Ellen Feldman

"Masterful. Magnificent. A passionate story of survival and a real page turner. This story will stay with me for a long time." —Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey Living through World War II working in a Paris bookstore with her young daughter, Vivi, and fighting for her life, Charlotte is no victim, she is a survivor. But can she survive the next chapter of her life? Alternating between wartime Paris and 1950s New York publishing, Ellen Feldman's Paris Never Leaves You is an extraordinary story of resilience, love, and impossible choices, exploring how survival never comes without a cost. The war is over, but the past is never past.

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Paris Never Leaves You

From the author of Paris Never Leaves You, Ellen Feldman's The Living and the Lost is a gripping story of a young German Jewish woman who returns to Allied Occupied Berlin from America to face the past and unexpected future “A deeply satisfying and truly adult novel.” —Margot Livesey, New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy Millie (Meike) Mosbach and her brother David, manage to escape to the States just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister in Berlin. Millie attends Bryn Mawr on a special scholarship for non-Aryan German girls and graduates to a magazine job in Philadelphia. David enlists in the army and is eventually posted to the top-secret Camp Ritchie in Maryland, which trains German-speaking men for intelligence work. Now they are both back in their former hometown, haunted by ghosts and hoping against hope to find their family. Millie, works in the office responsible for rooting out the most dedicated Nazis from publishing; she is consumed with rage at her former country and its citizens, though she is finding it more difficult to hate in proximity. David works trying to help displaced persons build new lives, while hiding his more radical nighttime activities from his sister. Like most of their German-born American colleagues, they suffer from conflicts of rage and guilt at their own good fortune, except for Millie’s boss, Major Harry Sutton, who seems much too eager to be fair to the Germans. Living and working in bombed-out Berlin, a latter day Wild West where drunken soldiers brawl; the desperate prey on the unsuspecting; spies ply their trade; werewolves, as unrepentant Nazis were called, scheme to rise again; black markets thrive, and forbidden fraternization is rampant, Millie must come to terms with a decision she made as a girl in a moment of crisis, and with the enigmatic sometimes infuriating Major Sutton who is mysteriously understanding of her demons. Atmospheric and page-turning, The Living and the Lost is a story of love, survival, and forgiveness of others and of self.

The Living and the Lost

In the spirit of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank, the provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood—an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at great personal cost, shaped the sexual landscape we inhabit today. The daughter of a hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free thinker and a mother worn down by thirteen children, Margaret Sanger vowed her life would be different. Trained as a nurse, she fought for social justice beside labor organizers, anarchists, socialists, and other progressives, eventually channeling her energy to one singular cause: legalizing contraception. It was a battle that would pit her against puritanical, patriarchal lawmakers, send her to prison again and again, force her to flee to England, and ultimately change the lives of women across the country and around the world. This complex enigmatic revolutionary was at once vain and charismatic, generous and ruthless, sexually impulsive and coolly calculating—a competitive, self-centered woman who championed all women, a conflicted mother who suffered the worst tragedy a parent can experience. From opening the first illegal birth control clinic in America in 1916 through the founding of Planned Parenthood to the arrival of the Pill in the 1960s, Margaret Sanger sacrificed two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom. With cameos by such legendary figures as Emma Goldman, John Reed, Big Bill Haywood, H. G. Wells, and the love of Margaret’s life, Havelock Ellis, this richly imagined portrait of a larger-than-life woman is at once sympathetic to her suffering and unsparing of her faults. Deeply insightful, Terrible Virtue is Margaret Sanger’s story as she herself might have told it.

Terrible Virtue

A fictional account of FDR's romance with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, follows their pre-World War I affair, its impact on his marriage, and FDR and Mercer's reacquaintance years later as he prepared for an unprecedented third term. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Lucy

Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. When two white girls emerge from another freight car, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. Told through the eyes of a young journalist who fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, Scottsboro is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world.

Scottsboro

Follows the stories of three young couples whose lives are irrevocably changed in the years following World War II, a period during which they struggle with difficult losses and witness profound transformations in American culture. By the award-nominated author of The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank.

