Leah Janeczko
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Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she'll find refuge there. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go...
2) Lost on me
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"Already a bestseller and award-winner in Italy, Lost on Me is a burningly witty coming-of-age novel of a young woman in a wildly eccentric family from one of Italy's most celebrated young writers working today. In this distinctly contemporary, irreverent, and hilariously inverted bildungsroman, award-winning Italian author Veronica Raimo transforms neurosis, sex, and family disaster into brilliant comedy reminiscent of Fleabag and Portnoy's Complaint....
3) Glowrushes
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Artist Sakumat and eleven-year-old chronically ill Madurer forge a beautiful friendship as the painter brings landscapes to life in the boy's windowless rooms.
6) City of wind
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In their continuing quest to save the world from evil forces, Mistral, Elettra, Harvey, and Sheng meet again in Paris, where they must search for the mysterious veil of Isis reportedly hidden in the heart of the city.
8) Ring of fire
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Four seemingly unrelated children are brought together in a Rome hotel where they discover that they are destined to become involved in an ancient mystery involving a briefcase full of artifacts that expose them to great danger.