The turbulent saga of Ash, a troublesome, twelve-year-old, trans-racially adopted British-Asian boy, sent to live
on a Kent farm by a mother too ill to cope, during the long, hot summer of 1976. There, he discovers a buried WWII Spitfire ...
Prague, 1983. Claire Markham, a New York antiques dealer, is recruited for a mission behind
the Iron Curtain by a mysterious stranger whose organization, the New Exodus Project, arranges for Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. Intrigued, Claire agrees to ...
Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi
Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s ...
Yara Garcia 's family has lived in Havana, Cuba, for several generations, but when Communist
ruler Fidel Castro clamps down on personal freedoms, the Garcias are forced to flee the island. In Miami, where they settle with other exiles, 13-year-old ...
Fly Away, Pigeon tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration
and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland. In this novel, Melinda Nadj Abonji interweaves two narrative strands, recounting the history of ...
Fry was the American Schindler...with desperate exiles, menacing Nazis, forged documents and midnight escapes...[think] Casablanca.--New
York TimesVarian Fry, the only American honored at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, was a young New Yorker who rescued more than 1,500 Europeans from ...
Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the Jewish Community of Novogrudok, Poland Translation of Pinkas Navaredok, Originally
Published in Hebrew and Yiddish in Tel Aviv in 1963. Have you seen the movie Defiance about the Bielski brothers' creation of a Jewish village ...
A true story of romance and courtship, intrigue, and murder, this book is set among
the hills of southwestern Wisconsin in 1926. Clara Olson, a pretty, devout Norwegian Lutheran farm girl meets Erdman Olson, a handsome, suave, smooth-talking college lad ...
