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A wealthy Parisian family flees the Nazi invasion alongside millions of refugees, and their intertwined story with a German soldier reveals the intimacy of occupation.
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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.
Omer Pasha Latas
In 1850 Omer Pasha Latas, a Serb convert who has risen to Ottoman general, rides into Sarajevo to crush the rebellious Bosnian beys, and the city waits to see what he will do.
Wandering Star
Esther, a Jewish girl hiding with her mother in a mountain village in the south of France in 1943, sets out after the war for Palestine, where her path briefly crosses that of Nejma, a Palestinian girl bound for a refugee camp.
Midaq Alley
The residents of a narrow Cairo alley during World War II, among them a beautiful young woman desperate to get out, chase money and love as the war changes the city around them.
Miracle at St. Anna
Four Black American soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in a Tuscan village during WWII and find shelter with the locals.
Atonement
A thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie that destroys two lives, then spends decades trying to atone through the only tool she has: writing.
The Nightingale
In occupied France, two sisters fight the war in different ways: Vianne, forced to billet a German officer in her home, and the younger Isabelle, who joins the Resistance, both at devastating cost.
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 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.
The English Patient
Four strangers take shelter in an Italian monastery at the end of World War II, and the intimacy of their convalescence becomes its own kind of war.
Longbourn
Pride and Prejudice from below stairs: Sarah, an orphaned housemaid who scrubs the Bennets' petticoats at Longbourn, grows curious about James Smith, the quiet new footman who arrives with no references and a past he will not discuss.
A God in Ruins
The companion to Life After Life follows a bomber pilot through World War II, exploring the heroism and trauma of the men who flew and the families who waited.