The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved.
Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies’ man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport from Slovakia to Auschwitz in 1942, Lale immediately stands out...
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Benkinsop’s Academy for the Daughters of Gentlefolk prided itself that any girl coming from its hallowed portals was a valuable and talented member of society—underground society that is. For although the Prospectus included Wise...
The New York Times bestselling author David Duchovny is back
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This trilogy tells the story of Robert the Bruce and how, tutored and encouraged by the heroic William Wallace, he determined to continue the fight for an independent Scotland, sustained by a passionate love for his land.
THE PATH OF...
The new novel from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.
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One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society. Oliver...
To a young boy there is nothing more tragic than to be left out of things — even the wrong...