19 Books About Refugees That Everyone Should Read

"The Farm in The Green Mountains" ($16, originally $19)

Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband Carl fled Berlin with their two children in 1933, after the Nazis banned Carl's plays. The family — accustomed to sophisticated Weimar Germany — resettled in Vermont, where they learned to raise chickens and pigs. Alice acclimated to her new life with humor, and the good sense to write it all down. This first-person account, originally published in German in 1949, has been reissued, giving new life to a rare story of good fortune from the WWII era.