"Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when he falls into a complicated relationship with the letter's recipient, he becomes privy to a secret that will alter the course of his-and his family's-history. From the small Hungarian town of Konyár to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the despair...

Beth Lowe receives a scrapbook from her long-estranged mother entitled The Book of Summers, filled with photographs and mementos recording the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary--before it all came brutally to an end when she turned sixteen.

"One winter in Budapest during the Second World War, an Italian closes his ice cream shop for the season, using the storefront to hide his Jewish friends and neighbors, including a boy named Peter. Based on a true story"--Verso page.

"Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Anna would do anything to belong. But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister's debutante spell--an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic--Anna finds herself exiled to her family's once...

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Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse...

Hiding as a Catholic during World War II, Jakob reveals that he is Jewish, a choice that sends him to Auschwitz where he plots revenge against the Catholic friend that he feels abandoned him, but when he is liberated, he uncovers the truth.

"The Binding is broken. Mátyás is alive. And Anna Arden is on the run. It seems, yet again, that breaking the Binding has shattered the world. And the only hope of mending it is Anna and Mátyás, working together. But it's never that simple, is it? The praetheria, the creatures once held captive by the spell, are now waging war against the Austro-Hungarian empire. And they are holding Noémi hostage--using her life to manipulate Anna and Mátyás,...

Traces the World War II experiences of a wealthy Jewish family in Budapest, told from the perspective of their son Paul, a lawyer, whose chance meeting with a visiting Swedish man is pivotal to the fates of countless Jewish citizens.

A Hungarian Jewish family of talented musicians escapes Nazi persecution during World War II.