The Search
Illustrated by Eric Heuvel
Story by Eric Heuvel, Ruud van der Rol, Lies Schippers

The Search uses a graphic novel format to present the fictional experiences of one family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In this sequel to A Family Secret, Esther visits the Dutch farm where she hid during WWII to learn what happened to the people who helped her and the others in hiding. When her teenage grandson Daniel tracks down an old neighborhood friend, Bob, she is deeply shocked to hear his recounting of her parents' final days in Auschwitz. Esther can barely recall her parents' faces, but then her friend, Helena, remembers something...

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Books for Young Readers
English Language Edition
Illustrated soft cover: 64 pages (item #213)

Price: $8.99

A Family Secret
Illustrated by Eric Heuvel
Story by Eric Heuvel, Menno Metselaar, Ruud van der Rol, Hans Groeneweg
        
A young boy goes to his grandmother's attic to find old things to sell at a flea market and makes an amazing discovery. The family secret is revealed by the grandmother and so introduces the reader to the Holocaust as it affected one Dutch family and their neighbors during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. The authors and illustrator succinctly focus on collaborators, resisters, by-standers, helpers and victims through a compelling story line and age appropriate illustrations. This is a great educational tool to introduce middle-and-high school students to the history of the times; this book will dovetail readily with classroom curriculum.

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Books for Young Readers
English Language Edition
Illustrated soft cover: 60 pages (item #212)

Price: $8.99

The Good German
by Joseph Kanon
    
Jake Geismar, an American correspondent, has returned to Berlin following the end of WWII to write about the Allied triumph while pursuing a more personal quest: his search for Lena, the married woman he left behind. The Good German is a story of espionage, love, and murder, an extraordinary re-creation of a city devasted by war, and a thriller that asks the most profound ethical questions in its exploration of the nature of justice and what we mean by good and evil. The book includes discussion questions and an interview with the author, and was also made into a Warner Brothers movie. Joseph Kanon was honored with the Human Writes Award at the 2007 Spirit of Anne Frank Awards in New York City.

Picador
paperback: 482 pages
(item #120)

Price: $14.00

Divided Loyalties
by Richard E. Witten

Divided Loyalties is an extensively researched historical novel that tells the story of an Army veteran's desperate attempt to come to terms with the gruesome choices he was forced to make during the Second World War. Fifty year after the War ends, a chance meeting with a survivor of a slave labor camp he helped liberate forces Sam Hart to confront his role in the cruel treatment of displaced persons at the end of the War. Hart, who has become a successful Wall Street executive, must now struggle with his resurgent guilt, and attempt to find peace and redemption, in the midst of a series of business and familial crises.

BookSurge Publishing
paperback: 332 pages
(item #121)

Price: $15.99