Orem Library

Meeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love.

Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days finding and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the German army invaded. Her illegal work keeps her family afloat, and Hanneke also likes to think of it as a small act of rebellion against the Nazis. On a routine delivery,...

When his older sister Els, a Resistance fighter, is arrested by the Gestapo, thirteen-year-old Dirk takes his little sister, Anna, across the war-torn Netherlands seeking their father, who is also in the Dutch Resistance. Includes an interview with the author, discussion questions, and timeline.

Attending her high-school reunion at the request of her long-estranged friend, Cate, Ali Barba, a Sikh detective with the Metropolitan Police, suddenly finds herself investigating Cate's death after she and her husband are run down by a hit-and-run driver.

After spending a busy holiday season putting drug smugglers behind bars, CIA operative Cole Bridger is looking forward to spending a quiet Christmas in Vienna with his girlfriend and fellow operative, Isabelle Roberts. But when Isabelle is tasked with investigating a string of suspect financial transactions and redirects a suspicious package to a museum in Amsterdam, she inadvertently places Cole's cousins in the cross hairs of a drug smuggling ring....

By blocking a leaking hole in the dike, a young boy saves his town from destruction.

This abridged adaptation of Mary Mapes Dodge's classic tale about a boy who saves Holland from a disastrous flood is enlivened by Carle's bright and authentic collage illustrations. Booklist called this story "simple and smooth. . . . A story hour special".

"Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he finally makes it across the border to New France. There he begins his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster for the King of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to undermine the Dutch Hegemony has been banished from her homeland and captured by...

A do-nothing mouse doesn't lift a paw to help when Mother Goose is away at market day and Fox comes calling. Fox tricks his way into their home and carries off six of her seven goslings.

"In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain--a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape,...