Books like The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester

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.

A sweeping coming‑of‑age story set on Nebraska’s prairie, following Jim Burden’s journey with his grandparents amid immigrant families, especially the Czech Shimerdas, and his complex love and friendship with Antonia.

In Jeffrey Archer’s debut of The Clifton Chronicles, the life of Harry Clifton unfolds from a Bristol dockyard in 1920 through two World Wars, revealing family secrets that shape one generation’s fortunes.

A sweeping family saga that follows the Clifton and Barrington families through love, betrayal, and corporate intrigue in 1960s Britain as secrets and ambition collide.

An American college girl in 1947 discovers her belated quest to uncover the fate of her vanished French cousin during WWI, leading her to the shadowy Alice Network where a former spy haunted by betrayal seeks vengeance.

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.

A thriller that brings together political intrigue, family drama and cross‑border espionage when a suicide note triggers a chain of events affecting the Clifton family, a London banker, and a woman behind the Iron Curtain.

Mario Puzo traces the rise of the Borgia family, revealing the intertwined forces of ambition, faith, and power that shaped one of Italy’s most notorious dynasties.

Harry Clifton navigates the fallout of an IRA bombing, using a newly acquired radio station to support a political prisoner while his family faces political pressure and secret pasts.

Cass is haunted by a terrifying memory of a fatal car crash and the guilt of possible failure. Sleepless nights, forgetfulness, and ominous phone calls heighten her paranoia and threaten to unravel her life.

Paris Secret is a historical romance set against the backdrop of World War II, blending themes of family life, war, and love in the 20th century.

A multigenerational saga of Virgin Islanders, following the lives of two orphaned sisters and their half‑brother after a 1912 shipwreck, as they navigate identity, love, and magic amid the islands’ transition from Danish to American rule.

"Poignant, touching, and lively, this memoir of a woman who loses her mother and creates a new life for herself in Paris will speak to anyone who has lost a parent or reinvented themselves. Lisa Anselmo wrapped her entire life around her mother, a strong woman who was a defining force in her daughter's life--maybe too defining. When her mother dies from breast cancer, Lisa realizes she hadn't built a life of her own, and struggles to find her purpose. Who is she without her mother--and her mother's expectations? Desperate for answers, she reaches for a lifeline in the form of an apartment in Paris, refusing to play it safe for the first time. What starts out as a lurching act of survival sets Lisa on a course that reshapes her life in ways she never could have imagined. But how can you imagine a life bigger than anything you've ever known? In the vein of Eat, Pray, Love and Wild, My (Part-time) Paris Life a story is for anyone who's ever felt lost or hopeless, but still holds out hope of something more. This candid memoir explores one woman's search for peace and meaning, and how the ups and downs of expat life in Paris taught her to let go of fear, find self-worth, and create real, lasting happiness"--

447 pages : 24 cm

Samuel Tyne leaves his Ghanaian exile, quits his tech job, and relocates his family to a Canadian mansion, where he uncovers a web of rivalries, fires, and secrets that mirror his own family’s past.

A sweeping, generational saga that follows an African American family from the post‑Civil War era through the Great Depression, illuminating the complex ties—family, race, and regional—shaping America.

When sixteen-year-old Noa is forced to abandon her child after a forbidden pregnancy with a Nazi soldier, she discovers a boxcar of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and steals one to escape.