From Publishers WeeklyIn German author Schlink's meandering second crime novel available in English to feature aging PI Gerhard Self (after Self'sPunishment), a man named...
As thousands faced death in Nazi-occupied Poland an unlikely savior materialized in the shadow of Auschwitz. A flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews...
Product DescriptionMeet Richards and Klein – the Holmes and Watson of the 22nd century. Except that Richards is a highly advanced artificial intelligence, and Klein his German ex-m...
SUMMARY: 1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnaj kull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, th...
SUMMARY: Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel, a German bestseller wi...
Das Glasperlenspiel, The Glass Bead Game, is the last work & magnum opus of Swiss-German author Hesse. Begun in '31, published in Switzerland in '43, it's mentioned in his citation...
SUMMARY: Inspired by the long-standing affair between Frieda, Lawrence’s German wife, and an Italian peasant who eventually became her third husband,Lady Chatterley’s Loveris the s...
From School Library JournalGrade 5–8—This trilogy ends with a bang. Having stumbled upon a way to travel through time, Johnny knows exactly when a German bomb will be dropped on hi...
SUMMARY: It is 1943, and the German Army has been defeated at Stalingrad. The Russians have taken 91,000 prisoners; 145,000 German soldiers have been killed. The tide is beginning ...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In her debut novel, Frank (A Brief History of Camouflage) presents a slightly fantastic tale of WWII, concerning an underground German bunker ...