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A Novel
by Ramona Ausubel
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by Ray Nayler
Published May 2026
Read ReviewsIn Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect.
by Sofi Oksanen
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsFrom the acclaimed author of Purge ("a stirring and humane work of art" The New Republic) comes a riveting, chillingly relevant new novel of occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Eastern Europe.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsA brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences.
by Tamas Dobozy
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsFrom celebrated short-story writer Tamas Dobozy, Siege 13 is a powerful testament to war's ability to carefully and thoroughly decimate the human spirit.
by Sarah McCoy
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsA routine interview between a reporter and an elderly baker brings out memories of darker times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII. As their lives become more intertwined, all are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of the past and seek out the courage to forgive.
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
by Brigid Pasulka
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsWhimsical, wise, beautiful, magical, and sometimes even heartbreaking, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True weaves together two remarkable stories, reimagining half a century of Polish history through the legacy of one unforgettable love affair.
by David Benioff
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsA writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds; an intimate coming-of-age tale with an utterly ...
by Mark Slouka
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsThe Visible World is an evocative, powerfully romantic novel about a son's attempt to understand his mother's past, a search that leads him to a tragic love affair and the heroic story of the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi by the Czech resistance.
by Mary Doria Russell
Published Nov 2005
Read ReviewsSet in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, Russell's ambitious and engrossing novel tells the little known story of how Italian citizens saved more than 43,000 Jews during the last 20 months of WWII.
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Mar 2003
Read ReviewsLit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history in this exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving debut.
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