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Explore Europe through
these fiction and non-fiction new and notable titles. From the true
story of a woman in Berlin during World War II to a fictionalized United
Kingdom that separates its citizens by temperament to the story of an
African American man who goes to the Netherlands in search of his mother
and the story of a British man who lives in France for a year, these
books are almost as good as a Eurorail pass. (Click on the book cover or title to link to library holdings information.)
This book details the true account of a woman in Berlin during eight weeks in 1945 when the Russians entered the city at the end of World War II. Few war biographies cover the experiences of women in occupied cities. The author and many other women (estimates put it at one million throughout Germany) were raped repeatedly by the Russian soldiers during this time. Food shortages, Allied bombings and looting made life in Berlin unrecognizable to its citizens and details of concentration camps and Hitler's suicide don't even make it to the news-starved people in the author's world.
At age 8, Matthew Micklewright is awakened in the middle of the night, taken from his parents and transported to a boy's home. There he discovers that his country has been divided into four with its citizens being separated into the different regions according to temperament. A new family is found for Matthew, a sanguine/red country citizen. His name is changed to Thomas Parry to reflect this change. As an adult, Parry is offered a job with the government. During a visit to the phlegmatic/blue country for a conference, his views of the divided kingdom change forever.
After his father dies, Abel, a recovering alcoholic, travels from Harlem, New York to Haarlem, Netherlands in search of the mother he never met. Along the way he meets Sophie, another recovering addict who helps him discover the power of love and family.
This hilarious novel details a year in the life of 27-year-old Paul West who is hired by a French company to open a chain of British tearooms. From his dating life to his work world, Clarke describes the things a newcomer must get used to in France and offers tips for survival to his readers.
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