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• Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life

  a Novel

  Reitman, Pamela,

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  “Yes. She refused her destiny. Even here alone, in exile with war raging on the continent and without vision of the future, still there remained vision—beauty in the world, nearly unbearable, and tenderness in living, hardly endurable, both holding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lilac People

  a Novel

  Todd, Milo,

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  “They try to convince people that you're the only group they're after, when really, you're just the first one. They look for the first domino to knock down, the one people will give the least resistance to, the one they care about the least. And…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Creek Mary's Blood

  a Novel

  Brown, Dee, 1908-2002

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  “I call it magic, the crossing of our paths with the paths of others, how quickly, how completely, these magic meetings can turn us into directions we never dreamed of.” Native American genocide on the Trail of Tears (1830)

• What Is the What

  the Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng : a Novel

  Eggers, Dave

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  “I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.” Darfur genocide (2003–2005)

• Small Country

  a Novel

  Faye, Gaël, 1982-

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  “Of course a book can change you. It can even change your life. It's like falling in love. And you never know when such an encounter might happen. You should beware of books, they're sleeping genies.” Rwandan genocide (1994)

• Chasing Sunsets Down I-80

  Birn, Jennifer,

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  "One year, six months and eight days after Germany surrendered, signifying the end of WWII, Frederic and Charlotte Rosenthal boarded a boat bound for Ellis Island. They had no idea what lay ahead of them on the six-to-twelve-week journey of if…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Baker of Vienna

  Kurtzman, Sharon,

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  "Hate has created enough monsters already." The Holocaust (1941-1945)

• One Good Thing

  Hunter, Georgia, 1978-

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  “If you’re listening, she thinks, sending a silent message toward the peninsula, I’ll keep him safe. I promise.” The Holocaust (1941-1945)

• The Girls of the Glimmer Factory

  a Novel

  Coburn, Jennifer,

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  “Nature taunted her, but it was humanity that had betrayed her. Where were the cries of outrage from the world? They had to know what was happening.” Holocaust (1941-1945)

• The Goddess of Warsaw

  a Novel

  Barr, Lisa,

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  “Everyone’s story on the ship heading to America was some version of the same—death camp horrors, immense loss, and heroic and criminal means of survival. If you breathed the air of a refugee, you would know he or she had already faced their own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brotherless Night

  a Novel

  Ganeshananthan, V. V.

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  “Imagine the places you grew up, the places you studied, places that belonged to your people, burned. But I should stop pretending that I know you. Perhaps you do not have to imagine. Perhaps your library, too, went up in smoke.” Tamil genocide…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Dream of Shadows

  Lee, Steve N.,

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  “Some people picked up a rifle to become a freedom fighter, but her resistance was going to be different – she was going to survive to tell the world of the atrocities she’d witnessed.” Holocaust (1941-1945)

• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

  a Novel

  Karunatilaka, Shehan,

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  “Evil is not what we should fear. Creatures with power acting in their own interest: that is what should make us shudder.” Tamil genocide (1956-2009)

• The Midwife of Auschwitz

  Stuart, Anna

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  “But love cannot be ravaged by guns and tanks and evil ideologies. Love cannot be cut off by distance or absence, by hunger or cold, by beatings or degradations. And love can reach out across blood, whatever the Nazis believed, and make connections…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not Without My Sister

  Kummerow, Marion

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  "I love you Mindel. I promise I will find you again!" Holocaust (1941-1945)

• Under a Sunburnt Sky

  Mirren, Lilly,

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  "Evil lies hidden beneath the surface. It festers and grows when fed with hate. But before the evil manifests like a shark's fin slicing through the ocean's water, it's impossible to foretell which, good or evil, each heart will choose. Until it's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Daughter's Keeper

  Geffen, Adiva,

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  "I met my beloved, Johann, at university in Warsaw. I remember the very second, the precise moment. I stood beside the second-story window of the Faculty of Medicine building which looked out over the garden and I noticed a young officer walking in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remote Sympathy

  Chidgey, Catherine, 1970-

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  "We did not believe them ... This was not real. The figure swinging from the gallows was a dummy filled with straw. Those were animal bones in the ovens. And there must have been an epidemic; something that had spread so quickly it couldn't be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Forest of Vanishing Stars

  Harmel, Kristin

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  “Humans had a responsibility to do more than just protect themselves. In the face of evil, they were compelled to save each other.” Holocaust (1941-1945)

• Isaac's Beacon

  a Novel

  Robbins, David L., 1954-

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  “The desert keeps a still tongue. When it does speak, it comes for your life.” Holocaust (1941-1945)