The Last Checkmate by Gabriella Saab – 384 pagesBook Blurb: Maria Florkowska is many things: daughter, avid chess player, and, as a member of the Polish underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a young woman brave beyond her years. Captured by the Gestapo, she...
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The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel - 356 pages ARC from Netgalley and Gallery Books for an honest review Book Blurb: Book Blurb: After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman...
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer – 416 pages ARC from Netgalley and Graydon House for an honest reviewBook Blurb: In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has...
The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff
The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff – 336 pages ARC from Park Row and the author for an honest review. Book Blurb: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate...
Half Life by Jillian Cantor
Half Life by Jillian Cantor - 416 pages ARC from Harper Perennial and the author for an honest reviewBook Blurb: In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was...
The Book Of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel –400 pages ARC from Gallery Books for an honest review. Book Blurb: Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She...
The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner
The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner – 304 pages Finished copy from Flatiron Books in exchange for an honest review Book Blurb: As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róża and her 5-year-old daughter, Shira, flee, seeking shelter in a neighbor’s barn....
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer – 448 pages ARC courtesy of Netgalley and Graydon House Book Blurb: Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi...
The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable
The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable – 515 pages ARC courtesy of St. Martin's Press in exchange for an honest review. Book Blurb: Based on a real story - in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts to work as a maid for one of...
We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter – 416 pages Book Blurb: It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new...