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Red Pill

Red Pill
  • Author(s): Hari Kunzru
  • Location(s): Paris, Berlin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of “Red Pill” arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he...

Remote Sympathy

Remote Sympathy
  • Author(s): Catherine Chidgey
  • Location(s): Buchenwald
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

“A powerful and disturbing study in terrible lies and the human need to believe them. Few readers will close this book unshaken.” ANNIE PROULX   Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience...

RESISTANCE WOMEN

RESISTANCE WOMEN
  • Author(s): Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life...

Rhine Journey

Rhine Journey
  • Author(s): Ann Schlee
  • Location(s): The Rhine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1851

It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. Charlotte may be a spinster aunt with a seemingly sparse life, but beneath that quiet respectability lie unsuspected depths....

Rhinehoth

Rhinehoth
  • Author(s): Brian E Niskala
  • Location(s): Black Forest
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

Centuries ago a great castle was built in the mountains of Germany’s Black Forest. Its ancient guardians still thrive in its walls forever protecting its dark secrets, holding captive an enemy that threatens their very existence. Foretold is a...

Rise of Emperors: Masters of Rome

Rise of Emperors: Masters of Rome
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty, Simon Turney
  • Location(s): Italy, France, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

Their rivalry will change the world forever. As competition for the imperial throne intensifies, Constantine and Maxentius realise their childhood friendship cannot last. Each man struggles to control their respective quadrant of empire, battered by currents of politics, religion...

Roger and the Cancelled Czech

Roger and the Cancelled Czech
  • Author(s): Jerold Last
  • Location(s): Prague, Budapest, Munich, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Who is The Cobra, a shadowy character with major connections to the worlds of espionage and art theft? The answer to this question is the key to finding the leaders of a mysterious worldwide political conspiracy with its roots...

Rose Under Fire

Rose Under Fire
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wein
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women’s concentration camp. Trapped in horrific circumstances, Rose finds hope...

Safe Houses

Safe Houses
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s and present

In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA’s operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life;...

Salt to the Sea

Salt to the Sea
  • Author(s): Ruta Sepetys
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2, 1945

It’s early 1945 and a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land. Four young people, each haunted by their own dark secret,...

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