Belva PlainA prosperous family in Berlin cannot imagine what the future holds when they adopt an orphan named Lore, creating an older sister for their daughter Caroline. In 1939 Caroline...

Robert Harris   Fluke Kelso was once a scholar of promise, but like so many in the highly competitive world of academia, he's never delivered. But one night, at a...

VS Alexander Drawing on the true story of the White Rose—the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime—The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in...

Lisa Barr After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual--and very secret--assignment. Dan...

Anthony Doerr 'Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.'For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The...

Mark Sarvas One of Entertainment Weekly's 20 Books to Read in March and one of TimeOut's 11 Books You'll Want to Binge-Read This MonthA son learns more about his father...

Diane Ackerman In war-torn Warsaw, a zookeeper and his wife refuse to surrender...Now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl, Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife is based...

James MacManus Berlin, 1938. Newly-appointed military attache Noel Macrae and his extrovert wife Primrose arrive at the British Embassy. Prime Minister Chamberlain is intent on placating Nazi Germany, but Macrae...

Hans Keilson A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners—Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim...

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...

Pat Barker In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII.'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards...

Helen Epstein A journalist searches for her mother's historical roots after her death--from the nineteenth century, to the holocaust, and beyond. November 1, 1998 by Holmes and Meier edition