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Wednesday, November 9 (continued)

5:30 p.m.

David King
Death in the City of Light:
The Serial Killer of
Nazi-Occupied Paris

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Dr. Marcel Petiot was a handsome physician,
refined and charismatic, greatly admired for
the free services he provided to the poor.
Imagine the reaction when he was arrested and
charged with murder many times over.

Evan Fallenberg
When We Danced on Water: A Novel

Death in the City of Light is the true story of
Dr. Petiot who, for a price, offered to help anyone looking to escape
Nazi-occupied France. His victims were often Jews, but also
resistance fighters and petty criminals. He guaranteed them all safe
passage to South America - but those who agreed to his services were
never seen again.

Drawing on new sources, including the formerly classified files on
Dr. Petiot, David King tells the tragic story of an evil serial killer, a
curious collection of victims and a trial unlike anything Paris had
ever experienced.

7:30 p.m.

Susanna Piontek
Have We Possibly Met Before? And Other Stories
(See description 3 p.m.previous page)

Using never-before-seen letters and diaries
from William Shirer's days in Germany, award-
winning reporter Steve Wick paints a brilliant
portrait of a terrible time and the journalist who
warned that Hitler had to be stopped or the world
would suffer terrible consequences.

When We Danced on Water is the tale two friends, many ghosts,
anguish, hope and life stories that span Warsaw
to Copenhagen, Berlin to Tel Aviv.

David Sclunahmann
The Double Life of Alfred Buber
The Double Life of Alfred Buber is a a

fictional "memoir" about an illicit love affair that
readers gradually realize is rather different than
the author confesses.

aLFRED BUHR

Ellen Feldman
Next To Love: A Novel

THE LONG NIGHT

WILLIAM L. SHINER AND.,41
THE RISE AND FALL

of the

THIRD REICH

STEVE WICK

When their men go off to war, Babe, Millie
and Grace, three childhood friends in Massachu-
setts, live on letters and in dread of the telegrams
that can bring only bad news. But as the war drags
on, and when peace breaks out, they experience
changes that move them in directions they never
dreamed possible.

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Next to
Love

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ELLEN FELDMAN'

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1 p.m.

Joseph Braude
The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship Murder,
and the Search for Truth in the Arab World
(See description 6:30 p.m.)

Thursday, November 10

DAY UNDERWRITTEN BY BARBARA & DOUGLAS BLOOM

Joseph Skibell
A Curable Romantic

THE
DOUBLE
LIFE OF

Alfred Buber is a pillar of his community, a
respected man with a secret and a secret life, until one day the two
cross and even he can no longer tell which is real and which is not.

Heading the CBS bureau in Berlin in the 1930s, Shirer regularly spoke
with everyone from the man on the street to Hitler's top aides. He was
there to report the stunning Nazi takeover of Austria and made the only
American eyewitness broadcast of the event. Forced to leave Germany
when the Nazis accused him of espionage, Shirer returned to cover the
Nuremberg trials and wrote what many regard as the finest history of
the Nazi regime: The Rise and the Fall of the Third Reich.

10 a.m.

WHEN
WE DANCED
O N W AT E

Teo is 85 and about to meet the extraordi-
nary Vivi. She is a waitress in Tel Aviv in her 40s.
When the two speak, Teo remembers. He remem-
bers his brilliant career as a choreographer and his life in wartime.
Vivi remembers, too. She remembers serving in the Israel Defense
Forces and an illicit relationship.

8 p.m.

Steve Wick
The Long Night: William L. Shirer
and the Rise and Fall of the
Third Reich

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5 p.m.

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Mira Bartok
The Memory Palace

CURABLE

ROMANTIC

Imagine Sigmund Freud standing in a
J OIEPH SKIBELL
room full of mirrors. Like those images, Freud
will be back as a powerful presence in the life
of the young Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn: a shy
young man, a bit lonely, dreamy and painfully
romantic. Then comes an extraordinary third
figure, that of Emma Eckstein, a patient of
Freud's, who is "cruel, vindictive, haughty, caustic, dismissive,
even murderous:' This latest novel from the author of A Blessing on
the Moon is filled with rich, exceedingly clever portraits and wildly
entertaining scenes.

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Norma Herr was an impossible mother.
A schizophrenic who was unpredictable and
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her two little girls. Finally, she ended up on the
streets, where she stayed for 17 years. Her
daughters changed their names and cut all ties
with their mother.

SARTOK

But they would reunite.

Children's author and artist Mira Bartok's memoir tells the story of
her mother, pianist Norma Herr, her sister and herself - three
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