Glynis PetersAs the Nazis' relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew.Elenor knows...

Ariel BurgerWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD—BIOGRAPHYElie Wiesel was a towering presence on the world stage—a Nobel laureate, activist, adviser to world leaders, and the author of more than...

Philip StaalIt was 1942 in Amsterdam when Isaac and Anna Staal began noticing their Jewish neighbors disappearing. Some were taken away by Dutch police. Some vanished in the middle of...

Adam P Frankel Chica go Tribune Notable Book of 2019 A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to...

Kate AtkinsonWINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARDA God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd – would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather...

Paulluna SimonsThe Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic SagaThrough years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America,...

Kathryn Hughes Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way. Discover the Number...

Kirsty Manning A World War II story of female friendship, longing and sacrifice through war and loss, bringing together the present and the past.A forgotten manuscript that threatens to unravel...

Chaim ShapiroHe left war-wracked Poland with his mother's tearful parting words ringing in his ears, "Go, my son", she urged him. And he went. In this timeless, spell-binding autobiographical, Chaim...

Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth HerzogOver many hundreds of years the Shtetl, the small-town Jewish community of Eastern Europe, developed a way of life uniquely its own, bearing witness to the...

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...

David ChotjewitzIn 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in...