Akron Public Library

The author once again casts her unerring eye on the dark impulses and abiding love that drive human beings to acts of savage violence and uinexpected tenderness.

"To save her best friend from the horrors of Nazi Germany, an invisible girl must embark on an utterly unforgettable journey of redemption and revenge"--Page 4 of cover.

In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it’s his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross,...

Newly engaged, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman is a prized catch in his tight-knit Jewish suburb of London, but as the plans for his wedding with his high school sweetheart, Rachel Gilbert, begin to close in around him, Rachel's younger cousin Ellie Schneider moves home from New York and she unsettles Adam with her beauty and independence, showing him what freedom is all about.

"All his life, Elijah Goldstein has idolized his charismatic Uncle Poxl. Intensely magnetic, cultured and brilliant, Poxl takes Elijah under his wing, introducing him to opera and art and literature. But when Poxl publishes a memoir of how he was forced to leave his home north of Prague at the start of WWII and then avenged the deaths of his parents by flying RAF bombers over Germany during the war, killing thousands of German citizens, Elijah watches...

Leah and little Louis attempt to escape Austria over treacherous foot paths in the Alps while Murphy and Elisa begin their trip toward New York. While Jewish refugees from Germany float on the open seas, Elisa stands precariously between Hitler's domination of Europe and the possibility of destroying his power once and for all.

"Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life hiding from her Jewish heritage. Now eighty-seven years old and a widow, she is haunted by a lifetime of secrets and fading memories of the family she left behind. Her one outlet is the writing group she's presided over for a decade, but when a new member walks in--a fifteen year old girl who reminds her so much of her beloved sister Sarah--Mary...

Joheved finds her mind and spirit awakened by religious study, but knowing the risk, she must keep her passion for learning and prayer hidden. When she becomes betrothed, she is forced to choose between marital happiness and being true to her love of the Talmud.

It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic who will be his host, Saul's girlfriend will shoot a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road, an homage to the famous album cover. As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed...