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by Derek B. Miller
Published Jan 2025
Read ReviewsFrom the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See.
by Katherine Arden
Published Jan 2025
Read ReviewsDuring the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale.
by Elana K. Arnold
Published Oct 2024
Read ReviewsFrom Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania.
by Jennifer Rosner
Published Mar 2024
Read ReviewsFrom Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II.
by Susan Meissner
Published Mar 2024
Read ReviewsA heartrending story about a young mother's fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune that tear them apart by the USA Today bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the War.
by Kristin Harmel
Published May 2021
Read ReviewsInspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this unforgettable historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the "epic and heart-wrenching World War II tale" (Alyson Noel, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Winemaker's ...
by Alex George
Published May 2021
Read ReviewsTold over the course of a single day in 1927, The Paris Hours takes four ordinary people whose stories, told together, are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.
by Jennifer Rosner
Published Mar 2021
Read ReviewsIn Poland, as World War II rages, a mother hides with her young daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives.
by Alice Hoffman
Published Sep 2020
Read ReviewsIn 1941, during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman.
by Julie Orringer
Published Jun 2020
Read ReviewsThe long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.
by Abigail DeWitt
Published Dec 2019
Read ReviewsSet in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family, whose lives are all touched by the tragic events surrounding the D-Day bombings in Normandy.
by Romain Gary, Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Published Sep 2019
Read ReviewsRomain Gary's bittersweet final masterpiece, a novel of courage and resistance - never before in English.
by Daniel Mason
Published Sep 2019
Read ReviewsBy the international bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a sweeping and unforgettable love story of a young doctor and nurse at a remote field hospital in the First World War.
by Affinity Konar
Published May 2017
Read Reviews"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II.
by Stewart O'Nan
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsFrom master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War
by Kristin Hannah
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2015 BookBrowse Fiction Award
Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with great monstrosities, but also great humanity and strength, a novel that will have readers talking long after they turn the last page.
by Chris Cleave
Published Mar 2017
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Little Bee, a spellbinding novel about three unforgettable individuals thrown together by war, love, and their search for belonging in the ever-changing landscape of WWII London.
by Helen Simonson
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsThe bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love and war that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set.
by Esther Freud
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsMr. Mac and Me is the story of an unlikely friendship, and a vivid portrait of one of the most brilliant and misunderstood artists of his generation.
by Audrey Magee
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA much-anticipated debut from a remarkable new talent in Irish fictiona terrifyingly intimate story of a war marriage caught up in the calamity of World War II
by Martin Amis
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsPowered by both wit and compassion, and in characteristically vivid prose, Martin Amis's unforgettable new novel excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul.
by Kimberly Elkins
Published Jun 2015
Read ReviewsA vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller.
by Cara Hoffman
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsA novel about war and homecoming, love and duty, and an impassioned look at the effects of war on womenas soldiers and caregivers, both at home and on the front lines.
by Simon Van Booy
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsThis gripping, emotional story intertwines the stories of several compelling characters - one by one, through seemingly random acts of selflessness, they discover the vital parts they have played in each other's lives, a realization that shatters the illusion of their separateness.
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 Monique Charlesworth
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsEvokes wartime lives and places with astonishing immediacy and in an utterly unforgettable way, from the point of view of a young Jewish girl and a boy who struggles with his place in the Hitler Youth.
by Sebastian Faulks
Published Jul 2000
Read ReviewsSet in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war.
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