Donald StandwoodAlan Escher's only clue to Elio Cezale's mysterious withdrawal of the family savings prior to his death lies in a key to a Swiss safety-deposit box that sends him...

Helen DunmoreHelen Dunmore follows the lives of four ordinary people, united by love, trying to survive the siege of Leningrad in her powerful historical novel The Siege. Leningrad, September 1941....

Lily Gluck LernerOptimism deserted Lily Gluck thirty-six years ago in Aushwitz. She was then a sixteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, caught up in the horror we know now as the Holocaust.Her childhood...

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi TerritoryRoxane Van IperenThe unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II:...

Paul GrossmanIn the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, as Hitler and his National Socialist party angle to assume control of Germany, beautiful girls are seen sleepwalking through the streets....

Margaret LeroyAs World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for...

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of LondonOn Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia...

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Sidney SheldonLara Cameron is a famous powerful wealthy New York building developer who struggled from brutal poverty in Glace Bay, a banker who took her body as part of her...

Ralph Melnick As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know...

Aharon Appelfeld   When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been...

Jodi Picoult Some stories live forever . . .Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of...