Author of The Devil Wears Prada Shares 7 Books You MUST Read This Summer

For 50 years, Trudy's mother has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Now a professor of German history, Trudy finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life. Those Who Save Us is a profound page-turner that combines a passionate, doomed love story and a touching mother-daughter drama.

When Marjorie leaves New York at 19 for the job of her dreams, she finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest — and the most destructive — love of her life. Marjorie Morningstar is a classic love story rich with humor.

On Oct. 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes — only 16 of 45 made it off the mountain alive. This is the story of the 10 excruciating weeks they suffered and one of the most astonishing true adventures of the 20th century.

In Nicholas and Alexandra, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Robert Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia. Set against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, it tells the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.

Sweeping from the Central European countryside just before World War II to Paris to contemporary Williamsburg, I Am Forbidden brings to life four generations of one Satmar Jewish family. This extraordinary novel explores what happens when unwavering love, unyielding law, and centuries of tradition collide.

Grace is a writer who calls upon women to pay attention to their first impressions of men in her forthcoming book You Should Have Known. But weeks before her book is published, a chain of terrible revelations occurs in her own life: a violent death and a missing husband.

Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu departs military-ruled Nigeria for America, where she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Fearless, gripping, darkly funny, and tender, Americanah is a richly told story spanning three continents.

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