Next to Love

Trouble with You

"During the Cold War, many liberal anti-communist writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals ended up working for organizations that were CIA fronts. CIA protocol dictated that one individual in the various organizations would be investigated, sworn to secrecy, and told about the CIA connection and funding. That individual was, in Agency parlance, witting. Everyone else was unwitting. The Unwitting is about a husband who is witting, a wife who is unwitting, and the unraveling of her life when she discovers that the person she is closest to in the world, the husband she loved and trusted, has betrayed her not with another woman but with an allegiance"--

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The unwitting

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Charlotte vive em Paris com a filha, Vivi, e trabalha em uma livraria. Como milhares de parisienses sob a ocupação alemã, ela enfrenta toda sorte de dificuldades para sobreviver e alimentar sua criança, nascida no início do conflito. Uma série de acontecimentos – e uma história de amor impensável – perpassa sua rotina na loja. Com a vitória dos Aliados e a retirada dos alemães, ela se muda para a América como judia exilada e inicia uma nova vida em uma típica editora nova-iorquina. Alternando entre a Paris do tempo da guerra e a Nova York dos anos 1950, Paris é para sempre, de Ellen Feldman, conta uma história extraordinária de resiliência, amor e escolhas impossíveis, escolhas que podem sempre cobrar um preço alto. A guerra acabou, mas o passado nunca passa. Um belo romance que revela muitas nuances de cada personagem, de suas relações, de suas opções e impossibilidades, desconstruindo julgamentos precipitados e penetrando fundo nos limites de cada um. _______________________________________ "Magistral. Magnífico. Uma apaixonante história de sobrevivência e uma leitura empolgante. Esta história vai permanecer comigo por muito tempo." Heather Morris, autora de O tatuador de Auschwitz e A viagem de Cilka

Paris é para sempre

Betrayal comes in many forms . . . At the height of the Cold War, words are weapons and secrecy reigns. These are challenging times to be a writer and a wife, as Nell Benjamin knows only too well. One bright November day in 1963, the dazzling young president arrives in Texas and Nell receives a phonecall that overturns the world as she knows it. In the shocking aftermath, whilst America mourns, Nell must come to terms with both a tragedy and a betrayal that shatters every illusion of the man she thought she knew better than anyone else. Resonant, illuminating and utterly absorbing, The Unwitting is about the lies we tell, the secrets we keep and the power of both truth and love.

The Unwitting

When nine black youths are falsely accused of sexual assault and other crimes in 1931 Alabama, a young journalist struggles to save them from being sentenced to death, an effort that is complicated by the shifting testimony of a key witness and the journalist's own past demons.

Looking for Love

Millie (Meike) Mosbach and her brother, David, manage to escape to the States just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister in Berlin. Millie attends Bryn Mawr on a special scholarship for non-Aryan German girls and graduates to a magazine job in Philadelphia. David enlists in the army and is eventually posted to the top-secret Camp Ritchie in Maryland, which trains German-speaking men for intelligence work.

God Bless The Child by Ellen Feldman released on Nov 24, 1999 is available now for purchase.

God Bless the Child

Peter van Pels foi companheiro de esconderijo de Anne Frank em Amsterdã e morreu um pouco antes da data de sua liberação. Mas e se ele tivesse sobrevivido? A autora Ellen Feldman cria uma história emocionante e dá novos contornos à alma de um homem que sonhava ser feliz atravessando o Atlântico - em 16 de fevereiro de 1944, Anne menciona em seu diário que o amigo planejava ser feliz mudando-se para os Estados Unidos.

O menino que amava Anne Frank

On February 16,1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided to her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself entirely. This is the story of what might have happened if the boy in hiding survived to become a man. Peter arrives in America, the land of self-creation; he flourishes in business, marries, and raises a family. He thrives in the present, plans for the future, and has no past. But when The Diary of a Young Girlis published to worldwide acclaim and gives rise to bitter infighting, he realises the cost of forgetting. Based on extensive research of Peter van Pels and the strange and disturbing life Anne Frank's diary took on after her death, this is a novel about the memory of death, the death of memory, and the inescapability of the past. ‘This is a brave novel in the strongest sense of the word, carefully treading mined terrain to thought-provoking and memorable effect’ Observer ‘In this thoughtful novel, Feldman imagines how Peter's life might have turned out had he survived the war. It's an account of his struggle to deal with the past in the face of public obsession with the girl he loved. Fascinating and moving’ New Woman ‘An inventive postscript to the famous story’ Financial Times

