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TitleThe Gift
AuthorEger, Dr. Edith Eva
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category 1Self-Help
ISBN-139781982143091
US Price$27
CDN Price$36
Pages256
Title StatusAS
“I will be forever changed by Edith Eger’s story.” —Oprah

A practical and inspirational guide to stopping destructive patterns and imprisoning thoughts to find freedom and joy in life—now updated to address the challenges of the pandemic and a world in crisis.
TitleA Bookshop in Berlin
AuthorFrenkel, Françoise
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781501199851
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages288
Title StatusAS
A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK
WINNER OF THE JQ–WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE

“A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever—and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget.” —People

An “exceptional” (The Wall Street Journal) and “poignant” (The New York Times) book in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, the powerful memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-occupied Europe.
TitleThe Nazis Knew My Name
AuthorHellinger, Magda
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781982181239
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages336
Title StatusAS
The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife.
TitleThe Choice
AuthorEger, Dr. Edith Eva
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781501130793
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages320
Title StatusAS
A New York Times Bestseller

“I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.”—Oprah

“Dr. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well.” —Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

“Dr. Edith Eva Eger is my kind of hero. She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to transform it into a powerful gift—one she uses to help others heal.” —Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Christopher Award
TitleThe Escape Artist
AuthorFremont, Helen
Sub-ImprintGallery Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781982113612
US Price$16.99
CDN Price$22.99
Pages352
Title StatusAS
A luminous new memoir from the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller After Long Silence, The Escape Artist has been lauded by New York Times bestselling author Mary Karr as “beautifully written, honest, and psychologically astute. A must-read.”
TitleHouse of Glass
AuthorFreeman, Hadley
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781501199202
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages352
Title StatusAS
Writer Hadley Freeman investigates her family’s secret history in this “exceptional” (The Washington Post) “masterpiece” (The Daily Telegraph) uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations.
TitleIrena's Children
AuthorMazzeo, Tilar J.
Sub-ImprintGallery Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1History
ISBN-139781476778518
US Price$19.99
CDN Price$26.99
Pages352
Title StatusAS
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
TitleSomething Beautiful Happened
AuthorCorporon, Yvette M
Sub-ImprintHoward Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781501161131
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages328
Title StatusAS
In this “engrossing peek into a little-known chapter of World War II, and one family’s harrowing tale of finding the lost pieces of its own history” (Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar Temptress Solider Spy), a woman sets out to track down the descendants of the Jewish family her grandmother helped hide seventy years earlier.
TitleSurvival In Auschwitz
AuthorLevi, Primo
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139780684826806
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages192
Title StatusAS
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.
TitleWhen Time Stopped
AuthorNeumann, Ariana
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781982106386
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages336
Title StatusAS
In this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard” (Booklist, starred review).