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When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the...
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement into the night. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god which burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her...
Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction, poetry,...
The inspiring true story of an indomitable librarian's journey from Nazi Germany to Seattle to Vietnam--all for the love of books. Growing up under Fascist censorship in Nazi Germany, Ruth Rappaport absorbed a forbidden community of ideas in...
"A memoir by Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz"--Provided by publisher.