A young scientist, trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world, leaves her life behind and sets out through time and space to find happiness.  Through the earthly meetings between her loved ones past and present, to a shocking and satisfying conclusion, Soule channels history, science and drama to create a story of hope, love and possibility. 

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Schumann’s memoir opened a rare window into the previously unknown life of one of Germany’s most renowned musicians, who was a member of the vibrant and illegal Berlin club scene, a part of the cultural revival of postwar Berlin, and a survivor of Theresienstadt (Terezin) and the horrors of Auschwitz.

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Written in response to the 2004 US presidential election, and updated during the 2016 race, this long essay serves as a primer on social and environmental activism and uprisings from the mid-to-late 20th century to the present. Solnit uses this history of protesters, writers, and workers to argue that hope is the necessary catalyst for action. 

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Written through a period of profound personal loss and in the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, Brown’s spiritual insight and life- and spirit-tested wisdom offers a new source for anyone seeking hope and seeking to alleviate suffering within ourselves and our communities. 

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This collection offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets like Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and others. Readers are invited to use poetry as part of their daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance and joy to be found everywhere. 

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Set amid the growing tyranny of Germany’s Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of Gunther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous Jewish musicians who struggled to perform under unimaginable circumstances-and found themselves falling in love in a country bent on destroying them. 

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Through beautifully written narrative essays and prompts, Cyndie shares the microjoys that have kept her going through tough times and shows us how we can learn to see the microjoys in our own lives. Microjoys don’t change the truth of loss or make grief any more convenient, but they allow us to temporarily touch joy, keeping us buoyed and moving forward, one moment at a time. 

Music critic Jeremey Eichler shows how four towering composers–Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten–lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust, and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving, transcendent works of musical scores that echo lost time.

In Warsaw, Poland, in 1942, Mira faces impossible decisions after learning that the Warsaw ghetto is to be “liquidated,” but a group of young people are planning an uprising against their Nazi captors. 

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A family extending from Pakistan to California deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.

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An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration–written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands… while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets of the immigrant experience, the characters decide their own answer to the question “where are you from?” 

Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, three children– Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California– find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.

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Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl from Prague who after being sent to Auschwitz is chosen to protect the eight volumes prisoners have smuggled past the guards.

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The story of a fourteen-year-old Syrian refugee and a thirteen-year-old American boy who are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime.

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After being liberated from the concentration camps, Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor. 

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The angel Uriel and the demon Little Ash have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her, encountering other humans in need of their help along the way.  

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Rhyming text and lift-the-flap surprises celebrate 100 little ways to spread kindness every day. 

A book-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl whose piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister during the Holocaust.

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When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya’s shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.

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Newman’s picture-book biography of violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman emphasizes young Itzhak’s emotional connection to music: he sees rainbows of colors, imagines the personalities of the pieces, and becomes the melodies. While lingering paralysis means that he always performs sitting rather than standing, his disabilities do not prevent him from achieving his musical goals.

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A little fish lost in the ocean must find a spark of light to show it the way home.

Tells the true story of six Jewish children who survived the Holocaust. 

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A biography of the woman who created the Tower of Faces, a powerful exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.