Product Description: "In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father s barbershop. This is the day that will change their lives forever. With the German occupation threatening their family's safety, the boys' parents decide Maurice and Joseph must disguise themselves and flee to their older brothers in the free zone...read more

Product Description: "One of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the US today." — David Foster WallaceOne of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark case involving treason and anti-Semitism...read more

A New York Times Bestseller -- Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. But Sarah has locked her brother in their favorite hiding place and kept the key, thinking she will return soon. Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s sixtieth anniversary, American journalist Julia Jarmond stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah.

Set in France in 1096 during the First Crusade, a spirited twelve-year-old girl, the granddaughter of a great Rabbi, defies prejudice and, placing her faith in her guardian angel, tends to an injured Crusader, placing the lives of her family and friends in great danger. Reprint.

An ancient manuscript called 'The Dream of Scipio' links three separate centuries--the fifth, the end of the Roman Empire; the fourteenth, the time of the Black Death; and the twentieth during World War II--and three stories of love, all set in Provence.