Kate Furnivalltaly, 1932 -- Mussolini's Italy is growing from strength to strength, but at what cost?One bright autumn morning, architect Isabella Berotti sits at a café in the vibrant centre...

Wayson Choy Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children...

Isabel AllendeIn 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their...

Steve Berry Four presidents of the United States have been assassinated--in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963 - each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for...

Avraham Azrieli In the wake of the 1995 Oslo Peace Accords, a wave of Palestinian terror hits Jewish targets. Israel responds with a clandestine war in Paris, Zurich, and Tel...

Avraham Azrieli On the eve of the Six Day War, in the divided city of Jerusalem, a young rabbinical scholar falls in love with a beautiful Mossad agent twice his...

Paul Scott In this first book of the Raj Quartet, we are introduced to an India where everything is in flux. WWII has shown that the British are not invincible...

Asher Kravitz Filtering the darkest, most dramatic period of modern Jewish history through the naive, often sage, perspective of a remarkable dog, The Jewish Dog offers readers a view of...

Amy TanFour mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco,...

Simon Raven The novelist Fielding Gray is commissioned by the BBC in 1962 to present an unvarnished account of Cyprus’s path to independence in the broadcast series "Today in History."...

Alan Judd Soon to be a major motion picture starring Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer, Lily James, and Jai Courtney.The Kaiser’s Last Kiss is a “crisp, adroit, and subtle tale...

Set in rural New York state at the turn of the twentieth century, superb new talent James Scott makes his literary debut with The Kept--a propulsive novel reminiscent of the...