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A 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

Italo Calvino’s postmodern masterpiece presents ten unfinished novels, each interrupted in suspense, weaving a labyrinthine exploration of reading, writing, and the power of imagination.

A fugitive seeks refuge on a remote Polynesian island, but when tourists arrive, his promise of secrecy is tested by love and an inexplicable barrier that keeps him and his affection apart.

During World War II three American, Polish and German women’s lives intersect as they confront love, duty and the horrors of the Holocaust, ultimately working together to expose wartime secrets.

In The Last Flight of Poxl West, Elijah Goldstein follows his uncle Poxl into wartime RAF, only to confront the hero’s buried trauma and the cost of war on family and identity.

A post‑war Viennese drama that follows several exiles returning to a shattered city as Austria rebuilds its identity after the 1945 war.

When Nazi forces reach Ukraine, engineer Otto Pohl encounters a group of Jews, including the distraught Ephraim, herding into an abandoned factory. Yasia, a local farmer's daughter, offers shelter to two boys, weaving a story of survival, duty, and the human capacity for courage amid terror.

Salazar's fascist Portugal in 1938 is part of the menacing cloud that hangs over Europe and Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweight, lonely, mostly retired journalist who doesn't want to think about it. He escapes facing the ominous times by translating nineteenth-century French stories for the weekly Culture Page he edits for a Lisbon newspaper. He dwells on the past and over-indulges in heavily-sugared glasses of lemonade and omelettes aux fines berbes. "Are you living in another world, and you working for a newspaper?" his exasperated friend Father Antonio asks him. "Look here Pereira, for goodness sake go and find out what's happening around you.". Then Pereira meets an appealing young man, Monteiro Rossi, and in a city where the very walls have ears and where those who know what's good for them turn a blind eye to what goes on around them, he is forced to break out of the shell of his own inhibitions. In the process of facing reality and encountering the brutality of an authoritarian state, Pereira becomes a gentle hero the reader will long remember.

In the Wolf's Mouth follows two young soldiers as Allied forces wrestle with a chaotic 'liberation' of North Africa and Sicily, while a shepherd and a Mafia member witness the war’s brutality and the enduring presence of organized crime.

Set in the 1860s, The Leopard is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.