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Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers

Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers
  • Author(s): Jill Culiner
  • Location(s): Romania, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1899-1907

The Fusgeyers were the thousands of Jewish Romanian men and women who, unwilling to tolerate anti-Semitism, left their country on foot between 1899 and 1907, and headed for North America. Destitute but resolute, they supported themselves by giving theatrical...

Finding Love at the Christmas Market

Finding Love at the Christmas Market
  • Author(s): Jo Thomas
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

Residential-home caterer Connie has had one online-dating disaster too many. Hurt in the past and with her son to consider, now she’s feeling hesitant. Then one of Connie’s residents sets her up on a date at a beautiful German...

Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin
  • Author(s): Len Deighton
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Going Big or Small

Going Big or Small
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): Berlin, Naples, Sicily, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth century

“Happy, sad and all emotions!” A Man Called Ove meets Thelma and Louise. Dull and predictable English retiree, Frank, gets more adventure than he bargained for when he sets off on a road trip across 1980s Europe hoping to...

Half a World Away

Half a World Away
  • Author(s): Sue Haasler
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Charming and talented Alex dreams of becoming a professional saxophonist while working long hours in the family bakery. Detlef, lonely, repressed, and a small-time Stasi informer, develops an obsessive love for him. But Alex has eyes only for Nicky,...

Hammer To Fall

Hammer To Fall
  • Author(s): John Lawton
  • Location(s): Prague, Berlin, Dublin, Finland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1966-68

It’s London, the swinging sixties, and by rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote...

Hannah’s War

Hannah’s War
  • Author(s): Jan Eliasberg
  • Location(s): New Mexico, Germany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s (Germany), 1945 (USA)

“Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah...

Happy Birthday, Turk!

Happy Birthday, Turk!
  • Author(s): Jakob Arjouni
  • Location(s): Frankfurt
  • Genre(s): Crime

Kemal Kayankaya is a Turkish PI working in Frankfurt. Ilter Hamul comes ot him asking to investigate the death of her husband.

Heidelberg Requiem

Heidelberg Requiem
  • Author(s): Wolfgang Burger
  • Location(s): Heidelberg
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alexander Gerlach assumes that his promotion to Police Chief of Heidelberg will bring with it a quieter life. A widower and a single parent raising twin teenage daughters, Gerlach is slowly beginning to rediscover not only himself, but also...

Heroes like us

Heroes like us
  • Author(s): Thomas Brussig
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 1990s

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