Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Books with anti-war themes have explicit anti-war messages or have been described as having significant anti-war themes or sentiments. Not all of these books have a direct connection to any particular anti-war movement. The list includes fiction and non-fiction, and books for children and younger readers.
Snow Treasure is a children's novel by Marie McSwigan. Set in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II, it recounts the story of several Norwegian children who use sleds to smuggle their country's gold bullion past German guards to a waiting ship, the Cleng Peerson.
Between Shades of Gray, a New York Times Best Seller, is the debut novel of Lithuanian-American novelist Ruta Sepetys.It follows the Stalinist repressions of the mid-20th century and follows the life of a teenage girl Lina as she is deported from her native Lithuania with her mother and younger brother, and the journey they take to a Gulag labor camp in Siberia.
These 15 nonfiction books will please every reader on your list this holiday season, whether they prefer memoirs, histories or essay collections. The 15 best nonfiction books for fans of advice ...
From Leslie Jamison's tender divorce memoir 'Splinters' to books about youth homelessness, racism in mental healthcare, and women who kill, these selections will open your heart and your mind.
The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation there. The book was inspired by accounts of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots escape Nazi territory. [1] [2] The Nightingale entered multiple bestseller lists upon release. As of ...
This is part of the L.A. Times 2022 Gift Guide. See the full guide here.. What makes nonfiction books so tricky as potential gifts is also the most wonderful thing about them: their infinite variety.
This page was last edited on 17 February 2024, at 08:39 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.