who has remade himself as an Englishman to forget the past."--NoveList.
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c2004., Penguin Group. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Jacqueline Winspear's marvelous and inspired debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from coast to coast and raised her intuitive and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather finds Maisie on another dangerously intruiging adventure in London between the wars. It is the spring of 1930 and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. When three of the heiress' old friends are found dead, Maisie must race to find out who would want to kill these seemingly respectable young women before it's too late. As Maisie investigates she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War.
![Birds of a feather [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT77103.JPG "Birds of a feather [eBook]")
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2014., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Book T Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Based on the beloved best-selling book comes an 'extremely moving' (Leonard Maltin, Indiewire) story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) is adopted by a German couple (Oscar Winner Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson). Although she arrives illiterate, Liesel is encouraged to learn to read by her adoptive father. When the couple then takes in Max (Ben Schnetzer), a Jew hiding from Hitler's army, Liesel befriends him. Ultimately, words and imagination provide the friends with an escape from the events unfolding around them in this extraordinary, acclaimed film directed by Brian Percival (Downton Abbey)."--Container.
![The book thief [ DVD] (2014). Directed by Brian Percival](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The book thief [ DVD] (2014). Directed by Brian Percival")
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By Baily, Ginny2016., Back Bay Book/Little, Brown and Company Call No: Fic Bai Edition: First Back Bay trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two women's decision to save a child during WWII will have powerful reverberations over the years. Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a child in her charge. Several decades later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, a self-contained woman working as a translator. Always in the background is the shadow of Daniele, whose absence and the havoc he wrought on Chiara's world haunt her. Then she receives a phone call from a teenager claiming to be his daughter, and Chiara knows it is time to face up to the past.
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c2001, p1987., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Empire Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.
![Empire of the sun [DVD] (1987). Directed by Steven Spielberg.](/Library/images/~imageCT71029.JPG "Empire of the sun [DVD] (1987). Directed by Steven Spielberg.")
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c2010., Adult, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: Fic Cla Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2014., Adult, Mulholland Books Call No: Fic Tak Edition: 1st North American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "During a briefing in Washington D.C., the President is informed of a threat to national security: a three-year-old boy named Akili, who is already the smartest being on the planet. Representing the next step in human evolution, Akili can perceive patterns and predict future events better than most supercomputers, and is capable of manipulating grand-scale events like pieces on a chess board. And yet, for all that power, Akili has the emotional maturity of a child--which might make him the most dangerous threat humanity has ever faced. An American soldier, Jonathan Yeager, leads an international team of elite operatives deep into the heart of the Congolese jungle under Presidential orders to destroy this threat to humanity before Akili's full potential can be realized. But Yeager has a very sick child, and Akili's advanced knowledge of all things, medicine included, may be Yeager's only hope for saving his son's life. Soon Yeager finds himself caught between following his orders and saving a creature with a hidden agenda, who plans to either save humanity as we know it--or destroy it."--Publisher.
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1999., Adult, Legacy Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Holcroft Edition: Widescreen. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Caine stars as the son of a prominent Nazi who becomes involved in a plot to release money supposedly set aside for Holocaust victims.
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2018., Adult, Freehand Books Call No: Bio R114h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Homes tells the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before the start of the Syrian civil war. It recounts what it was like living in Syria during this time -- the normal things like video games, sleepovers, and family jarringly juxtaposed with car bombings, massacres, and the constant threat of what could happen next. In 2014 the family finally found safety in immigrating to Edmonton, Canada, and the book also recounts both the gratefulness and the loneliness of the family's immigration experience."--
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c2015., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: SC Fic Oha Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Now an elderly woman, Anne Quirk was in her youth an artistic pioneer, a creator of ground-breaking documentary photographs. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain in the British army is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. When his mission goes horribly wrong, he ultimately comes face to face with questions of loyalty and moral responsibility that will continue to haunt him. Once Luke returns home to Scotland, Anne's secret story begins to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.
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2005, c1956., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Man in the Edition: Standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Studio classic Volume: 34.Summary Note: Upon his return home, a World War II veteran grapples with what is most important, his career or his family.
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-- Maus II.1991., Pantheon Books Call No: GN 940.53 S755m2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph" and a "brutally moving work of art," the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. As the New York Times Book Review commented," [it is] a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event." This long-awaited sequel, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Vladek's troubled remarriage, minor arguments between father and son, and life's everyday disappointments are all set against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale -- and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.
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2015., Adult, The Experiment Call No: BLK Bio T258m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List, Amon Goeth"--Provided by publisher.
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2018., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: 940.53161 B223s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1940, when Hitler's tanks reached the English Channel and German bombs fell on London, the invasion of the United Kingdom seemed imminent. Among the many thousands of British children finding a safe haven during the war, Benjamin Barman was sent by his parents to stay with the Penrose family in London, Ontario. Along with Margaret Penrose, a childhood friend of his mother, Ben wrote letters to his family from 1940 until his return to England late in 1943. Transcribed and illustrated with contemporary photographs, this correspondence provides graphic insight into the trauma faced by a child refugee as he struggled to adapt to a completely new life and society far from his family. Captivating and instructive, the letters, along with detailed reports provided to Ben's parents by his host mother, speak to Canadians' unflinching support of the British despite the many deprivations and difficulties that the war inflicted on them. Introduced and extensively annotated by Ben's youngest brother, Roderick, a professional historian, Safe Haven reveals the intimate day-to-day life of one Canadian household during the Second World War and the realities of evacuated British children, their families, and the people who hosted them."--
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2009., St. Martin's Press Call No: 962.404 J26j Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view Summary Note: In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven-year-old Sudanese boy, living in a small village. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer, his family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan. Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, and fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade. Remarkably, he survived, and was adopted by a British aid worker, beginning the journey that would lead him to music: he recorded and released his own album, including the number one hip-hop single in Kenya, and has gone on to perform with international music stars, and to use his fame to help children like him.--From publisher description.
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2018., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Ond Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey--through facts, recollection, and imagination--that he narrates in this masterwork.
