The Flight Portfolio
By: Julie Orringer
3.78
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occ…
Want to Read $ 9.99"But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth?"-Julie Orringer, The Flight Portfolio
"But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth?"-Julie Orringer, The Flight Portfolio
"It all seemed grossly unfair. He wanted nothing at all to change"-Julie Orringer, The Flight Portfolio
"It all seemed grossly unfair. He wanted nothing at all to change"-Julie Orringer, The Flight Portfolio
If you liked the historical plot in The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer , here is a list of 15 books like this:
1. Fellow Travelers
By: Thomas Mallon
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed author of Bandboxand Dewey Defeats Truman-a searing new historical novel … read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
2. The Quiet Girl
By: Peter Høeg
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2007 The internationally acclaimed bestselling author of Smilla'… read more
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- fiction
3. Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
By: Rosemary Sullivan
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gesta… read more
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4. Surrender on Demand
By: Varian Fry , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, Varian Fry risked his life to smuggle thousands of refug… read more
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5. A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fry
By: None
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The story of Varian Fry, called the "real Rick" of Casablanca, is perhaps one of the most unknown, … read more
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6. 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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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
"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
7. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- historical
- war
- audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
8. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
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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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
11. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
12. The Flight Portfolio
By: Julie Orringer
3.78
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occ… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Julie Orringer's The Flight Portfolio book and Julie Orringer's The Flight Portfolio
- art
- lgbt
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
"But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth?"-Julie Orringer, The Flight Portfolio
"It all seemed grossly unfair. He wanted nothing at all to change"-Julie Orringer, The Flight Portfolio
"Nothing at all to change: what a thing to want in the midst of war."-Julie Orringer, The Flight Portfolio
"This is the Centre Americain de Secours. What is more American than wild hope?"-Julie Orringer, The Flight Portfolio
13. The Storm We Made
By: Vanessa Chan
3.87
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more
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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
14. 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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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
15. 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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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
"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
16. The Postmistress of Paris
By: Meg Waite Clayton
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Now an International bestseller, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Good Morning America B… read more
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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
"No one suspects American women of anything but needlepoint. Men so seldom imagine us capable of the things we're capable of."-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris
"Even in the darkest times at Camp des Milles, the men kept making art and music, literature, theatre. It was how they stayed alive. How they helped the world right itself."-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris
17. Wandering through Life: A Memoir
By: Donna Leon
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Theinternationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells herown adventurous life… read more
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- audiobook
18. The Last Masterpiece
By: Laura Morelli
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two women—a German photographer and an American stenographer—… read more
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- art
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
19. An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
By: Matthew Stewart
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first Ame… read more
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20. Beyond the Point
By: Claire Gibson
4.12
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Three women are brought together in an enthralling story of friendship, heartbreak, and resilience.… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
21. Annelies
By: David R. Gillham
3.77
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and deeply humane new novel that asks the question: What if Anne Frank survived the Hol… read more
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- historical
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
