The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah-440 pages

 Two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France.  Two different paths are chosen, and yet both of them are so brave.  The choices that a mother makes for the survival of her children, the choice a single, independent woman makes to assure that pilots are allowed to fight another day.  I LOVE this book.

 

The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin

                                             The Keeper of Hidden Boks by Madeline Martin-402 pages

Zofia was leading a normal teenage life when the Nazis' bombed her city and looted and destroy her city.  Her best friend Janina is Jewish and is forced to live in the infamous Warsaw ghetto.  The girls share a love of literature and they find ways to smuggle books into the ghetto so that the people that live there have a sense of humanity; saving their culture and the community.

Wonderfully written..I highly recommend it.

The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes

The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes-368 pages

In 1946 Germany, the Library of Congress sends Emmy over to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious books that the Nazi's plundered. When she arrives she stands awed at a huge warehouse piled with books.  Emmy is one of many assigned the task of finding their rightful owners. She becomes enthralled by the inscription in one particular book and makes it her life's work to find out who the book was from and who it was given to.

Very intriguing with characters that bring a lot of depth and realism to the story.  I enjoyed it very much.