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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her grand uncles have been building in their back yard for over forty years.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This picture book biography introduces Hungarian American biochemist Katalin Karikó, who played a critical role in developing the mRNA vaccine for COVID-19. Follow the journey of Katalin (Kati) Karikó from her childhood in rural Hungary"--
Author
Series
Shadow of liberty volume 2
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c 2001
Language
English
Description
Book 2 in the "Shadow of Liberty" seriesIn the Swiss village of Chur, renowned surgeon Erik Linden struggles to save the life of a critically wounded patient - the woman who broke his heart only days before. When Metryka perishes, her father accuses Erik of causing her death. As his hometown turns against him, the young doctor vows never to perform surgery again and sails for New York City, unaware that it will carry him an ocean apart from the one...
Author
Series
Shadow of liberty volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c 2001
Language
English
Description
Young Russian Vladimir Petrovna is always minutes away from disaster. He is a Christian in a pagan country that exacts extreme penalties from believers. His farm is nearly destroyed by blight and he cannot pay the taxes he owes. And he is a husband and father of three whose daughter is secretly in love with a Cossack-one of the very soldiers who persecute families like Vladimir's. Though he may lose everything he loves, Vladimir must trust God as...
12) The couple
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A Jewish Hungarian is forced to hand over his wealth to the Nazis for the safe passage of his family out of occupied Europe, only to find his two remaining servants are left trapped in a web of deceit and danger, and he is their only hope for survival.
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c 2001
Language
English
Description
Inheriting his slighted forefathers' bitter hatred for Queen Victoria, Nigel Whitaker has finally found a way to punish the Queen: kidnap her great-grandson David, "the apple of her eye," and whisk him off to America. But when fortune-seeking emigrants Jeremy and Cecelia Barlow, unable to have children of their own after a riding accident, become attached to the adorable child, his fate is even more uncertain. Meanwhile back in England, Queen Victoria's...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
From the author of EMBERS comes another masterpiece: an erotically charged novel about Casanova and the woman who finally defeated him. Sandor Marai, one of the leading Hungarian novelists, begins his story in 1756 when Giacomo Casanova, after having escaped from one of Venice's infamous jails, stops at the Italian village of Bolzano to rest, secure a loan to rebuild his life, and resume his art of seduction. But he's come to this village remembering...
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
199-?]
Language
Swedish
Description
"The story of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg who helped Jews in Budapest, Hungary in 1944 obtain Swedish passports to get them out of Adolph Eichmann's deadly path. He saved over 60,000 people in Budapest's Jewish ghetto."--container.