Books like In our hearts we were giants by Yehuda Koren

Elie Wiesel's autobiographical memoir chronicles his childhood in a Hungarian ghetto and his harrowing survival in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, exploring the horrors of the Holocaust and its lasting moral impact.

Twelve-year‑old Nao in Tokyo wrestles with loneliness and bullying and, before she ends it all, writes a diary about her great‑grandmother, a Buddhist nun who has lived a century. Across the Pacific a novelist on a remote island discovers objects from Nao’s life and is drawn into her mystery.

A contemporary family drama in which a mother‑child relationship is complicated by a companion chimpanzee, raising questions of identity, secrecy and moral responsibility.

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

In the early‑1800s Charleston, a young enslaved woman named Handful and a free white girl, Sarah Grimke, forge a bond that transforms their lives, as they confront slavery, gender oppression, and the fight for abolition.

After being adopted by a quirky Dublin couple who treat him only as a house‑guest, Cyril embarks on a life‑spanning quest to discover his origins, his place in Ireland, and the meaning of true belonging.

A poignant novel exploring the aftermath of war on a single Iraq war veteran.

Illustrated memoir of Miriam Katin’s escape from Nazi‑occupied Budapest with her mother, recounting their perilous journey and the impact on her faith and understanding of the Holocaust.

"Mihail Sebastian's diary of the fascist years in Romania, written half a century ago, was at last published only recently, and is here translated into English for the first time. Sebastian was a promising your Jewish writer in prewar Bucharest - a novelist, playwright, poet, and journalist who counted among his friends the leading intellectuals and social luminaries of a sophisticated Eastern European culture. Because of Romania's opportunistic treatment of Jews, he survived the war and the Holocaust, only to be killed in early 1945 in an automobile accident.". "The book offers not only a chronicle of the dark years of Nazism but a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, and a music lover's journal. Above all, it is a measured but blistering account of the "rhinocerization" of major Romanian intellectuals who were Sebastian's friends, including Mircea Elaide and E.M. Cioran, writers and thinkers who were mesmerized by the Nazi-fascist delirium of Europe's "reactionary revolution." In poignant and memorable sequences, Sebastian touches on the progression of the machinery of brutalization and on the historical context that lay behind it."--BOOK JACKET.

A poignant story of love and resistance against the backdrop of World War II.