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In Mozart's shadow

his sister's story
2008
In eighteenth-century Europe, Anna "Nannerl" Mozart, a musician whose talent and dedication is overshadowed by that of her gifted younger brother, Wolfgang, struggles to win the notice of her father and patrons who might further her career, despite her gender.

The musician's daughter

2009
In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.

A song for summer

2007
Eighteen-year-old Ellen is surprised by the unique surroundings of the Hallendorf School in Austria, where she discovers an eccentric world filled with wild children, experimental dancers, a tortoise on wheels, and Marek, a part-time gardener and fencing teacher whom Ellen is attracted to, but when Hitler's Reich threatens the school, Ellen realizes the dangers their love faces.

Hitler's Vienna

a portrait of the tyrant as a young man
2010
Explores the time Adolf Hitler spent in Vienna, detailing his efforts to expand as an artist and revealing how his failure prompted his exploration of Vienna's underbelly. Examines how this turn of events prompted the development of his views on conservatism, anti-Semitism, and racial prejudice.

Still alive

a Holocaust girlhood remembered
2001
Ruth Kluger chronicles the experiences she had while growing up in Vienna during the Nazi occupation and explains how the time she spent in concentration camps impacted her life.

Vienna

1998
Describes the history, culture, daily life, food, people, sports, and points of interest in Vienna, the capital and largest city in Austria.

Fly away home

1975
A young girl recalls what life was like for her family in Vienna toward the end of World War II.

A song for summer

1998
Young Englishwoman Ellen Carr, a housemother at an unorthodox boarding school in Vienna, has made a happy life for herself and the other workers and students she has taken under her wing, but the idyllic world she has created is disrupted when Hitler begins his reign of terror.

Justice, not vengeance

1989
A biography of the "Nazi hunter" who brought many war criminals to justice after World War II.

Thunder at twilight

Vienna 1913-1914
1989
A history of Vienna in the two years before World War I.

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