The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank

The war is over, but the past is never past ... Paris, 1944. Charlotte Foret is working in a tiny bookstore in Nazi-occupied Paris struggling to stay alive and keep her baby Vivi safe. Every day they live through is a miracle until Vivi becomes gravely ill. In desperation, Charlotte accepts help from an unlikely saviour - and her life is changed forever. Charlotte is no victim. She is a survivor. But the truth of what happened in Paris is something she knows she can never share with anyone, including her daughter. Can she ever really leave Paris behind, and embrace the next chapter of her life? Seamlessly interweaving Charlotte's past in wartime Paris and her present in the 1950s world of New York publishing, Paris Never Leaves You is a heartbreakingly moving and unforgettable story of resilience, love - and impossible choices.

For fans of The Light After the War, a young woman haunted by a heartbreaking secret finds hope and forgiveness in a city shattered by war. Young Meike Mosbach and her brother escape Berlin just before the horror of Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister to follow them to America. But their family never arrives. Haunted by their loss, Meike becomes Millie and graduates from college to work as a magazine journalist while David enlists in the army to work in intelligence. After the war, they both return to a shattered Berlin, hoping against hope to find their family. Postwar Berlin is a wild west where drunken soldiers brawl, spies ply their trade and 'werewolves' - unrepentant Nazis - scheme to rise again. Consumed with rage at her former country, Millie's job for the army rooting out Nazis from regaining a voice seems the perfect outlet. But her anger begins to thaw as she is faced with the daily reality of what the war has done to everyone, and the enigmatic Major Harry Sutton, who seems too eager to be fair to the Germans and far too perceptive about Millie. In the rubble of postwar Berlin, Millie must come to terms with a devastating secret and find the courage to embrace love - and a new beginning. Praise for Return to Berlin 'A gorgeous, shattering novel that could not be more timely about the dark damage of hatred and the persistence of love.' Caroline Leavitt, NYT bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow 'A beautiful, atmospheric novel that transports us to Occupied Berlin, a perfect setting in which to examine the contours of shame, as well as the possibilities of forgiveness.' Elizabeth J. Church, author of The Atomic Weight of Love and All the Beautiful Girls 'Ellen Feldman masters the two great challenges of the historical novel, mapping the human heart as expertly as she does another time and place. Her story sears, uplifts and compels. A terrific read, brilliantly written.' Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley 'Postwar Berlin springs vividly to life in this engrossing, emotionally powerful novel ... Beautifully written, rich with detail and a brilliantly drawn cast of characters, from a writer with an unrivaled grasp of history and the human heart.' Liza Gyllenhaal, author of Local Knowledge 'A deeply satisfying and truly adult novel.' Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy Praise for Paris Never Leaves You 'Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long time.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Return to Berlin

»Fans von Anthony Doerrs ›Alles Licht, das wir nicht sehen‹ und Kristin Hannahs ›Die Nachtigall‹ sollten diesen Roman unbedingt lesen.« Booklist Ein fesselndes Leseerlebnis über den Überlebenswillen einer jungen Mutter im besetzten Paris. Frankreich, 1944. Charlotte Foret arbeitet in einer kleinen Buchhandlung im besetzten Paris. Auf sich allein gestellt kämpft sie nicht nur um ihr eigenes Überleben, sondern auch um das ihrer kleinen Tochter Vivi. Als diese erkrankt, nimmt Charlotte die Hilfe des deutschen Arztes Julian an. Es ist ein Akt der Verzweiflung, der sie das Leben kosten könnte. Für Julian hingegen wird Charlotte zur großen, unmöglichen Liebe. Kurz vor Kriegsende, den Tod vor Augen, gelingt es ihm, die junge Frau und sich selbst zu retten. Charlotte emigriert nach New York und glaubt, die Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen zu können. Bis Vivi beginnt, Fragen zu stellen ... »Meisterhaft. Großartig. Eine hochemotionale Überlebensgeschichte und ein wahrer Pageturner.« Heather Morris (Autorin des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers »Der Tätowierer von Auschwitz«)

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