Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...

Abandoned by her folk-dancing partner, Sharon Spiegelman "begins her own spiritual quest ... until she comes up empty. ... Especially when she meets Mikhail, falls truly in love at last, and discovers what even she could not imagine--her destiny."--Jacket.

"From Maira Kalman, the author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and The Elements of Style, and Alex Kalman, designer, curator, writer, and founder of Mmuseumm, Sara Berman's Closet is a highly pictorial and narrative memoir of Maira's mother, an endearing and universally resonant celebration of individuality, personal expression, and the art of living authentically --

Osnat Barzani, also known as Asnat or Asenath Barzani, the world's first female rabbi, was born almost five hundred years ago, during a time when few girls were allowed to read. Her father was a great scholar whose house was filled with books, and she convinced him to teach her. She grew up to teach others, becoming a wise and famous scholar in her own right.-- Adapted from inside front jacket flap, Amazon.com, and a Jerusalem Post article about the...

"In 1945, young Francine and her maman are sent to the Bergen-Belsen Nazi prison camp, where life is gray and hopeless. Determined to lift Francine's spirits, maman shares a secret: hidden inside her bag are two pieces of chocolate. They're the first sweets Francine has seen in years, but maman tells her not to eat them. "One day, when I see that you really need them...that's when I'll give the chocolates to you." When Francine meets Hélène, a fellow...

A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.