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Maus: a Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: D810.J4 S643 2011

ISBN: 0394747232

Publication Date: 2011

Pantheon Books
295 Pages
Ages X-X

In this graphic novel, Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Spiegelman, Vladek--Comic books, strips, etc.
Spiegelman, Art--Comic books, strips, etc.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
Children of Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.

Freiheit!: the White Rose Graphic Novel by Andrea Grosso Ciponte
Call Number: DD256.3 .G7635 2021

ISBN: 9780874863444

Publication Date: 2021-02-16

Plough Publishing House
111 Pages
Ages 12-14

The dramatic true story of a handful of students who resisted the Nazis and paid with their lives, now in a stunning graphic novel. With an entire nation blindly following an evil leader, where did a handful of students find the courage to resist? The university students who formed the White Rose, an undercover resistance movement in Nazi Germany, knew that doing so could cost them their lives. But some things are worth dying for. The White Rose printed and distributed leaflets to expose Nazi atrocities and wake up their fellow citizens. The Gestapo caught and executed them. Sophie Scholl was twenty-one; her brother Hans, twenty-four; Christoph Probst, twenty-three; Alexander Schmorell and Willi Graf, twenty-five. But the White Rose was not silenced. Their heroism continues to inspire new generations of resisters. Now, for the first time, this story that has been celebrated in print and film can be experienced as a graphic novel. Italian artist Andrea Grosso Ciponte's haunting imagery will resonate with today's students and activists. The challenges they face may vary, but the need for young people to stand up against evil, whatever the cost, will remain.

Plough Website

Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings

White Rose (German resistance group)--Fiction.
Graphic novels.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Underground movements--Fiction.
Anti-Nazi movement--Fiction.

The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Call Number: DS135.N6 F73313

ISBN: 9781556750007

Publication Date: 1988-01-01

Doubleday
308 Pages
Ages 12+

The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Sears Subject Headings

Frank, Anne--1929-1945--Diaries.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Personal narratives.
Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Diaries.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Diaries.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Ethnic relations.

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Call Number: PQ8098.1.L54 A67513 2015

ISBN: 9781501116971

Publication Date: 2015-11-03

Atria Books
321 Pages
Ages 18+

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family like thousands of other Japanese Americans are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at San Francisco's charmingly eccentric Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years. Sweeping through time and spanning generations and continents, The Japanese Lover explores questions of identity, abandonment, redemption, and the unknowable impact of fate on our lives.

Sears Subject Headings:

Older women--Fiction.
Love in old age--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
FICTION/ Historical.
FICTION/ Romance/ Historical.
FICTION/ Literary.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
Love stories.
Fiction.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the Girls of Slender Means, the Driver's Seat, the Only Problem by Muriel Spark; Frank Kermode (Introduction by)
Call Number: PR6037.P29 A6 2004

ISBN: 9781400042067

Publication Date: 2004-04-06

Everyman's Library
xxxv, 462 Pages
Ages X-X

The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Spark's most celebrated novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils. The Girls of Slender Means is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of 1945. The Driver's Seat follows the final haunted hours of a woman descending into madness. And The Only Problem is a witty fable about suffering that brings the Book of Job to bear on contemporary terrorism. All four novels give evidence of one of the most original and unmistakable voices in contemporary fiction. Characters are vividly etched in a few words; earth-shaking events are lightly touched on. Yet underneath the glittering surface there is an obsessive probing of metaphysical questions: the meaning of good and evil, the need for salvation, the search for significance.

Penguin Random House Website

Bitter Eden: A Novel by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Call Number: PR9369.3.A37 B58 2014

ISBN: 9781250043665

Publication Date: 2014-02-25

Picador
vii, 232 Pages
Ages 18+

A modern classic being introduced to the United States for the first time, Tatamkhulu Afrika's autobiographical novel illuminating the profound and incomparable bonds forged between prisoners of war. Bitter Eden is based on Tatamkhulu Afrika's own capture in North Africa and his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War II in Italy and Germany. This frank and beautifully wrought novel deals with three men who must negotiate the emotions that are brought to the surface by the physical closeness of survival in the male-only camps. The complex rituals of camp life and the strange loyalties and deep bonds among the men are heartbreakingly depicted. Bitter Eden is a tender, bitter, deeply felt book of lives inexorably changed, and of a war whose ending does not bring peace.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Fiction.
Prisoners of war--Fiction.
Male friendship.
Fiction.

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Call Number: PS3569.M5377 G57 2016

ISBN: 9781476716732

Publication Date: 2017-10-03

Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc.
438 Pages
Ages 11+

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. ‎Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished. With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Egan's first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men.

Sears Subject Headings

World War (1939-1945)
1939-1945
Young women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction.
Women divers--Fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Organized crime--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Absentee fathers--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Young Women.
New York (State)--New York.
United States.
Fiction.

The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
Call Number: PS3569.M5377 G57 2016

ISBN: 9781439140239

Publication Date: 2016-10-18

Simon and Schuster
308 Pages
Ages 18+

Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, under a canopy of stars, a fisherman named Cenzo comes across a young woman's body floating in the lagoon and soon discovers that she is still alive and in trouble. Born to a wealthy Jewish family, Giulia is on the run from the Wehrmacht SS. Cenzo chooses to protect Giulia rather than hand her over to the Nazis. This act of kindness leads them into the world of Partisans, random executions, the arts of forgery and high explosives, Mussolini's broken promises, the black market and gold, and, everywhere, the enigmatic maze of the Venice Lagoon. The Girl from Venice is a thriller, a mystery, and a retelling of Italian history that will take your breath away. Most of all it is a love story.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
FICTION/ Historical.
FICTION/ Espionage.
FICTION/ General.
Italy--History--German occupation, 1943-1945--Fiction.
Lover stories.
Historical fiction.
suspense fiction.
Fiction.

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Call Number: PS3613.E488 S53 2020

ISBN: 9780393083569

Publication Date: 2019-09-24

W. W. Norton & Company
428 Pages
Ages X-X

With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and overwhelming rage. Meanwhile, Mussolini's technologically advanced army prepares for an easy victory. Hundreds of thousands of Italians--Jewish photographer Ettore among them--march on Ethiopia seeking adventure. As the war begins in earnest, Hirut, Aster, and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms against the Italians. But how could she have predicted her own personal war as a prisoner of one of Italy's most vicious officers, who will force her to pose before Ettore's camera? What follows is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, with Hirut as the fierce, original, and brilliant voice at its heart. In incandescent, lyrical prose, Maaza Mengiste breathes life into complicated characters on both sides of the battle line, shaping a heartrending, indelible exploration of what it means to be a woman at war.

Sears Subject Headings:

World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Ethiopia--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War stories.
Fiction.