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03380aam a2200553 i 4500 001 84DE43BC4BDD11EFBEB00D5B5DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240727010025 007 tb 008 240726s2024 meu ed 000 f eng d 010 $a 2024933828 020 $a 9798891642027 035 $a (OCoLC)1434246646 040 $a CPLPT $b eng $e rda $c CPLPT $d SILO 043 $a e-ge--- $a e-ge--- 084 $a LT $b REA 100 1 $a Reay, Katherine, $d 1970-, $e author. $4 aut. 245 14 $a The Berlin letters $h [Large type] : $b a Cold War novel / $c Katherine Reay. 250 $a Center Point Large Print edition. 264 1 $a Thorndike, Maine : $b Center Point Large Print, $c 2024. 300 $a 488 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 340 $n large print $2 rdafs. 365 $a 01 $b 44.00 500 $a Regular print version previously published by Harper Muse. 500 $a Includes discussion questions and author's note with background information. 520 $a "From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she's expected to quickly climb the career ladder at the CIA. But while her coworkers have moved on to thrilling Cold War assignments -- especially in the exhilarating era of the late 1980s -- Luisa's work remains stuck in the past decoding messages from World War II. Journalist Haris Voekler grew up a proud East Berliner. But as his eyes open to the realities of postwar East Germany, he realizes that the Soviet promises of a better future are not coming to fruition. After the Berlin Wall goes up, Haris finds himself separated from his young daughter and all alone after his wife dies. There's only one way to reach his family -- by sending coded letters to his father-in-law who lives on the other side of the Iron Curtain. When Luisa Voekler discovers a secret cache of letters written by the father she has long presumed dead, she learns the truth about her grandfather's work, her father's identity, and why she has never progressed in her career. With little more than a rudimentary plan and hope, she journeys to Berlin and risks everything to free her father and get him out of East Berlin alive. As Luisa and Haris take turns telling their stories, events speed toward one of the twentieth century's most dramatic moments."-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $b Central Intelligence Agency $x Officials and employees $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Cold War $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nineteen eighties $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Cryptography $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Letters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Prisoners $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fathers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a Berlin (Germany) $x History $y 1945-1990 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Cryptologic fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Spy fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 6 945 $a lpt 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20240809024452.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20240809023132.0 952 $l JBPC145 $d 20240803093311.0 952 $l ZOPC437 $d 20240730153413.0 952 $l RQPC397 $d 20240730010101.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20240727010051.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=84DE43BC4BDD11EFBEB00D5B5DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search