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...

Janel Lee BergSylvie Rosenberg escaped the holocaust—but can she escape the past?Angela Martino is haunted by events from her childhood and struggles to resolve her guilt.Can these two women from...

Liat Taiber Ben-David"A state is not handed to a people on a silver platter." -Haim Weizmann, first president of Israel, 1948. Four generations of strong, dedicated women live through one...

Vera BrittainFor nearly a decade I have wanted; with a growing sense of urgency; to write something which would show what the whole War and post-war period — roughly; from...

MJ ArlidgeEeny Meeny is the rocket-paced serial-killer thriller debut from M. J. Arlidge. Eeny Meeny was a Richard and Judy Book Club Summer 2014 pick.********The girl emerged from the woods,...

Sara GruenNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this thrilling new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water’s...

David Cordingly Patrick O' Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane's exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of...

Steve Sem-Sandberg Meet The Emperor of Lies: the award-winning novel from Steve Sem-Sandberg. Spanning three decades, this epic chronicle of a Jewish family in Poland tells a gripping story of...

Gerda Weissmann KleinAll But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko)...

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....

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...

Bernhard Schlink and Walter PoppAs a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private...