Orem Library

Spanning 1906-1917, the second generation of the immigrant Crown family sends three dreamers to new leading industries. Starlet Fritzi 26 aims for glamorous Hollywood. Her brother Carl soars in the skies of wartorn Europe. His cousin Paul screens footage of German army atrocities. The trio experience ambition, passion, adventure, glory, and sacrifice.

Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball.

Drawing from personal experiences, the author tells the story of a German-Jewish family who had lived in Germany for three hundred years but who were forced to emigrate to England where Julia, Karl's wife, is determined to earn their passage to America, the ideal place to raise their two sons.

Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, Seven Lies tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a young East German, whose yearnings for love, glory, and freedom express themselves in a lifelong fantasy of going to America. By a series of increasingly dangerous maneuvers, he makes this fantasy come true, his past seemingly locked behind the Berlin Wall and a new life of unbounded bliss ahead of him. But then his world begins...

"Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth to her daughter, the dangers grow closer: a brick thrown...

Winnie Schulde can see splits: the moment when two possible outcomes diverge, one in her universe and one in another. She keeps it a secret; she knows the uses to which it might be put in the midst of a raging WWII. Her physicist father, made cruel by his grief after the loss of Winnie's mother, believes that if he pushes her hard enough, she can choose one split over another and maybe, just maybe, change their future and their past. When his experiment...

When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.