The Song Before It is Sung
by Justin Cartwright | 
War Brides
by Lois Battle | 
Gone to Soldiers
by Marge Piercy | 
Four Freedoms
by John Crowley | 
Shining Through
by Susan Isaacs |
Island of Saints
by Andy Andrews |
War Crimes for the Home
by Liz Jensen | 
The Avenue Goes to War
by R. F. Delderfield | 
Death and Honor
by W. E. B. Griffin |
The Dressmaker's Gift
by Fiona Valpy | 
Casting Off
by Elizabeth Jane Howard | 
The Good Shepherd
by C. S. Forester | 
Flight of Eagles
by Jack Higgins | 
The Cloud Atlas
by Liam Callanan | 
Rachel's Prayer
by Leisha Kelly | 
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer |
The Beantown Girls
by Jane Healey | 
Finding Rebecca
by Eoin Dempsey | 
Last Train to Istanbul
by Ayse Kulin |
While You Were Mine
by Ann Howard Creel |
The Visible World is an evocative, powerfully romantic novel about a son's attempt to understand his mother's past, a search that leads him to a tragic love affair and the heroic story of the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi by the Czech resistance. The narrator of The Visible World, the American-born son of Czech immigrants living in New York, grows up in an atmosphere haunted by fragments of a past he cannot understand. At the heart of that past is his mother, Ivana, a spontaneous, passionate woman drifting ever closer to despair. As an adult, the narrator travels to Prague, hoping to learn about a love affair between his then young mother and a member of the resistance named Tomas, an affair whose untimely end, he senses, lay behind Ivana's unhappiness. Ultimately unable to complete his knowledge of the past, he imagines the two lovers as participants in one of the more dramatic (and true) moments of the war, and through the deeply romantic story he tells, creates not only the ending of their story but the beginning of his own.