Ellen Feldman

In Alabama, 1931, a posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and as fast as anyone can say Jim Crow, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. A young journalist, whose only connection to the incident is her overheated social conscience, fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past. Intertwining historical actors and fictional characters, stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism into an explosive brew, "Scottsboro" is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world, destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the worst and the best in the men and women who fought for the cause.

Its 1941. Babe throws like a boy, thinks for herself, and never expects to escape the poor section of her quiet Massachusetts town. Then World War II breaks out, and everything changes. Her friend Grace, married to a reporter on the local paper, fears being left alone with her infant daughter when her husband ships out; Millie, the third member of their childhood trio, now weds the boy who always refused to settle down; and Babe wonders if she should marry Claude, who even as a child could never harm a living thing. As the war rages abroad, life on the home front undergoes its own battles and victories; and when the men return, and civilian life resumes, nothing can go back to quite the way it was. From postwar traumas to womens rights, racial injustice to anti-Semitism, Babe, Grace, and Millie experience the dislocations, the acute pains, and the exhilaration of a society in flux. Along the way, they will learn what it means to be a wife, a mother, a friend, a fighter, and a survivor. Beautiful, startling, and heartbreaking, Next to Love is a love letter to the brave women who shaped a nations destiny.

Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long time Heather Morris, bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz on A Bookshop in ParisA young German Jewish woman returns to Allied Occupied Berlin from America to face the past and unexpected future. Young Meike Millie Mosbach and her brother David escape Berlin just before the horror of Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister to follow them to America. But their family never arrives. After the war they return to a shattered city, 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, Millies job rooting out Nazis from publishing seems the perfect outlet. But her anger begins to thaw as she is faced with the reality of what the war has done to everyone, guilty at their own good fortune. Everyone except for Millies boss, 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 is forced to confront a devastating secret and find the courage to embrace love and a new beginning. Atmospheric and page-turning, Return to Berlin is a story of love, survival, and forgiveness of others and of self.A deeply satisfying and truly adult novelMargot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma HardyA gorgeous, shattering story that could not be more timely about the dark damage of hatred and the persistence of love Caroline Leavitt, author of Is This Tomorrow

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 as the world around them is being torn apart. 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 can never share with anyone, including her daughter. But can she ever really leave Paris behind and survive the next chapter of her life? Seamlessly interweaving Charlottes past in wartime Paris and her present in the 1950s world of New York publishing, A Bookshop in Paris is a heartbreakingly moving and unforgettable story of resilience, love and impossible choices. Completely compelling. I tore through it. This novel pivots on how we manage to survive surviving ... Charlottes visceral story will stay with me. Naomi Wood, author of Mrs Hemingway Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long timeHeather Morris, bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Published in the US and Australia as Paris Never Leaves You

Imagine if the boy in hiding with Anne Frank had survived the war...On 16 February 1944, Peter, Anne Frank's closest confidant in the Secret Annex, declared to her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself entirely; no one would ever know who he was, or where he had been. This is the story of what might have happened if the boy in hiding had survived the horror. After the war, Peter van Pels leaves liberated Europe and its ghosts behind him and makes for the United States, the land of self-invention; there, he flourishes in business, marries and raises a family. He lives in the present and plans for the future; for him, the past does not exist. But Peter's carefully constructed life is broken apart when The Diary of a Young Girl is published and becomes a sensation all over the world. As Anne Frank's words take on a strange and disturbing life of their own, enmeshed in bitter controversy and recrimination, Peter sees his past being adapted, distorted, argued over and endlessly reinterpreted, until the dissonance between his present and former lives sparks a crisis he cannot suppress.The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank is a compelling novel about the power of stories, the meaning of history and the possibility of coming to terms with an unbearable burden of memory.

In CIA parlance, those who knew were witting. Everyone else was among the unwitting. On a bright November day in 1963, President Kennedy is shot. That same day, Nell Benjamin receives a phone call with news about her husband, the influential young editor of a literary magazine. As the nation mourns its public loss, Nell has her private grief to reckon with, as well as a revelation about Charlie that turns her understanding of her marriage on its head, along with the world she thought she knew. With the Cold War looming ominously over the lives of American citizens in a battle of the Free World against the Communist powers, the blurry lines between what is true, what is good, and what is right tangle with issues of loyalty and love. As the truths Nell discovers about her beloved husband upend the narrative of her life, she must question her own allegiance: to her career as a journalist, to her country, but most of all to the people she loves. Set in the literary Manhattan of the 1950s, at a journal much like the Paris Review, The Unwitting evokes a bygone era of burgeoning sexual awareness and intrigue and an exuberance of ideas that had the power to change the world. Resonant, illuminating, and utterly absorbing, The Unwitting is about the lies we tell, the secrets we keep, and the power of love in the face of both. Praise for The Unwitting Much of the fun comes from the literary cameos (think: Mary McCarthy, Richard Wright and Robert Lowell), but its [Ellen Feldmans] haunting portrait of a marriage that make this Cold War novel so resonant for readers of any time period, including our own.O: The Oprah MagazineThe first notable thing about this book is the narrators voice: it is snappish, confident, argumentative, literate. I fell for it from the beginning. . . . The Unwitting is vibrant, sassy, informative, a page-turner, absorbing, and swift. I am a woman, so maybe it is a womens book, but I seriously doubt it, and hope that male readers will give it a shot. Surely they too will appreciate the research that went into it. Surely they too will be fascinated by its bold and thorough review of the American twentieth century.Kelly Cherry, The Los Angeles Review of Books Compelling enough to take its place with the best of crime fiction, Feldmans language is loving, bright and sharp while her storytelling abilities are unquestionable. . . . The Unwitting cuts us into an interesting time, then ramps things up. . . . Feldman is clearly a writer who is going places, [and] The Unwitting brings that home: its a terrific book.January MagazineA story of love and intrigue during the Cold War, The Unwitting plumbs not only the secrets of spies, but those of the human heart. Moving, witty, and thoroughly intelligent, it is an absorbing and deeply satisfying read.Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd Unforgettable . . . The Unwitting compelled me from the first page and through every unexpected twist and turn. This look into the dark places in human nature cries out to be read, re-ead, and discussed.Lynn Cullen, author of the national bestseller Mrs. Poe Through the lens of a passionate, complex marri...

