Books like Beholden by Susan R. Holman

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

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.

In 1850 California’s gold country, a young woman sold into prostitution learns redemption when a devout man offers unconditional love, challenging her bitterness and redefining her hope for a new life.

A contemporary fiction thriller that follows an ordinary man whose life is turned upside down by a series of personal tragedies, prompting a profound spiritual journey through questionings of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.

Shara Grey's guardianship plan with the eccentric Patrick Owen creates a tangled web of misunderstandings, leading to confusion for both of them.

It is 1974 when Leni Allbright's impulsive father Ernt decides the family is moving to Alaska. But the Alaskan winter is just as unforgiving as Ernt, and life quickly becomes a struggle for survival.

An intimate biography of Laura Schroff’s friendship with an 11‑year‑old New York homeless boy, Maurice, and the transformative impact of their decades‑long bond.

Modern medicine has unprecedented power to heal human beings of physical and mental disease, to keep them health, and even to improve the human race. This power can be used to humanize life or to dehumanize and destroy it. It can be used justly to benefit all, or it can be used to benefit the few at the expense of the many. How to use such power is a question of values and, therefore, of individual and group decisions which are not merely technical but ethical. Two reasons have induced us to add to the already extensive literature on medical-ethical and bioethical topics. First, too much of this literature focuses on a few controversial but sometimes minor topics, while neglecting the broader and major issues affecting human health and the health care professions. Second, we want to assist Christian, and especially Catholic, health care professionals and health care facilities faced with the difficult and often puzzling responsibility of giving witness to a long tradition of humanistic health care, while working with other professionals and government agencies committed to diverse value systems. -from Introduction.

The book traces how early Jewish communities, guided by biblical teachings and priestly instruction, adopted basic sanitation and hygiene practices that promoted health without modern microbiology.