War Refugee

This timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge. Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe.

A fascinating and original portrait of the escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and black citizenship. By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as “contraband camps.” These were...

A Korean mother and son navigate wars, displacement, and identity across decades and borders in a moving multigenerational saga by the author of White Mulberry. In 1943 Japan, the Pacific War rages on. Miyoung, a Korean-born single mother and nurse, defies an order to serve in the Imperial...

For Deanne and her correctional facility work crew, the night the stars fell ended everything. The godlike invaders brought death to any who opposed them. Those that served were changed forever. To save her friends and herself, Deanne will have to find the one creature who dares to stand against the invaders. 

This #1 New York Times bestselling novel-in-verse from world-renowned poet Nikita Gill is a richly imagined retelling of the Greek myth of Hekate, a goddess of the underworld. Perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and Alexandra Bracken. Born into a world on fire, Godling Hekate has never known...

A Thousand Miles to Freedom is a gripping, deeply human true story of one young Afghan girl’s impossible journey across mountains, borders, sea and war zones in pursuit of the freedom she was told she could never have. She was born into a world shaped by conflict, tradition, and the constant threat of violence, she grew up determined to carve a path beyond the limits placed on Afghan girls. From surviving abusive cultural norms to becoming a nurse through sheer resilience, her life is marked by extraordinary courage. But when she is forced into an intolerable arranged marriage, she makes ...

This world has declared war on our children. Every day, on a multitude of battlefronts, Satan is deploying weapons of mass corruption against our children. Modern culture has been systematically designed with an agenda that is anti-God, anti-Christ, and anti-Scripture, intended to corrupt young...

Now an HBO Original Limited Series on Max, and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, a startling debut novel featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent years: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The winner of...

She carried diamonds across borders. One mistake, and she almost didn’t come home. Antwerp, Belgium, 1942. Lili Hamilton was never going to be a dutiful daughter. The heiress to a Kent coal mine walks out of her engagement, falls for a brilliant, dangerous communist, and sets out to become a war reporter. She is determined to be more than the daughter of Madeleine, the runaway countess who defied the Germans in In Picardy’s Fields. But the war she meant to write about pulls her straight in. In occupied Antwerp, a Jewish diamond family trusts her with everything the Nazis want from them:...

Franklin D. Roosevelt carried the presidency through economic collapse and global war. His confidence helped sustain a nation, even as the demands of office exposed the limits of his power and the cost of his choices. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The War Leader’s Toll follows the life behind that extraordinary presidency, from the security of Hyde Park and the apprenticeship of Albany to paralysis, political recovery, the New Deal, and the struggle to build an Allied victory. It explores how Roosevelt used communication, experimentation, and personal relationships to turn public trust into ...

Frankie Elkin is called to Tucson, Arizona to find a missing Afghan refugee whose friend suspects she is in grave danger—before it is too late—in this mystery thriller from a New York Times bestselling author. “Timely and completely gripping.” —Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling...

London, 1933 As darkness gathers across Europe, one small cinema becomes a beacon of hope—and a target for hatred. When cinema manager William Bishop begins quietly helping Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, he transforms the struggling Majestic Cinema into something far more dangerous than a neighborhood picture house. With the help of his brilliant projectionist Lily Carter and a determined community of ordinary Londoners, William creates an underground network that saves lives—one family at a time. But as their humanitarian work grows, so does the threat from Tommy Carter's ...

The extraordinary account of The New York Times's effort to save hundreds of lives during the 2021 Afghanistan evacuation, highlighting four exceptional young women who, having escaped the fate of their fellow countrywomen back home, now face the challenges of forging a new life in a new land, a...

A murdered diplomat leads to ...America’s unfinished war. As FBI special agent Jake Maguire rises through the ranks of the Bureau, he finds himself faced with the most challenging case of his career. When a high-ranking diplomat is brutally assassinated in front of Jake, he resolves to learn the identity of the killer and learn the reason behind the death. As he delves deeper into the investigation, Jake realizes that the assassination is just the tip of the iceberg, and that he must follow a trail that leads him from the United States to Europe and the Far East. But Jake's pursuit of ...

After the murder of her best friend, a librarian’s search for answers leads back to her own dark secrets in this "searing and timely" novel about a woman transformed by war, family, vengeance, and love, from the author of the beloved bestseller The Life We Bury (Kristin Harmel, author of The...

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—delivering an inspiring vision for better, human-centered, equitable technology. Timnit Gebru has been present at nearly every inflection point in tech’s...

Gold Medal Winner, Historical Fiction: Romance -- 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) He survived the POW camp by holding onto hope. She survived the war by letting it go. In 1956, more than a decade after the end of World War II, Hans Becker is finally released from a Soviet POW camp and returns to Germany. The reunion is disheartening—his beloved Dresden is largely blackened rubble, and his feelings of disorientation and melancholy hinder his attempt to revive the life—and love—he left behind. Elise, the once delicate teenager whose memory Hans carried in his heart, has, ...

Junior Library Guild Selection * New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens * Goodreads Choice Awards Nonfiction Finalist * Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books for Teens: Nonfiction * 2018 Texas Topaz Nonfiction List * YALSA's 2018 Quick Picks List * Bank Street's 2018 Best...

Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting · A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice “This is a book of radical empathy, crossing many borders—not just borders that separate nations, but also borders of form, borders of meaning, and borders of possibility. It is...

The deadliest shipwreck of World War II began with a vessel built to advertise the promise of Nazi Germany. On 30 January 1945, the Wilhelm Gustloff left Gotenhafen carrying refugees, wounded servicemen, naval personnel and crew away from the collapsing Eastern Front. That evening, the Soviet submarine S-13 moved into position and fired four torpedoes. Three struck. Within about an hour, the former cruise liner had disappeared beneath the freezing Baltic Sea, taking thousands of people with it. Wilhelm Gustloff: The Deadliest Shipwreck of World War II traces the complete history of the ...