Chronological Period/1940's
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The Violinist of Auschwitz
$13.99 Read moreBased on the unforgettable true story of Alma Ros?, this novel brings to life one of history’s most fearless, inspiring, and courageous heroines.
In Auschwitz, every day is a fight for survival. Alma- Author: Midwood, Ellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1538741148
- Language: English
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The Prisoner of Heaven
$18.99 Add to cart“A deep and mysterious novel full of people that feel real. . . .An enthralling read and a must-have for your library. Zaf n focuses on the emotion of the reader and doesn’t let go.” — Seattle Post-I
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ruiz Zafon, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 006220629X
- Language: English
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Good Night, Mr. Tom
$12.99 Add to cartNow featuring gorgeous new cover art, this classic, powerfully emotional, award-winning novel is the perfect read to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
London is poised on th
- Author: Magorian, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0062899953
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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26 Ways to Come Home for the Holidays: A Christmas Season Novella
$9.99 Add to cartGET INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT WITH ’26 WAYS TO GO HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, ‘ A FRIENDS-TO-LOVERS HOLIDAY ROMANCE
It’s Thanksgiving 1942, and Stella West, the first-ever head of holidays for Hanover’s Depar
- Author: Joy, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218213664
- Language: English
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Spies of No Country: Israel’s Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad
$21.99 Add to cart“Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing.” —The New York Times Book Review
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including dup- Author: Friedman, Matti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1643750437
- Language: English
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Out Stealing Horses
$17.00 Add to cartA bestseller and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, now in paperback from Graywolf Press for the first time
We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to th- Author: Petterson, Per
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978444
- Language: English
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The Flight Portfolio
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Invisible Bridge comes a gripping tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage filled with “suspense and tragedy, unexpecte… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Orringer, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0307949710
- Language: English
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Secrets of a Summer Night
$9.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Devil in Disguise, the first book in her beloved Wallflowers series.
The Wallflowers: four young ladies at the side of the ballroom make a pact to help eac
- Series: Wallflowers #1
- Author: Kleypas, Lisa
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0063142619
- Language: English
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The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
$19.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix Series, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a dazzling story about mothers and daughters, secrets and betrayals, and a binding curse.
The #1 International Bestseller Gabriela’s mother Luna- Author: Yishai-Levi, Sarit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 125084682X
- Language: English
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Those Devils in Baggy Pants
$22.95 Add to cartThose Devils in Baggy Pants was originally published in 1951 by Ross S. Carter, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII. Carter, one of the three surviving members of his original platoon a
- Author: Fraley, David Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1954978219
- Language: English
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Stepping on the Cracks
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1944, when her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret changes her mind about the school bully, Gordy, after she discovers he is hiding his own brother, a deserter.
A… [more below]
- Author: Hahn, Mary Downing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547076606
- Language: English
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The Painted Bird
$18.00 Add to cartJerzy Kosinski’s mythic, master-work of a shattered post-War Europe.
Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Kosinski’s story follows a d
- Series: Kosinski, Jerzy
- Author: Kosinski, Jerzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: August 09 1995
- ISBN10: 080213422X
- Language: English
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The Sheltering Sky
$14.99 Add to cartThis 50th anniversary edition of The Sheltering Sky, one of the great novels of the 20th century, features an original review of the book by Tennessee Williams. Stands head and shoulders above most ot… [more below]
- Author: Bowles, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: September 20 2005
- ISBN10: 006083482X
- Language: English
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Lost Souls of Leningrad
$17.95 Add to cartA widowed violinist and her teenage granddaughter are trapped in wartime Leningrad while the men they love fight to break Hitler’s grip in this epic tale of struggle and survival, of devotion, duty, a… [more below]
- Author: Parry, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1647422671
- Language: English
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
$18.95 Add to cartWhy? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift an
- Author: Hayes, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 393355462
- Language: English
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The War That Saved My Life
$18.99 Add to cart* Newbery Honor Book
* #1 New York Times Bestseller
* Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award
* Forbes 25 Top Historical Fiction Books Of All Time selection
* Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Books… [more below]- Author: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0803740816
- Language: English
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Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)
$31.95 Add to cartFor nine months in Auschwitz, eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity by playing piano on imaginary keyboards. After liberation, Eva and the five remaining Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, journey home,
- Author: Cycon, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888240779
- Language: English
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
$26.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled- Series: Liberation Trilogy #3
- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1250037816
- Language: English
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (National Book Award Finalist)
$17.99 Add to cartMost Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War is New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin’s award-winning nonfiction account of an ordinary man who wielded the most
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 125018083X
- Language: English
