World War II | World War II
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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Oct.25.2010
MURIEL’S WAR: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
The captivating story of a courageous woman who left a life of privilege for a world of danger and international intrigue.
Born into a wealthy meatpacking dynasty in Chicago and educated at Wellesley, raven-haired beauty Muriel Gardiner...
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Sep.08.2010
Growing up in Prussia (East Germany) was a wonderful experience for a young boy born into a Prussian diplomats family. That all changed when World War II began and at the age of fourteen, Gerd Brandt was swept up into a Russian POW camp and barely stayed alive working as a camp medic. This story...
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Jun.27.2010
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...
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Jun.04.2010
Julie Orringer's astonishing first novel — eagerly awaited since the publication of her heralded best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater ("Fiercely beautiful." The New York Times) — is a grand love story and an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war...
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Apr.23.2010
At the end of The Civilization Loop, disaster was averted. The great myths and legends of our world were now unlocked and the mystery of 2012 was finally solved. But in the wake of enlightenment, a new myth was born. Just who was the rogue time traveler Willis October, and did he ever truly exist?...
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Feb.17.2010
Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at its seams. The Third Reich’s obsession with record-keeping and its strong reliance on the occult has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribes--translators responsible for...
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Dec.07.2009
Not only was it a crime to marry a German, it was also a sin to date one as a Jew back in the days when Hitler had the bible of Nazism, the horrifying years of the Holocaust.
The heart often know no rules, feelings has no eyes and could easily cross boundaries. Being the daughter of a German SS...
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Oct.26.2009
Three generations of mothers and daughters take center stage, with 20th century events as backdrop, in this novel of depth and humor, with a touch of magic realism, spotlighting the power of music—from classical to jazz to rock and international folk—and the tug between ethnic loyalty and global...
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Sep.28.2009
Through eyewitness accounts based on hundreds of interviews with crew members; personal diaries, notes, and letters; and each cutter's logbooks and patrol reports Walling plunges you into the thick of the battle, re-creating some of the most desperate encounters, heroic rescues, and harrowing...
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