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  • We Came Home

    The Firsthand Stories of Vietnam POWs

    by Barbara Powers Wyatt ...
    In 1973, American prisoners of war (POWs) were released from the terrible prisons of North Vietnam. How did the men survive the years of solitary confinement and the brutal torture that was all too common? After their return through the U.S. military's Operation Homecoming, the POWs shared their individual stories in letters to the American people. These letters shed light on their faith in God ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Promise

    The Moving Story of a Family in the Holocaust

    by Barbara Powers ...
    A Holocaust survivor's own story, told specially for young readers.This is the remarkable true story of a young Jewish girl and her brother caught in a world turned upside down by the Nazis during the Second World War. Eva Schloss describes her happy early childhood in Vienna with her kind and loving parents and her older brother Heinz, whom she adored. But when the Nazis marched into Austria ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • The Henchmen of Icon

    The Reckoning

    by Barbara Powers Doody ...
    The Henchmen orphans, now grown up, carried a secret which could resurrect ghosts of the past which could expose the four of them for a murder charge.. In an attempt to keep their twenty-five year old secret, they called an urgent meeting to discuss how to cover it up. They didn't plan on the evil nun being paroled from prison, or for any of the other crazy things happening to them, but there it ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • THE HENCHMEN OF ICON

    by Barbara Powers Doody ...
    Deep in the remote woods of Maine stands Black Hollow Orphanage, a crumbling institution cloaked in silence and secrets. Here, four boys-Miles, Billy, Charlie, and Tom-live under the oppressive rule of Sister Margret, a cold-hearted nun whose cruelty masks a chilling agenda. Isolated from the outside world, the boys cling to each other for survival, bound by a blood oath forged after a childhood ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Shadow of His Hand

    A Story Based on the Life of Holocaust Survivor Anita Dittman

    by Wendy G Lawton ...
    Series series Daughters of the Faith Series
    Young Anita Dittman's world crumbles as Hitler begins his rise to power in Germany, but because she's a Christian and only half-Jewish, Anita feels sure she and her family are safe from "the Final Solution". She couldn't have been more wrong. Shadow of His Hand is an inspirational young adult historical fiction book based on the real-life story of Anita Dittman, a Holocaust survivor. It follows ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • I Am a Star

    Child of the Holocaust

    by Inge Auerbacher ...
    The Nazis tried to destroy Inge's life--but they could not break her spirit.Inge Auerbacher's childhood was as happy and peaceful as any other German child's--until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge's family was Jewish, she and her parents were sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Auerbachers defied death for three years, and were finally freed in 1945. In her ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust

    by Elly Gross ...
    Told in short, gripping chapters, this is an unforgettable true story of survival. The author was featured in Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. At just 15, her mother, and brother were taken from their Romanian town to the Auschwitz-II/Birkenau concentration camp. When they arrived at Auschwitz, a soldier waved Elly to the right; her mother and brother to the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Upstairs Room (Winner of the Newbery Honor)

    by Johanna Reiss ...
    Series Book 1 - The Upstairs Room
    This Newbery Honor-winning book shows us that in the steady courage of a young girl lies a profound strength that can transcend the horrors of war. This is the true story of a girl's extraordinary survival during the German occupation of Holland of World War II. Annie was only ten years old, but because she was Jewish, she was forced to leave her family, her home, and everything she knew. Annie ... Read more

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  • I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree

    A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor

    by Laura Hillman ...
    "HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD."In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany--Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Six weeks later he was sent home; ashes in an urn.Soon another letter arrived. "The Gestapo has notified your brothers and me that we are to be deported to the East--whatever that means." Hannelore knew: labor camps, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • I Have Lived a Thousand Years

    Growing Up in the Holocaust

    by Livia Bitton-Jackson ...
    A Holocaust survivor recalls the terrible upheaval her family faced under Nazi occupation in this remarkable memoir that presents a story of cruelty and suffering, but also of hope, faith, perseverance, and love.What is death all about? What is life all about?So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

    by Irene Gut Opdyke ...
    IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”—School Library Journal, StarredA Book Sense Top Ten PickA Publisher’s Weekly Choice of the Year’s Best BooksA</e... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Journey Back: Sequel to the Newbery Honor Book The Upstairs Room

    by Johanna Reiss ...
    Series Book 2 - The Upstairs Room
    The moving sequel to the Newbery Honor book, The Upstairs Room. After years of hiding from the Nazis during World War II, Annie is told the war is over and she must return home. Despite all odds she has survived the war, but can she save her family from being ripped apart when she returns back to her war-ravaged town. In this fascinating autobiographical account, Johanna Reiss shows us that ... Read more

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