Celebrate German Heritage Month by learning about Germany and German communities. This complex, resilient nation at the heart of Europe is home to eighty-four million citizens. Kingston Frontenac is home to 1,000 German speakers, while over 300,000 people across Canada are fluent in German.
Hansel and Gretel by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
When Hansel and Gretel find themselves lost in the forest, they discover a cottage made of sweet treats. But the homeowner is not so sweet! How will they escape? Ages 5-8.
Germany by Wiley Blevins
As one of the biggest countries in Europe, Germany has long been an influential world leader. Join Johann as he leads readers on a tour of his homeland and shows them what it is like to live in Germany, from what kinds of houses people live into what they eat and what they study in school. Ages 8-9.
The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall--but even to the balloon makers, Ellie's time travel is a mystery. Ages 12+.
German-English Visual Bilingual Dictionary
This is the perfect pocket reference for those learning German, and you'll want to ensure this helpful tool is packed when you next travel. With over 6,000 fully illustrated terms arranged by theme, getting to grips with the German language has never been easier.
Why Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-up Country by John Kampfner
Mixing personal journey and anecdote with compelling empirical evidence, this is a searching and entertaining exploration of the country many in the West still love to hate. Raising important questions for our post-2016 landscape, Kampfner asks why Germany has become a model for others to emulate while the West still languishes in wartime nostalgia and fails to tackle contemporary challenges.
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the world's most powerful—and elusive—woman.
Crabwalk by Günter Grass
The Wilhelm Gustloff, A German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some 9,000 people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster. Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together the tragic events.
The Shortest History of Germany by J.M. Hawes
A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicentre of world events time and again: the Reformation, World Wars, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871 — yet today, Germany is the world's fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of liberal democracy.
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an "ordinary young man" who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years
The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by Thomas Childers
The Nazis transformed a dysfunctional democracy into a totalitarian state within six months and began the inexorable march to World War II and the Holocaust. Childers brings these fraught times to life: the Nazi's rise to power and their use and abuse of power once they achieved it.
Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children by Sara Zaske
Achtung Baby reveals that today's Germans know something that American parents don't (or have perhaps forgotten) about raising kids with "selbstandigkeit" (self-reliance), and provides many new and practical ideas American parents can use to give their children the freedom they need to grow into responsible, independent adults.
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
This work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in false piety and infected with a "slave morality."
