The Rules of Survival is a thought-provoking exploration of emotional abuse, self-reliance, and the nature of evil. It offers a heart-wrenching portrait of family crisis, perfect for fans of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why.

For Matt and his sisters, life with their cruel, physically abusive mother is a day-to-day struggle for survival. But then Matt witnesses a man named Murdoch coming to a child’s rescue in a convenience store; and for the first time, he feels a glimmer of hope. Then, amazingly, Murdoch begins dating Matt’s mother. Life is suddenly almost good. But the relief lasts only a short time.

When Murdoch inevitably breaks up with their mother, Matt knows that he’ll need to take some action. Can he call upon Murdoch to be his hero? Or will Matt have to take measures into his own hands?

This gripping, powerful novel will stay with you long after you’ve read it. Nancy Werlin, the New York Times Bestselling author of Impossible, shows why she is a master of her genre.

When tragedy strikes, a father discovers that a journey of misfortune is sometimes the path to deliverance. The quaint mountain town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, is the perfect place for Isaac Snow to raise his family. But when his eight-year-old daughters, Caroline and Josie, commit an innocent act of heroism, media coverage attracts the wrong kind of attention.

Soon, their life unravels, leading them to the crossroads of love and hate, forgiveness and retribution. In the dark hours of a drizzly morning, Isaac, an ex-air force pilot, wakes to find a masked intruder cradling one of the twins in his arms. Before he can react, the man in black leaps through the nearest window, plummeting in a tangle of body parts and glass.

Isaac charges in pursuit, but is suddenly faced with a new dilemma. Caroline is unconscious, lying facedown in the lawn, cuts from the shattered window saturating her pajamas. If he gives chase, his little girl will surely bleed to death.

From a secretive loner with a penchant for unrestrained violence to the pristine granite peaks of the Rocky Mountains—from laughter-filled family dinners to a string of cross-country abductions—Landon Parham's debut novel relentlessly explores the horrific realities of unnatural lust and obsession. Taken well beyond the investigation and law-enforcement tactics, you'll find yourself steeped in a journey of evil and torment, and the power of family that overcomes it all.

Suspenseful, bold and meticulously researched; a true psychological thriller that captures the heart.

Sobre el fango negro de Auschwitz que todo lo engulle, Fredy Hirsch ha levantado en secreto una escuela. En un lugar donde los libros están prohibidos, la joven Dita esconde bajo su vestido los frágiles volúmenes de la biblioteca pública más pequeña, recóndita y clandestina que haya existido nunca.

En medio del horror, Dita nos da una maravillosa lección de coraje: no se rinde y nunca pierde las ganas de vivir ni de leer porque, incluso en ese terrible campo de exterminio, «abrir un libro es como subirte a un tren que te lleva de vacaciones».

Una emocionante novela basada en hechos reales que rescata del olvido una de las más conmovedoras historias de heroísmo cultural.

In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded the ancient city of Nanking, systematically raping, torturing, and murdering more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. This book tells the story from three perspectives:

• The Japanese soldiers who performed it,
• The Chinese civilians who endured it,
• And a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and were able to create a safety zone that saved many.

In this seminal work, Iris Chang, whose own grandparents barely escaped the massacre, draws on extensive interviews with survivors and documents brought to light for the first time, providing a definitive history of this horrifying episode.

Anne Frank Remembered is the astonishing autobiography of Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide the Frank family during the harrowing years of World War II.

For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband bravely risked their lives to provide food, news, and emotional support to the hidden families. Their acts of bravery are a beacon of hope and humanity amidst the darkness of the Nazi occupation.

Miep's story is not just about the past; it is a timeless reminder of the power of love and courage. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the poignant moment she places Anne's diary—a legacy of hope—into Otto Frank's hands, her memories are recounted with simple honesty and shattering clarity.

This book resonates with courage and heartbreaking beauty, offering a glimpse into the life of a true unsung hero of the Holocaust.

You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence.

Through this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero. Irene Gut was just a girl when the war began: seventeen, a Polish patriot, a student nurse, a good Catholic girl. As the war progressed, the soldiers of two countries stripped her of all she loved — her family, her home, her innocence — but the degradations only strengthened her will.

She began to fight back. Irene was forced to work for the German Army, but her blond hair, her blue eyes, and her youth bought her the relatively safe job of waitress in an officers' dining room. She would use this Aryan mask as both a shield and a sword: She picked up snatches of conversation along with the Nazis' dirty dishes and passed the information to Jews in the ghetto. She raided the German Warenhaus for food and blankets. She smuggled people from the work camp into the forest. And, when she was made the housekeeper of a Nazi major, she successfully hid twelve Jews in the basement of his home until the Germans' defeat.

This young woman was determined to deliver her friends from evil. It was as simple and as impossible as that.