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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.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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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,...
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English
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All the children in a small Dutch village are eager to win the silver skates that are the prize in an upcoming skating race, but Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel can't compete because they are too poor to afford steel skates and all their time is spent caring for their sick father--until circumstances make it possible that their dreams might come true.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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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.
9) Storm horse
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with the local bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl--until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea and discovers a new purpose in caring for his charge....
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English
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A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women--two sisters and their mother--in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-- and vanishes. Amy is too young to remember a...
12) In a dark wood
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After living 40 years in loneliness, Holocaust survivor Jacob Noah is killed in a car accident, only to descend into an abyss reminiscent of Dante's Inferno, where he learns about the meaning of his own life and the tragedies he has experienced.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1974.
Language
English
Description
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".
15) The rising
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Series
Alchemy wars volume 2
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"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,...
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London author Charlie Howard's career as a suspense novelist intersects a little too closely with his side business as a thief for a discreet clientele after he agrees to steal two small monkey figurines for a mysterious American who offers a substantial fee, and arrives to find his client beaten nearly to death.
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