Lilac Girls
by Martha Hall Kelly
Published: April 2016
Inspired by the life of a real World War II
heroine, this debut novel reveals a story of
love, redemption, and secrets that were
hidden for decades.
New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her
hands full with her post at the French
consulate and a new love on the horizon. But
Carolines world is forever changed when
Hitlers army invades Poland in September
1939and then sets its sights on France.
An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia
Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her
carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn
deeper into her role as courier for the
underground resistance movement. In a
tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and
suspecting neighbors, one false move can
have dire consequences.
For the ambitious young German doctor,
Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government
medical position seems her ticket out of a
desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds
herself trapped in a male-dominated realm
of Nazi secrets and power.
The lives of these three women are set on a
collision course when the unthinkable
happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrck,
the notorious Nazi concentration camp for
women. Their stories cross continents
from New York to Paris, Germany, and
Polandas Caroline and Kasia strive to bring
justice to those whom history has forgotten.
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Published: Sept 2005
Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Ruby
Award.
Its just a small story really, about among
other things: a girl, some words, an
accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a
Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of
thievery.
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus
Zusaks groundbreaking new novel is the
story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living
outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a
meager existence for herself by stealing
when she encounters something she cant
resist books. With the help of her
accordion-playing foster father, she learns to
read and shares her stolen books with her
neighbors during bombing raids as well as
with the Jewish man hidden in her basement
before he is marched to Dachau. This is an
unforgettable story about the ability of
books to feed the soul.
All The Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
Published: May 2014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-
winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful,
stunningly ambitious instant New York Times
bestseller about a blind French girl and a
German boy whose paths collide in occupied
France as both try to survive the devastation
of World War II.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris
near the Museum of Natural History, where
he works as the master of its thousands of
locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes
blind and her father builds a perfect
miniature of their neighborhood so she can
memorize it by touch and navigate her way
home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy
Paris and father and daughter flee to the
walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-
Laures reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall
house by the sea. With them they carry what
might be the museums most valuable and
dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan
Werner grows up with his younger sister,
enchanted by a crude radio they find.
Werner becomes an expert at building and
fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent
that wins him a place at a brutal academy for
Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to
track the resistance. More and more aware
of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner
travels through the heart of the war and,
finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and
Marie-Laures converge.
Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
Published: February 2016
Winter, 1945. Four teenagers. Four secrets.
Each one born of a different homeland; each
one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies,
and war.
As thousands of desperate refugees flock to
the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance,
four paths converge, vying for passage
aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that
promises safety and freedom.
Yet not all promises can be kept.
Inspired by the single greatest tragedy in
maritime history, bestselling and award-
winning author Ruta Sepetys (Between
Shades of Gray) lifts the veil on a shockingly
little-known casualty of World War II. An
illuminating and life-affirming tale of heart
and hope.
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
Published: February 2015
Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and
Isabelle have always been close. Younger,
bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Vianne is
content with life in the French countryside
with her husband Antoine and their
daughter. But when the Second World War
strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and
Vianne finds herself isolated so Isabelle is
sent by their father to help her.
As the war progresses, the sisters'
relationship and strength are tested. With
life changing in unbelievably horrific ways,
Vianne and Isabelle will find themselves
facing frightening situations and responding
in ways they never thought possible as
bravery and resistance take different forms
in each of their actions.
Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
Published: February 2012
I have two weeks. You'll shoot me at the end
no matter what I do.
That's what you do to enemy agents. It's
what we do to enemy agents. But I look at all
the dark and twisted roads ahead and
cooperation is the easy way out. Possibly the
only way out for a girl caught red-handed
doing dirty work like mine - and I will do
anything, anything to avoid SS-
Hauptsturmfhrer von Linden interrogating
me again.
He has said that I can have as much paper as
I need. All I have to do is cough up everything
I can remember about the British War Effort.
And I'm going to. But the story of how I came
to be here starts with my friend Maddie. She
is the pilot who flew me into France - an
Allied Invasion of Two.
We are a sensational team.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Published: July 2008
Written with warmth and humor as a series
of letters, this novel is a celebration of the
written word in all its guises, and of finding
connection in the most surprising ways.
I wonder how the book got to Guernsey?
Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing
instinct in books that brings them to their
perfect readers.
January 1946: London is emerging from the
shadow of the Second World War, and writer
Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book
subject. Who could imagine that she would
find it in a letter from a man shes never met,
a native of the island of Guernsey, who has
come across her name written inside a book
by Charles Lamb.
As Juliet and her new correspondent
exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the
world of this man and his friendsand what
a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Societyborn as a spur-of-the-moment alibi
when its members were discovered breaking
curfew by the Germans occupying their
islandboasts a charming, funny, deeply
human cast of characters, from pig farmers
to phrenologists, literature lovers all.
Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence
with the societys members, learning about
their island, their taste in books, and the
impact the recent German occupation has
had on their lives. Captivated by their
stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what
she finds will change her forever.
Written with warmth and humor as a series
of letters, this novel is a celebration of the
written word in all its guises, and of finding
connection in the most surprising ways.
From Sand and Ash
by Amy Harmon
Published: December 2016
Italy, 1943Germany occupies much of the
country, placing the Jewish population in
grave danger during World War II.
As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco
were raised like family but divided by
circumstance and religion. As the years go
by, the two find themselves falling in love.
But the church calls to Angelo and, despite
his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the
priesthood.
Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a
Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with
nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing
in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a
convent, where Eva discovers she is just one
of many Jews being sheltered by the Catholic
Church.
home, tearing her family from the
comfortable life they've known. Separated
from her father, forced onto a crowded and
dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her
young brother slowly make their way north,
crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in
the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are
forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets
and fight for their lives under the cruelest of
conditions.
Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously--
and at great risk--documenting events by
drawing, hoping these messages will make
their way to her father's prison camp to let
him know they are still alive. It is a long and
harrowing journey, spanning years and
covering 6,500 miles, but it is through
incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina
ultimately survives. Between Shades of Gray
is a novel that will steal your breath and
capture your heart.

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deliverance, while Angelo risks everything to
keep her safe. With the world at war and so
many in need, Angelo and Eva face trial after
trial, choice after agonizing choice, until fate
and fortune finally collide, leaving them with
the most difficult decision of all.

Between Shades of Gray

by Ruta Sepetys
Published: March 2011

Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old

Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she
draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one
night when Soviet officers barge into her