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121) Berlin Express
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Hiro, a 20-year-old Japanese student, sits next to an old man on a train to Berlin. By mistake, Hiro reads the man's text messages. What do they mean? Is the man really a businessman or is he a killer? Hiro thinks he knows, but in Berlin no-one listens to his warnings."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In English for the first time, a biting satirical novel about an untalented, self-delusioned celebrity who seduces all of Weimar Berlin. In Berlin, 1930, the name Kasebier is on everyone's lips. A literal combination of the German words for "cheese" and "beer," it's an unglamorous name for an unglamorous man--a small-time crooner who performs nightly on a shabby stage for laborers, secretaries, and shopkeepers. Until the press shows up. In the blink...
Author
Publisher
Manor and State LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Ritter is a detective on the East Berlin murder squad -- the youngest detective they have, really too young to have been hired but too well-connected to be fired. And in the weeks before the Berlin Wall is to be built, he is called out in the middle of the night to a macabre murder scene within the Soviet war memorial in Treptower Park. As his investigation continues, multiple layers of life in East Berlin are revealed: the crisis created by...
124) Berlin noir
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"The 13 stories in this welcome entry in Akashic's noir series, all set in 21st-century Berlin, are less about traditional crime and more likely to involve gentrification, immigrants, or Airbnb ... There's more than enough variety to entertain most readers."--Publishers Weekly "A city with a rich noir past looks beyond its history to an equally unsettling present ... Wörtche keeps his promise to show Berlin as 'always moving forward in the present'...
125) The champagne queen
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 2
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Isabelle took a chance and eloped with Leon Feininger, her true love, she hadn't stopped to consider what would happen next. Winter on his family's isolated vineyard proves tougher than she expected, and Isabelle finds herself daydreaming, envisioning the wines she and Leon will make when they have their own land. An unexpected inheritance opens a door for the newlyweds--Leon's uncle has left them a vineyard, and in champagne country no less!...
126) Fräulein M
Author
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"BERLIN, 1931: Sisters raised in a Catholic orphanage, Berni and Grete Metzger are each other's whole world. That is, until life propels them to opposite sides of seedy, splendid, and violent Weimar Berlin. Berni becomes a cigarette girl, a denizen of the cabaret scene alongside her transgender best friend, who is considering a risky gender reassignment surgery. Meanwhile Grete is hired as a maid to a Nazi family, and begins to form a complicated...
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