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For fans of The Rose Code, this USA Today bestseller reveals a forgotten act of wartime defiance.
The Lost Book of Bonn
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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In 1946 Germany, librarian Emmy Clarke is tasked with restoring books stolen by the Nazis. When she finds a poetry collection inscribed with a cryptic message, she uncovers a hidden story of resistance, betrayal, and courage. For fans of The Rose Code, this USA Today bestseller reveals a forgotten act of wartime defiance.
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USA Today Bestseller
For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books.
Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn’t stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners, but for Emmy, who sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of pages, it feels just as important.
On Emmy’s first day at work, she finds a poetry collection by Rainer Maria Rilke, and on the title page is a handwritten dedication: “To Annelise, my brave Edelweiss Pirate.” Emmy is instantly intrigued by the story behind the dedication and becomes determined to figure out what happened.
The hunt for the rightful owner of the book leads Emmy to two sisters, a horrific betrayal, and an extraordinary protest against the Nazis that was held in Berlin at the height of the war. Nearly a decade earlier, hundreds of brave women gathered in the streets after their Jewish husbands were detained by the Gestapo. Through freezing rain and RAF bombings, the women faced down certain death and did what so few others dared to do under the Third Reich. They said no.
Emmy grapples with her own ghosts as she begins to wonder if she’s just chasing two more. What she finds instead is a powerful story of love, forgiveness, and courage that brings light to even the darkest of postwar days.
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A good pick for fans of historical fantasy that mixes wartime action, secret magic, sorcerers, and alternate-history adventure.
The Midnight Front
Historical Fiction · Horror · Urban Fantasy · World War 2
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Called “A rollicking, high-stakes adventure with action tailor-made for the movies” by Brian Staveley, The Midnight Front follows Cade after Nazi sorcerers kill his family and he enters the Allies’ secret magical warfare program to fight an occult battle within World War II, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for fans of historical fantasy that mixes wartime action, secret magic, sorcerers, and alternate-history adventure.
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From New York Times bestselling author David Mack comes a visionary World War II-era adventure. The Midnight Front is the epic first novel in the Dark Arts series.
On the eve of World War Two, Nazi sorcerers come gunning for Cade but kill his family instead. His one path of vengeance is to become an apprentice of The Midnight Front—the Allies' top-secret magickal warfare program—and become a sorcerer himself.
Unsure who will kill him first—his allies, his enemies, or the demons he has to use to wield magick—Cade fights his way through occupied Europe and enemy lines. But he learns too late the true price of revenge will be more terrible than just the loss of his soul—and there's no task harder than doing good with a power born of ultimate evil.
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War steals Pino Lella’s youth before he has chosen a side.
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Biographies & Memoirs · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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War steals Pino Lella’s youth before he has chosen a side. In Beneath a Scarlet Sky, the Milan teenager aids Jews fleeing over the Alps, then infiltrates the Nazi hierarchy as a driver to a powerful German general. Based on a true story, this historical novel traces one young man’s hidden resistance, resilience, and love amid the terror of occupied Italy.
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Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.
In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier—a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.
Fans of All the Light We Cannot See, The Nightingale, and Unbroken will enjoy this riveting saga of history, suspense, and love.
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Good for readers who like historical fiction about memory, complicity, moral reckoning, and late-life bravery.
All the Broken Places
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · World War 2
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Called a “powerful novel” by John Irving, All the Broken Places follows ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby, whose quiet London life is shaken when a young neighbor’s danger forces her to confront the guilt, grief, and secrets of her past in Nazi Germany, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 35,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like historical fiction about memory, complicity, moral reckoning, and late-life bravery.
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“You can’t prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel.” —John Irving, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The World According to Garp
“Exceptional, layered and compelling…This book moves like a freight train.” —Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of In Love
From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination camps.
Then, a new family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can’t help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a disturbing, violent argument between Henry’s beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel’s hard-won, self-contained existence.
All The Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel’s girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman whose life has been haunted by the past. Now, Gretel faces a similar crossroads to one she encountered long ago. Back then, she denied her own complicity, but now, faced with a chance to interrogate her guilt, grief and remorse, she can choose to save a young boy. If she does, she will be forced to reveal the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. This time, she can make a different choice than before—whatever the cost to herself….
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