Holocaust | Holocaust
May.18.2009
A young French girl comes to America in 1947, after the Second World War. Her parents and sister have been killed at Auschwitz concentration camp. She must learn to make it in America among relatives who are unfriendly, and a language that bewilders her. Funny and poignant, the reader follows her...
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Mar.23.2009
The Holocaust played out in microcosm on a tiny island in the English Channel allowed to be occupied by the Germans. The little-known Surrealist artists/lovers/Resistance propagandists Claude Cahun (Lucille Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe) feature prominently. The behavior of the...
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Jan.06.2009
Synopsis
"Fry was the American Schindler...with desperate exiles, menacing Nazis, forged documents and midnight escapes...[think] Casablanca."
--The New York Times
Varian Fry, the first of only three Americans honored at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, was a young New Yorker who...
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Dec.27.2008
Poetry about visionaries who survive hard times including pioneering jazz musicians and labor organizers in Guatamala and the United States taking on the impssible. The book pays homage to survivors of the horror in Chile of the 1970s, Guatemala and El Salvador in the 1980s, and refugees from Nazi...
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Dec.27.2008
Poetry about three generations of Jewish women: immigrant grandmothers who clawed their way out of sweatshops; Anne Frank after she was arrested, and the author's surviving a harrowing illegal abortion
Cover photo of Julia Stein by David Brown
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Nov.26.2008
From graphic designer Chip Kidd comes a brilliant new novel about advertising, electro-shock torture, potato chips, murder, powdered milk, suicide, shoes with buckles, crippling despair, and giant dogs. And the Holocaust.
Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, Happy lands his first job as a...
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Jul.31.2008
On the morning of May 10, 1940, the last thing Sofie Rijnfeld expected was the sky to start raining German paratroopers. She and Jan, her husband of 3 years, were living contentedly in Amsterdam with Jan's six daughters. Life held the promise of a bright future for the Rijnfelds, until the German...
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Jul.06.2008
Autobiographical companion to the novels by Elizabeth Rosner: THE SPEED OF LIGHT and BLUE NUDE
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Jun.22.2008
The endless conflict between sameness and difference is at the heart of Michael Lowenthal's novel The Same Embrace, in which identical twins Jacob and Jonathan battle themselves and one another to become individuals even as they are inextricably linked through genes, family, and history....
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May.16.2008
Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2001 by the Christian Science Monitor, THE DEADWOOD BEETLE is an emotionally charged story of love and redemption that carries readers from the dark days of World War II to modern-day New York City and traces the wrenching life of Dr. Tristan Martens, an entomologist...
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