Leo Spitzer In the 1930s, thousands of people fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe found refuge in Latin America. But by late 1938, Bolivia was one of the few places in the entire...

Jamie Ford 1986, The Panama Hotel The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the personal belongings...

Author: Hadley Freeman A writer investigates her family’s secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations.Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara lived in...

Ka-Tzetnik 135633House of Love is in a very real sense the sequel to House of Dolls, the five million copy bestseller which has been translated into 15 languages.To those who...

Jing-Jing Lee A beautiful, stunningly ambitious tale of endurance, identity, and memory, for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones.Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down...

Guy Walters Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among...

Anne HolmThe story of a young boy's journey through Europe after escaping from the camp where he had lived all his life. Sea, mountains and flowers, the colours of Italy,...

Anouk Markovitz A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular sect of Hasidic Jews, the Satmar.         ...

Livia Bitton-JacksonWhat is death all about?What is life all about?So wonders thirteen-year-old- Elli Friedmann, just one of the many innocent Holocaust victims, as she fights for her life in a...

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Hans Peter Richter   From winner of Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Friedrich and for readers of Number the Stars  and If I Should Die Before I Wake...

Rochelle AlexandraIn Alexa’s Shoes – a dramatic, uplifting true story of a young girls struggle to overcome great odds to survive through WWII.In the autumn of 1940, thirteen-year-old Alexa’s happy...