Finding Home: Hungary, 1945
By: Dean Cycon
4.72
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
For nine months in Auschwitz, eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity by playing piano on imag…
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1. Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman
By: Farideh Goldin
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Farideh Goldin was born to her fifteen-year-old mother in 1953 and into a Jewish community living i… read more
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3. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
4. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
5. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
6. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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7. The Underground Library
By: Jennifer Ryan
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more
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8. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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10. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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11. Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
By: Donna Leon
4.09
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly in… read more
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"He slowed his pace to hers, and they walked automatically, neither of them having to hesitate about where to turn or which bridge to take: the unconscious navigation of the average Venetian is surpas…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"In Campo Manin, the bodies of dead shops lined the way to the canal. There was a dead Middle Eastern fast-food place, a dead sporting goods shop, a dead clothes shop with two dead mannequins in the w…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"While del Balzo spoke, Brunetti turned off his ears and observed the speaking man, a habit he had developed during years of interrogating suspects, listening to witnesses, or sometimes hearing his ch…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"Have you been reading the letters of Rosa Luxemburg again, Donatella?’ Brunetti asked in a normal voice. She laughed her bright laugh, a sound he delighted in hearing because to be thought clever or …"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
12. The Porcelain Maker
By: Sarah Freethy
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An epic story of love, betrayal, and art that spans decades, through the horrors of World War II to… read more
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13. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
14. The Air Raid Book Club
By: Annie Lyons
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of he… read more
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"Quite. But Hedy has inherited her mother's skills as a seamstress. Very good. Tell her to come and see me. If you can't sew, can you knit? A little. Although I made my father a pair of socks once and…"-Annie Lyons, The Air Raid Book Club
15. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old
By: Hendrik Groen
3.94
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Bachman's A Man Called Ove: an irresistible, f… read more
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16. The House Is on Fire
By: Rachel Beanland
4.10
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction abou… read more
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"If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you."-Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire
17. Becoming Madam Secretary
By: Stephanie Dray
4.45
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestse… read more
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18. Kantika
By: Elizabeth Graver
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more
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"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
19. The Paris Notebook
By: Tessa Harris
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
‘Gripping, compelling and beautiful.’ Emma Cowell, author of The House in the Olive Grove A secret … read more
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20. We Must Not Think of Ourselves
By: Lauren Grodstein
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more
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"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
21. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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22. Children of the Stars
By: Mario Escobar
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From international bestselling author Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice, and hope am… read more
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"Innocence can only be lost once."-Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars
"Don’t confuse flags for patriots."-Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars
"True peace was a sleeping child’s face."-Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars
"What is hate? Like when you don’t like someone?"-Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars
23. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
24. The Goddess of Warsaw
By: Lisa Barr
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more
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25. When the World Goes Quiet
By: Gian Sardar
4.32
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist’s courageous journey is just beginning in a po… read more
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26. The Enemy Beside Me
By: Naomi Ragen
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about t… read more
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27. The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
By: Elizabeth White
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands o… read more
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"People are not fully defined by either the best or the worst of their actions"-Elizabeth White, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
28. The Light We Left Behind
By: Tessa Harris
4.13
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
England: 1944 When psychologist Maddie Gresham is sent a mysterious message telling her to repor… read more
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29. The Vienna Writers Circle
By: J.C. Maetis
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and powerful tale of resilience and courage set in Vienna on the brink of WWII, as two m… read more
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30. A Fire Sparkling
By: Julianne MacLean
4.44
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller. From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve … read more
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"Back in my day, people met in the real world, not on their telephones."-Julianne MacLean, A Fire Sparkling
"I wanted to believe that in the end, the universe would take care of us, and we would end up exactly where we were meant to be."-Julianne MacLean, A Fire Sparkling
"We could all drive ourselves mad thinking about what could have been. But life happens the way it happens, and there's no point wishing the past was any different. It will always be what it was, and …"-Julianne MacLean, A Fire Sparkling
31. Finding Home: Hungary, 1945
By: Dean Cycon
4.72
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
For nine months in Auschwitz, eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity by playing piano on imag… read more
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