Books like Stella by Peter Wyden

Reid’s lush tale follows film legend Evelyn Hugo as she unveils the truth of her glamorous, scandal‑ridden life to an unlikely biographer, revealing the intersecting fates of Hollywood’s biggest star and a struggling reporter.

Madeline Miller’s retelling follows Circe, daughter of Helios, as she discovers her witchcraft powers, encounters mythic heroes on an isolated island, and battles the wrath of gods to decide her place between divinity and humanity.

A young woman raised alone in a North Carolina marsh is accused of murder after a local man's death, weaving a tale of survival, love, and secrets in the wilderness.

In the orderly suburb of Shaker Heights, a new family’s arrival and a custody dispute ignite tension, revealing secrets, art, and the complex pull of motherhood in a tightly knit community.

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 family saga that traces the shifting ownership of a house from a wealthy couple to a newly rich businessman and his children, exploring themes of inheritance, sibling rivalry, poverty, and stepmother dynamics.

Two college friends discover that love can span continents and a decade when they reunite after life‑changing choices thrust them apart.

A fifth‑grader in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, learns to confront prejudice after a Klan burning cross, finding the courage to demand change in her segregated town.

Lucie Adelsberger’s memoir recounts her harrowing experience as a Jewish female physician sent to Auschwitz’s infirmary in the Gypsy section, revealing the brutal dehumanization and suffering endured by women during the Holocaust.

At Temperley High, a strict English boarding school, seventeen‑year‑old Stella Hamilton dominates the exclusive clique while aiming to become Head Girl and secure a romance with her equally popular classmate—until the arrival of New Yorker Caitlin Clarke threatens to upend her plans.

A compelling biography of Otto Frank, the determined Jewish businessman who preserved his daughter Anne’s diaries and bore witness to the Holocaust.

On June 5, 1944, the eve of D-day, Isaac Levendel's mother left the cherry farm in southern France where she and her son, not quite eight years old, had gone to escape the Nazis for what was to be a brief visit to their home to pick up the last of their belongings. She never returned. For more than forty years Isaac Levendel remained silent about, and tormented by, her disappearance. Finally, in 1990, he began to look for answers. In this book, Levendel recounts his struggle to accept his mother's death and his search through secret government archives for her killers. What he found shocked him. For decades Levendel believed that the Germans had taken his mother away. In fact, the archives contained evidence of widespread French collaboration with the Nazis, much of it not required of them but rather carried out willingly. The collaborators included both respected government officials who prepared deportation lists and members of a Marseille gang who arrested Jews - including Levendel's mother - and sold them to the Nazis. This book details this horrible complicity and is steeped in Levendel's anger toward those who participated. But there were also those who helped the young Isaac - sometimes at great risk to themselves - after his mother disappeared, and Levendel remembers them here as well. His search for the truth of his past reunited him with several of these people, and his gratitude also is palpable.

The Lost follows Daniel Mendelsohn as he seeks the truth about six missing family members from the Holocaust, tracing clues across four continents and a small Ukrainian town to confront memory, history, and the enduring impact of loss.

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