Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner– 454 pages Book Blurb: In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While the feisty Esther...
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Between Shades Of Gray by Ruth Sepetys
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys – 344 pages Book Blurb: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the...
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi – 305 pages Book Blurb: Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is...
Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House by Katheen Grissom – 370 pages Book Blurb: This new, stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white...
I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows - 272 pages Book Blurb: Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma...
The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff– 368 pages ARC from Netgalley and Mira Book Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier during the occupation of her native Holland. Heartbroken over the loss of the baby she was...
The Nix by Nathan Hill
The Nix by Nathan Hill– 628 pages Book Blurb: It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared,...
The One Man by Andrew Gross
The One Man by Andrew Gross– Audio Version Book Blurb: 1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendel and his family were trying to flee Paris when they were caught and forced onto a train, along with thousands of other Jewish families. At the other end of the long, torturous...
Mischling by Affinity Konar
Mischling by Affinity Konar– 344 pages Book Blurb: Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new...
Protecting Paige by Deby Eisenberg
Protecting Paige by Deby Eisenberg – 336 pages Book Blurb: It is the still innocent year of 1962, and twelve-year-old Paige Noble awakens in a hospital room in Chicago. She has no memory of the random act of gang violence that has left her injured and orphaned. As she...