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A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week—narrated by two very different women and punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a perpetually broken vacuum cleaner. Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned...

Kurz nachdem die Nationalsozialisten Polen überfallen haben, werden die elfjährige Rena und ihre Familie gezwungen, in das jüdische Ghetto von Krakau zu ziehen. Hunger und harte Arbeit bestimmen den Alltag, und Rena muss immer wieder mitansehen, wie Freund*innen und Familie deportiert werden. Durch eine glückliche Fügung kommen ihre Mutter und sie in der Fabrik von Oskar Schindler unter. Ihre Namen landen auf der Liste, die später als "Schindlers Liste" weltweit bekannt werden wird, und sie überleben. Dieses Hörbuch ist Renas Zeitzeugenbericht, eindrücklich und bestürzend und doch auch voller Hoffnung auf bessere Zeiten.

For the readers of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls, inspired by the true story of the author’s great-grandmother’s journey during World War II, The Girl with the Silver Star is the extraordinary story of a mother’s love and will to survive during one of history’s darkest time periods. As a hailstorm of bombs begins to shatter the city of Minsk in Belarus, Raisa and her family run through the darkness of night to take cover. When Raisa, Abraham, and their daughters, Luba and Sofia, emerge from the bomb shelter, they find an unfamiliar city before them.

Agli inizi degli anni Quaranta, il maggiore delle SS Hans Lichtblau viene messo alla guida di un programma di ricerca che utilizza i prigionieri dei campi di concentramento come cavie, ma anche come assistenti, inquadrati nel Kommando Gardenia. Sullo sfondo degli esperimenti, la "soluzione finale del problema ebraico", l'avanzata nazista in Russia e la colonizzazione dei territori dell'Est, poi, inaspettata, la disfatta e la caduta di Berlino.

In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance. “A wonderfully imaginative, wholly enchanting novel of witness, survival, memory, and...

Wie viele Geheimnisse erträgt eine Familie? Krakau, im Frühjahr 1939. Alle Zeichen stehen auf Krieg, denn das Deutsche Reich treibt seine Angriffspläne auf Polen unbarmherzig voran. Die junge Marie aber beschäftigen ganz anderen Fragen: Wer ist ihre Mutter? Warum verschwand sie, als Marie ein Kleinkind war? Und warum verweigert ihr Vater, ein renommierter Arzt, jedes Gespräch über sie? Als sie die Ungewissheit nicht mehr aushält, entschließt Marie sich zu einem drastischen Schritt. Marie zog eine Haarnadel aus ihrem blonden Haar.

Mein Name ist Athanasius Pernath – glaube ich, ich kann mir dessen nicht gewiss sein, da ich angeblich – laut Auskunft meiner Freunde – früher mal wahnsinnig war. Da ich mich an meine Jugendzeit nicht mehr erinnere ist das nicht weiter schlimm. Was mich jedoch manchmal an meinem Verstand zweifeln lässt, sind Erlebnisse, bei welchen ich entweder einem Doppelgänger meiner Person begegne oder alte mythologisch-religiöse Sagen durchlebe, wobei ich heilige Legenden treffe, die eigentlich nicht existieren dürften.

From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award—Ronald H. Balson's An Affair of Spies tells of a spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb. Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical...

"I want everyone I know to read this book." --Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say For fans of The Warsaw Orphan and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. The start of WWII changed everything in Poland irrevocably--except for one man's capacity to love. September 1...

Forty-one years old, the last of her friends to marry, and down to a size 12, Lauren Leo is in her gown and about to tie the knot. There’s just one thing missing: the groom. With one blindsiding text, Lauren is unceremoniously dumped at the altar. In the aftermath, her mother is an endless well of unsolicited advice (Stay on your diet and freeze your eggs). Her sisters only add to the Great Humiliation: one is planted on Lauren’s couch while the other is too perfect.

Cuando la matriarca de la familia judía menos exitosa de Estados Unidos se cansa de su desgracia, consulta los textos místicos en busca de ayuda. Decidida a que su próximo nieto será un genio que cambiará su suerte, y convencida de que nadie en su clan es lo suficientemente inteligente como para criar a un genio por sí mismo, decide que el niño pasará de casa en casa para ganar su sabiduría colectiva.

From the author of The Matzah Ball comes a pitch-perfect romcom following a third-generation Jewish matchmaker who unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight... The perfect Jewish husband should be: A doctor or lawyer (preferably a doctor) Baggage-free (no previous...

From the bestselling author of The Collaborator comes a compelling story of betrayal, collusion, revenge, and redemption set in German-occupied Jersey during World War II. June 1940. `It was a perfect June evening that began with hope and ended in despair.' So begins the journal of Hugh Jackson...

From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the absurdity, the humor, and the tragedy of survivorship. "Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest." –George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo A...

“An unforgettable story of female strength, hope and friendship. This collaborative work is magnificent—a true revelation!” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman with the Blue Star “A brilliant story brimming with unexpected friendships and family ties...

“Hilarious and endearing...Shmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart.” —The New York Times In this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret...

The author of the “unforgettable story of strength, love, and survival” (Jillian Cantor, USA TODAY bestselling author) The Light After the War returns with a sweeping and evocative story of love and purpose in WWII Italy. Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when...

Inspired by true events in World War II Latvia, an emotionally charged novel of sacrifice, trauma, resilience, and survival, as witnessed by three generations of women. On one extraordinary day in 1940, Miriam Talan’s comfortable life is shattered. While she gives birth to her second child, a...

"It is impossible to resist this novel's wit, grace, and charm." --Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia A smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment; a triumphant and beautifully executed recasting of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence...

"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But 17-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books - and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for.

Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime....