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“The strength of Shanghai is in its skillful plotting, with numerous twists and turns as befitting this tumultuous period in the city’s history.”

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“an intimate novel, closely and brilliantly observed . . .”

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easily merits five stars because of its ability to keep the reader interested until the end through its unusual and beautifully told story.”

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Based on the saga of the Jews emerging from the Holocaust and their determination to inhabit a land to call their own, The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner is an epic retelling of

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Defending Britta Stein makes vivid an important part of Holocaust history, one that is less familiar to the general public and deserves all the more to be better known. . . .

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“A fascinating visit to a little-known pocket of U.S. immigrant history.”

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An important, sensitive look at the triumph of the human spirit over evil, The Teacher of Warsaw is based on a true story and epitomizes the very best of poignant

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This highly emotional novel includes two narratives combined in one, commencing in June 1940 in Riga, Latvia.

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“What he did see—and described in sharp, yet understated, detail—was the growing panic and slow loss of innocence among German Jews.”

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Surely there are World War II novels that aren’t depressing, but this isn’t one of them.

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“Khemlin has created an unforgettable character and opened a window onto a world more people should know about.”

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“Certainly this novel is timely, a reminder of the United States’ inexcusable inhumanity 70 years ago when it cruelly blocked desperate refugees.”

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“Only when Isabel finally learns the truth about her mother’s past will she be able to . . . move forward with her own life.

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Mischling is a gripping, powerful novel of twin Jewish girls who become victims of the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele’s medical experiments at Auschwitz.

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An eighteen-year-old Jewish Bostonian from a wealthy family gives birth out of wedlock in 1917 at her uncle’s house in Cape Ann.

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In eastern Persia a couple of millennia ago an earthquake buries a fictional city that legend has it was inhabited by descendants of the ten lost northern tribes of ancient Israel.

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Can a novel be both suspenseful and predictable? Less than half way through Jennifer S.

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The first thing to be said about this intriguing historical novel is that it ranks high among the “must read” list of debut works.

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“[a] fine novel that educates and entertains.”