World War II | World War II
Sep.09.2011
Through personal accounts, Susan Bulanda has compiled a collection of stories about the pets of the Holocaust victims. This is a unique look at a part of history that has not been told before. The book is a wonderful example of the human/animal bond. Accounts come from Hungary, Poland, Belgium,...
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Aug.28.2011
Velva Jean Hart, the fiercely independent heroine of Jennifer Niven's debut novel, Velva Jean Learns to Drive, returns in a captivating adventure that literally sends her soaring. Bridling under the limitations faced by a woman in rural Appalachia and fueled by the memory of her late Mama...
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Aug.26.2011
Lovers and Fugitives is a spellbinding tale of suspense set amidst the horrors of the Holocaust, an inspiring tribute to the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adverstity, and a tender story of real people, locked in a common stuggle, who redefine the word love. In this, Gabriella Mautner's...
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Jun.22.2011
Warsaw, 1941--an exhausted and elderly psychiatrist named Erik Cohen makes his way home to the Jewish ghetto after being interned in a Nazi labor camp. Yet only one visionary man—Heniek Corben— can see him and hear him. Heniek soon realizes that Cohen has become an ibbur—a spirit. But how and...
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May.25.2011
After her father died, Leila Levinson found horrifying photographs his World War II Army trunk that revealed he had been among the liberators of Nordhausen Concentration Camp at the end of the war. Realizing these photographs might be clues to her father's emotional detachment and silence,...
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May.12.2011
See Ya is a story that crosses generations and histories.
Lives are often stories not yet written down. Not always ended, either, which can fuse the living and telling into a path not always clear. Some tales take a long time to tell, especially when they start in 1944 and flow into 1996, and...
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Apr.06.2011
This book, which won the John Cairdi Prize for Poetry, selected by B. H. Fairchild, is inspired by historical situations and accounts letters, oral histories, news reports, etc., of individuals from both sides of the Pacific theater of World War II, including the home fronts. Barnstone writes...
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Mar.01.2011
When a young blacksmith s apprentice named Johann discovers that his homeland is contained entirely within a small music box, it s up to him to protect the only home he s ever known. With the help of an impossibly ancient knight, his best friend, Brigitta, and his trusty homemade sword, Johann...
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Jan.18.2011
With twenty-seven missions as a pilot under his belt, Del Aucoin is a seasoned veteran of WWII. But the strain of flying dangerous bomber missions over Germany has taken its toll, and Del chooses to stop flying before he gets himself and his crew killed. Del's superiors give him his orders: fly...
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Dec.08.2010
Tom Gregory is one of the "ninety-day-wonder" lieutenants in WWII. A knee injury keeps him state-side, where he becomes the commanding officer of an Italian prisoner of war camp in a tiny Oklahoma town. Tom falls in love with WAC lieutenant Connie Ballard and together they try to juggle...
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