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Babe, Grace and Millie have been best friends since their first day at kindergarten. Now they are newly married, and the men have gone to war. They thrive on letters from their absent sweethearts, and on the closeness theyve always shared. And then, on a single morning in 1944, no fewer than sixteen telegrams arrive, bringing news of the worst kind from the War Department. For Babe, Grace and Millie, life will never be the same again. Each must face the challenges of the years ahead, the changes taking place in America and far closer to home, which are enough to test even the deepest of friendships and most hopeful of hearts . . . Haunting and profoundly moving . . . Feldmans characters live and love with breathtaking intensity Booklist Intelligent, elegant and moving Guardian A celebration of friendship, full of tragedy and hope ASOS magazine

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.

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 Girl is 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 Franks 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 Peters life might have turned out had he survived the war. Its 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 TimesOn February 16,1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided in 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 Girl is 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 Franks 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.

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 Parenthoodan 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 calculatinga 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 Margarets 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 Sangers story as she herself might have told it.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Charlotte vive em Paris com a filha, Vivi, e trabalha em uma livraria. Como milhares de parisienses sob a ocupaço alem, ela enfrenta toda sorte de dificuldades para sobreviver e alimentar sua criança, nascida no inicio do conflito. Uma serie de acontecimentos e uma historia de amor impensavel perpassa sua rotina na loja. Com a vitoria dos Aliados e a retirada dos alemes, ela se muda para a America como judia exilada e inicia uma nova vida em uma tipica editora nova-iorquina.Alternando entre a Paris do tempo da guerra e a Nova York dos anos 1950, Paris e para sempre, de Ellen Feldman, conta uma historia extraordinaria de resiliencia, amor e escolhas impossiveis, 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 relaçes, de suas opçes e impossibilidades, desconstruindo julgamentos precipitados e penetrando fundo nos limites de cada um._______________________________________"Magistral. Magnifico. Uma apaixonante historia de sobrevivencia e uma leitura empolgante. Esta historia vai permanecer comigo por muito tempo."Heather Morris, autora de O tatuador de Auschwitz e A viagem de Cilka

For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath. Its 1941. Babe throws like a boy, thinks for herself, and never expects to escape the poor section of her quiet Massachusetts town. Then World War II breaks out, and everything changes. Her friend Grace, married to a reporter on the local paper, fears being left alone with her infant daughter when her husband ships out; Millie, the third member of their childhood trio, now weds the boy who always refused to settle down; and Babe wonders if she should marry Claude, who even as a child could never harm a living thing. As the war rages abroad, life on the home front undergoes its own battles and victories; and when the men return, and civilian life resumes, nothing can go back to quite the way it was. From postwar traumas to womens rights, racial injustice to anti-Semitism, Babe, Grace, and Millie experience the dislocations, the acute pains, and the exhilaration of a society in flux. Along the way, they will learn what it means to be a wife, a mother, a friend, a fighter, and a survivor. Beautiful, startling, and heartbreaking, Next to Love is a love letter to the brave women who shaped a nations destiny. Impossible to put down. Stacy Schiff Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, a novel inspired by the shocking true story of the Scottsboro boys.Even after all these years, the injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred. Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling.Alabama, 1931. A freight train is stopped in Scottsboro, nine black youths are brutally arrested and, within minutes, the cry of rape goes up from two white girls. In the shocking aftermath, one sticks to her story whilst the other keeps changing her mind, and an impassioned young journalist must try to save nine boys from the electric chair, one girl from a lie, and herself from the clutches of the past . . .Stirring racism, sexism and the politics of a divided America into an explosive brew, Scottsboro gives voice to the victims - black and white - of this infamous case. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2009, Ellen Feldmans classic charts a fight for justice during the burgeoning civil-rights movement.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

Basado en una exhaustiva investigación sobre Peter van Pels y la extraña y perturbadora vida que el diario de Ana Frank cobró tras su muerte, ésta es una novela sobre el recuerdo de la muerte, la muerte del recuerdo y la imposibilidad de negar el pasado.El 16 de febrero de 1944 Ana Frank anoto en su diario que Peter, que al principio no le gustaba pero del que al final se enamoro, le habia confiado que si salian del escondite con vida, se reinventaria a si mismo por completo. Esta novela es la historia de lo que podria haber ocurrido si el chico hubiera sobrevivido y se hubiera convertido en un hombre.Peter llega a Estados Unidos, la tierra de la autocreacion, y se hace pasar por cristiano. Con exito en los negocios y rico en amor en elboom de los años cincuenta, prospera en el presente, planifica el futuro y no tiene pasado. Pero esta charada tiene un precio. La publicacion deEl diario de Ana Frank, que recibe elogios de todos los rincones del mundo, desencadena paralizantes recuerdos de sus vivencias en el anejo secreto de Amsterdam. El diario es tambien su historia, y una vez que la compuerta de los recuerdos se abre, su vida se descontrola.