Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English
10 best books like Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English (Natasha Solomons): The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise, The Constant Queen, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, Gifts of War, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, Quiet Americans, Blue Nude, Mr. Chartwell, Displaced Persons, The Court of the Midnight King
| Author | Julia Stuart |
| ISBN | 0385533284 |
Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise...
| Author | Joanna Courtney |
| ISBN | 1447281969 |
'You need not take England without me, Hari, because I will be your constant queen - there with you; there for you.' Elizaveta is princess of Kiev, but that doesn't stop her chasing adventure. Defying conventions, she rides the rapids of the Dneiper alongside her royal brothers and longs to rule in her...
| Author | Nicholas Drayson |
| ISBN | 0547152582 |
For the past three years, Mr. Malik has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, a woman who leads the weekly bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society. Just as Malik is getting up the nerve to invite Rose to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball (the premier social occasion of the Kenyan calendar),...
| Author | Mackenzie Ford |
| ISBN | 0385528957 |
During the Christmas Truce of 1914, Hal Montgomery, a British soldier, is given a photo by a German soldier, Wilhelm Wetzlar, and they make a pact. Hal promises to find his enemy’s English girlfriend, Sam, and let her know her fiancé is alive and thinking of her. Several weeks later, Hal—now injured—is...
| Author | Andrzej Szczypiorski |
| ISBN | 0802135021 |
In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: she has blue eyes and blond hair. With these, and a set of false papers, she has slipped out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, until...
| Author | Erika Dreifus |
| ISBN | 0982708424 |
A high-ranking Nazi's wife and a Jewish doctor in prewar Berlin. A Jewish immigrant soldier and the German POWs he is assigned to supervise. A refugee returning to Europe for the first time and the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A son of survivors and technology's potential...
| Author | Elizabeth Rosner |
| ISBN | 1439173087 |
A model sculpts the air with her body. Unlikely subject for novel-length treatment, but in the hands of a poet, the relationship between body and absence, pose and pencil is elegant philosophy. The model, an Israeli raised on a kibbutz who is scarred by her army service, maps her new identity in the empty...
| Author | Rebecca Hunt |
| ISBN | 1400069408 |
July 1964. Chartwell House, Kent: Winston Churchill wakes at dawn. There’s a dark, mute “presence” in the room that focuses on him with rapt concentration.
It’s Mr. Chartwell.
Soon after, in London, Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons, goes to answer...
| Author | Ghita Schwarz |
| ISBN | 0061881902 |
An astonishing tale of grief and anger, memory and survival, Displaced Persons marks the arrival of a supremely gifted new literary talent, Ghita Schwarz. Schwarz’s powerful story of a group of Holocaust survivors — “displaced persons” —
struggling to remake their lives and cope...
The Court of the Midnight King
RICHARD III - the most famous and eternally fascinating king of all time. With the real-life discovery of his remains buried in Leicester, England, interest in King Richard III is at fever pitch. Was he Shakespeare's charismatic villain, or a hero - or is the truth more complicated? Freda Warrington’s...
| Author | Lawrence Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0982411707 |
House of Ghosts is a gripping mystery that takes readers through some of the most shrouded history of the twentieth century. In August 1944, Allied forces launched a top-secret aerial assault on the I. G. Farben oil and rubber plant, the flight plan taking bombers directly over the Auschwitz-Birkenau...
Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier’s man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war but Kitson is determined to make his mark. Under the tutelage of his hard-bitten Irish boss Cracknell, and assisted...
| Author | Samantha Bruce-Benjamin |
| ISBN | 1439153949 |
In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha Bruce-Benjamin’s brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share the poignant tale of love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal that binds them forever.
Have we all not wished...
| Author | Anna Porter |
| ISBN | 1553652223 |
The true, heart-wrenching tale of Hungary's own Oskar Schindler, a lawyer and journalist named Rezso Kasztner who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during the last chaotic days of World War II -- and the ultimate price he paid.
In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann,...
| Author | Ron Hansen |
| ISBN | 0060932201 |
Hitler's Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli...
| Author | Sam Christer |
| ISBN | 0751550914 |
What if King Arthur was more than a myth?
On a starlit summer’s night in the Welsh mountains, an old man is torn from sleep as an ancient prophecy unfolds.
On the other side of the Atlantic, an American antiques dealer lies dying on the floor of his shop, blood ebbing from a fatal stab...
| Author | Laura Wilson |
| ISBN | 0752876260 |
Summer, 1944: After almost five years of conflict, London's exhausted inhabitants, battered by the new menace of Hitler's V1 bombs, are living hand-to-mouth in a world of dust and dereliction, and war-weary.
DI Ted Stratton is no exception. Still haunted by the memory of Diana Calthrop,...
| Author | Madison Smartt Bell |
| ISBN | 0375424881 |
From the author of All Souls’ Rising which The Washington Post called “A serious historical novel that reads like a dream,” comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals.
With the same eloquence, dramatic...
| Author | Joseph Kertes |
| ISBN | 0670066699 |
March 1944: War's darkest period descends upon Hungary's Jews. By the time it ends in January 1945, over half a million Jews will have been murdered. "Gratitude "tells the story of that period, through the eyes of the wealthy Beck family, whose lives and loves are saved and lost. At the center of it all...
| Author | Peter Manseau |
| ISBN | 1416538704 |
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Itsik Malpesh is a poet and a dreamer who writes endlessly about his true love, Sasha, whom he has yet to meet. When Itsik's poems get him into trouble in czarist Russia, he begins an odyssey -- with a picture of his beloved Sasha in his coat. Her image stays...
| Author | Marianne Fredriksson |
| ISBN | 0753810751 |
Bad Mother No. 1 - Karin's mother had so many children before she (Karin) was born so she was an unwanted child and her mother hated her. Her father loved her, but she was born when her father was old already and he died when she was still very young.
Bad Mother No. 2 - Inga was taking care of her old,...
| Author | Thomas Steinbeck |
| ISBN | 1439168253 |
I have to admit that when I picked up a copy of this book that I was quite skeptical about what it would be like. After all, anyone who is the offspring of a world-renowned author has huge shoes to fill and high expectations to meet if they are to ever be viewed as anything other than someone setting out to ride...
| Author | Thomas Savage |
| ISBN | 0316610909 |
"The Sheep Queen" is a Western epic in miniature, the story of Emma Russell Sweringen, known as the Sheep Queen of Idaho ("surely one of the most fascinating characters in current fiction" -- Publishers Weekly); the daughter who disappointed her; the grandson who adored her; and the granddaughter,...
| Author | Jim Powell |
| ISBN | 0143117262 |
The Breaking of Eggs is the story of the curmudgeonly Feliks Zhokovski, Polish by birth, Communist at heart, who at age 61 finds that just about everything he has based his life on is crumbling. Separated from him family as a child when the Nazis invaded Poland, Feliks is currently living in Paris and his...
| Author | Dara Horn |
| ISBN | 0393325261 |
A young woman's coming of age, a romantic love story, and a spiritual journey—each infused with the lessons of history.
In the Image is an extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers "a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and...
