Sara Gillepsie is her family’s sole survivor after a Nazi bombing. Leaving her home in Ireland, she goes to work in England helping the war effort.

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa is a short fable, a feel-good story which was a nice read during this time of year

A terrorist group took over a 100 hostages in Vienna. The rescue attempt went horribly wrong. CIA Vienna branch believes the inside breach was in their office.

The magic of sagas is that you get to know the characters very well. This novel is too short for such narrative. The characters, are lovely, and interesting.

Rabbi David Small might be implicated in a mysterious murder, all this while his contract with the temple is up for renewal.

How to Travel by The School of Life consists of short essays about traveling. The School of Life is devoted to show people how to lead a more fulfilling life.

Nora Seed wants to die, but instead she finds herself in a library where she could live alternate versions of her reality, with different choices to live a life

The premise of Work the System is simple: cut down complex jobs to manageable tasks and work those, it is applicable to almost every industry, and life itself.

Bending Toward the Sun A Mother and Daughter Memoir by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie & Rita Lurie – of how the mother’s holocaust experience affected later generations

This graphic novel is another retelling / re-imaging of Superman’s origin story. From the collapse of Krypton, to the Kent farm in Kansas, from the military, to the depths of the ocean, and becoming a superhero in Metropolis.