All that counts

By Oswald, Georg M..
New York Grove Press 2001 .
166p. , Thirty-something Thomas Schwarz is certain that he is soon to become department head of Liquidations and Foreclosures at the bank where he works. But after fumbling a particularly byzantine property case, his life begins to unravel: his female boss glibly fires him and his wife walks out.Suddenly acquainted with the giddy thrill of a life unmoored, he falls in with a cocaine-fueled crowd of money launderers who set out to exploit him. But when the gang is busted, Thomas seizes his chance to escape with the profits and, in a final breathless move, exposes once and for all just how precarious the trappings of society really are.. 14x21cm.
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My Father's Country: The story of a German family

By Bruhns, Wibke.
New York : Random House, 2008 .
334p. , In August 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth was executed for his part in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old at the time. Decades later, watching a documentary about the events of July 20, images of her father in the Third Reich People's Court appear on screen - and she realizes she never knew him. In My Father's Country, Bruhns tells of her search for her father. 13x19cm.
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