Books like Abigail
A headstrong Budapest general's daughter is hidden in a strict Protestant girls' school during WWII and slowly learns who among the severe staff is protecting her.
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The Door
A Hungarian writer hires a fiercely private old housekeeper who never lets anyone through her front door, and their decades-long bond turns into love, dependence, and betrayal.
Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
A Separate Peace
A New England boys' school in the last summer of the Second World War, and a narrator who lives the rest of his life trying to understand what he did on a tree branch to the boy he loved.
The Book of Lost Names
Eva Abrams, a semi-retired Florida librarian, sees a newspaper photograph of a book stolen by the Nazis that she has not seen in sixty years, the book that holds the key to the papers she and a forger named Rémy made for Jewish children in occupied France.
Iza's Ballad
After her father's death, a well-meaning Budapest doctor brings her widowed mother to live in her modern flat and slowly dissolves the old woman's place in the world.
Goodnight Mister Tom
In 1939 William Beech, a thin, frightened evacuee from London, is billeted with Tom Oakley, a gruff old widower in a country village who has kept to himself for forty years.
True Biz
At the River Valley School for the Deaf, Charlie, a teenager whose cochlear implant has never worked well, arrives late in her schooling, February, the hearing headmistress, fights to keep the school open, and Austin, a student from a deaf family, faces change at home.
All the Light We Cannot See
Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German orphan with a gift for radios, grow up on opposite sides of World War II until their paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo in 1944.
The Property
An Israeli woman and her grandmother travel to Warsaw to reclaim a family apartment and discover that the property, and the grandmother, were more than they looked.
The Lost Girls of Paris
In 1946, Grace Healey finds a suitcase abandoned under a bench in Grand Central Terminal and inside it photographs of twelve women, agents sent into occupied France by a British network led by Eleanor Trigg, who never came home.
The Moon Is Down
An invading army takes a small coastal mining town in an unnamed northern country almost without a shot, and its colonel tries to run it peacefully through the town's mayor.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A London writer in 1946 begins a correspondence with a reading club that invented itself as an alibi for a roast-pig curfew violation during the German occupation of Guernsey.