IIt's 1953, Anthony Amedeo's uncle Malcolm is sent to prison, and Aunt Floria and her twin daughters have come to live with Anthony and his family. Soon after, Anthony watches helplessly as one of the twins falls out the window of the...

Follows Trudi Montag, a dwarf who serves as her town's librarian, unofficial historian, and recorder of the secret stories of her people, in a novel that charts the course of German history in the first half of the twentieth century

The fourth novel in the Burgdorf Cycle by Stones from the River author Ursula Hegi, Children and Fire tells the story of what results when a gifted teacher in Burgdorf, Germany becomes seduced by Hitler's propaganda and encourages her...