Best German Novels 21st Century - April 2024

The American Agent: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07B7K973K
• ASIN: B07B7K973K
• Manufacturer: Harper

War and Peace (Vintage Classics)

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadWar and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rosto... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400079985
• ASIN: 1400079985
• ISBN: 1400079985
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

• ASIN: B00N6PD3GE
• ASIN: B00N6PD3GE
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.” — The New York TimesJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II.In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01M0EOI6I
• ASIN: B01M0EOI6I
• Brand: Dey Street Books
• Manufacturer: Dey Street Books

To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Finalist for the Inaugural Sue Grafton Memorial AwardMaisie Dobbs—one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction (Richmond Times Dispatch)—faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II.During the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0722N61XC
• ASIN: B0722N61XC
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Harper

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal This “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family’s wartime history in Nazi Germany.Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476796629
• ASIN: 1476796629
• ISBN: 1476796629
• Manufacturer: Scribner

In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie DobbsSunday September 3rd 1939.  At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain’s declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shel... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01HBPQV2W
• ASIN: B01HBPQV2W
• Manufacturer: Harper

Gideon's Rescue (A Gideon and Sirius Novel Book 4)

The #1 bestselling series featuring detective Michael Gideon and his K-9 partner, Sirius.Something wicked his way comes…LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd K-9 partner, Sirius, walked through fire to catch an infamous serial killer, and Gideon is still paying the price with his PTSD fire dreams. To assist the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, Gideon has agreed to monthly prison visits with Ellis Haines, aka the Weatherman. This time, a homicide case the FBI wants Haines to analyze sparks a chilling discovery: A new serial killer has struck, and he's lacing his crime scenes ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07CHPDQTM
• ASIN: B07CHPDQTM
• Manufacturer: Three Tails Press

With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain

“[With Wings Like Eagles is] bold and refreshing… Korda writes with great elegance and flair.”—Wall Street Journal From the New York Times bestselling author of Ike and Horse People, Michael Korda, comes With Wings Like Eagles, the harrowing story of The Battle of Britain, one of the most important battles of World War II. In the words of the Washington Post Book World, “With Wings Like Eagles is a skillful, absorbing, often moving contribution to the popular understanding of one of the few episodes in history … to deserve the description ‘heroic.’”

• ASIN: B001NLL32O
• ASIN: B001NLL32O
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue—the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street Journal).It’s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square—a place of many memories—she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject f... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0105TIXJA
• ASIN: B0105TIXJA
• Manufacturer: Harper

The Girl From the Train

Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Aushwitz. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks. “Richly imagined and masterfully told, a love story so moving it will leave you breathless. And deeply satisfied.” —Tamera Alexander, USA Today bestselling author As World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They intend to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretl’s unscheduled train reaches the bomb first.Gretl is the only survivor. Though spared from the concentration camp, the orphaned Ger... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0529102374
• ASIN: 0529102374
• ISBN: 0529102374
• Brand: Joubert Irma
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD  NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST,  BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGARThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.  Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's u... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06XQZPVDD
• ASIN: B06XQZPVDD
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

The Liam Devlin Novels: The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, and Confessional

Three New York Times–bestselling thrillers take IRA gunman Liam Devlin from WWII to the Cold War to a terrorist plot in Northern Ireland. In The Eagle Has Landed, the inspiration for the film starring Donald Sutherland, an audacious Nazi plan to kidnap Winston Churchill threatens to tip the scales of World War II. In November 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: Abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01GUO7CQ4
• ASIN: B01GUO7CQ4
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

The Rings of Saturn

• ASIN: B00BGLCFCS
• ASIN: B00BGLCFCS
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: New Directions

Austerlitz (Modern Library (Paperback))

This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812982614
• ASIN: 0812982614
• ISBN: 0812982614
• Brand: Modern Library
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing

• UPC: 995262243
• Rating: 3.917

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to

• UPC: 693829819
• Rating: 3.778

The Global Novel : Writing the World in the 21st Century

"Illuminating." - The New York Times Book Review Named one of "Ten Books to Read this April" by the BBC What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization? In The Global Novel,

• UPC: 55548105
• Rating: 5.0

Discover What You're Best At : Revised for the 21St Century

Describes a wide range of occupations and provides a test of skills in subjects, such as logic, business, and mathematics, designed to determine the reader's career

• UPC: 375360
• Rating: 4.0

21 lecciones para el siglo XXI / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Vuelve HarariAutor de Sapiens, bestseller del momento con más de diez millones de copias vendidas en todo el mundo. Sapiens es un recorrido por nuestro pasado.Homo Deus, una mirada a nuestro futuro. 21 lecciones para

• UPC: 665404781
• Rating: 3.778

A 21st Century Courtesan - eBook

A world of silk sheets, imported champagne, and endless delight await in A 21st Century Courtesan.** **She fulfills the deepest fantasies of the most powerful men in the world. Sensual, seductive, and discreet, Valentine Day is

• UPC: 387364681
• Rating: 3.0

Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century - eBook

Neil Gaiman has emerged as one of the most influential literary figures of the 21st century. To borrow a phrase from his viral 2012 University of the Arts commencement speech, Gaiman “makes good art,” from

• UPC: 859812066
• Rating: 3.8

21st Century Dead - eBook

The Stoker-award winning editor of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology The New Dead returns with 21st Century Dead*,* and an all-new lineup of authors from all corners of the fiction world, shining a dark light on

• UPC: 386593269
• Rating: 4.188

Vernon God Little : A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death

Hailed by the critics and lauded by readers for its riotously funny and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, "Vernon God Little" was an international sensation when

• UPC: 19602958
• Rating: 3.389

Command and General Staff Officer Education for the 21st Century Examining the German Model - eBook

Education has been the foundational cornerstone to every profession and continues to be so in the 21st Century. As a profession, the military is obligated to conduct not only training but also education of the

• UPC: 954359111