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  • Rheinsberg

    A Story Book for Lovers

    by Kurt Tucholsky, Peter Boethig ...
    Translated by Cindy Opitz ...
    Series Book 2 - Tucholsky in Translation
    One summer before World War I, a young couple escapes on a romantic weekend getaway to the small German town of Rheinsberg, north of Berlin, in the midst of a rural landscape filled with country houses and castles, cobble-stone streets, lush forests, and dreamy lakes. The story of Wolfie and Claire, told with a fresh, new style of ironic humor, became Kurt Tucholsky's first literary success and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Berlin! Berlin!

    Dispatches from the Weimar Republic

    by Kurt Tucholsky ...
    Translated by Cindy Opitz ...
    Series Book 1 - Tucholsky in Translation
    Berlin! Berlin! is a satirical selection from the "man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy," as New York author and Tucholsky-expert Peter Wortsman writes. This book os a complete collection of Tucholsky's news stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his hometown Berlin. It depicts Weimar Berlin, its cabarets, its policies, its follies, its ticks, and its celebrities ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Germany? Germany!: Satirical Writings

    The Kurt Tucholsky Reader

    by Kurt Tucholsky ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Series Book 3 - Tucholsky in Translation
    Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures, loved by his many readers and hated by the Nazis. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920s Berlin still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. But he was more than just an angry truth-teller; he was also one of the funniest satirical writers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Prayer After the Slaughter

    Poems and Stories From World War I

    by Kurt Tucholsky, Peter Appelbaum, James Scott ...
    Series Book 4 - Tucholsky in Translation
    No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, quite like he did. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany's best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writing is similar to that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Mother Night

    A Novel

    by Kurt Vonnegut ...
    “Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—TimeMother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Director

    A Novel

    by Daniel Kehlmann ...
    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT BOOK CLUB PICK**“Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (The New York Times), a visionary novel inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst,... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Deadly Travel

    Deadly Series, #5

    by Kate Parker ...
    Series Book 5 - Deadly Series
    Travel to Berlin in 1939 is treacherous. Carrying out two clandestine missions in the enemy capital could prove deadly.When a Quaker Kindertransport chaperone is murdered in the East End of London, Britain's counterintelligence spymaster tasks Olivia Denis to join the group rescuing children from Nazi Germany. Olivia must find not only a killer, but a traitor relaying sensitive material to the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In My Mother's House

    A Novel

    by Margaret McMullan ...
    "Graceful . . . The global catastrophe of the Nazi era we know about. It is the individual, private pain it caused that is skillfully given voice here." — The Boston GlobeIn My Mother's House is a beautiful, haunting, and elegantly crafted novel about a daughter's obsession to understand her mother's staunch commitment to silence about their family's experiences during World War II Vienna—and how ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Berlin Alexanderplatz

    by Alfred Doblin ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature.Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Collected Enchantments

    by Theodora Goss ...
    A monumental career retrospective"This vibrant collection brings together World Fantasy Award winner Goss's exquisite interpretations of and variations on familiar folk and fairy tales. The [poems and stories] span the length of Goss's career ... All approach well-known stories from unexpected angles and with deep empathy for the characters ... The abundance of pieces sometimes has the effect of a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All for Nothing

    by Walter Kempowski ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    A wealthy family tries—and fails—to seal themselves off from the aftermath of World War II in this historical fiction “masterpiece” by one of Germany’s most important post-war writers (The New Yorker).In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family’s manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lost Paradise

    A Novel

    by Cees Nooteboom ...
    Translated by Susan Massotty ...
    From "one of the greatest modern novelists" comes a haunting tale of angels, art, and modern love (A. S. Byatt).In Lost Paradise, Cees Nooteboom sets out to connect two seemingly unrelated strangers whom he has glimpsed on his travels, and to explore the major impact that small interactions can have on the course of our journeys.A beautiful woman aboard a Berlin-bound flight becomes Alma, a young ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus