Alex Amit Books in Order

Hiding her Jewish identity while living with a German officer, Monique prepares for a Christmas reception in occupied Paris. The gathering forces her to balance the secrecy keeping her alive against memories of the heritage she must conceal.

Fleeing the Nazis in occupied Paris, seventeen-year-old Monique accepts a Resistance offer of a false identity. To survive, she must gather intelligence through German acquaintances, placing her between a dangerous officer and the man helping her hide.

In occupied Paris, sixteen-year-old Monique ventures out to find food for her family while secretly pursuing a small personal dream. Scarcity and the dangers facing a Jewish girl threaten her wish to enjoy an ordinary teenage life.

As German restrictions change everyday life in Paris, fifteen-year-old Monique begins to understand the danger of being visibly Jewish. An encounter with a soldier forces her to choose between continuing toward her father and retreating in fear.

In 1944, Chicago nurse Grace enlists, hoping to save lives and escape the limits of home. Her journey toward Europe with an Atlantic convoy begins to reveal the scale of the war and the responsibilities awaiting her.

Newly arrived at the Italian front, nurse Grace suffers injuries that threaten her hopes of helping wounded soldiers. Refusing to return home, she struggles toward recovery while reading letters to a fellow patient and rebuilding her sense of self.

Thrown out of her home in Vienna, a sixteen-year-old girl finds refuge in a hostel that exploits its residents. A painter's arrival offers a possible escape into an unfamiliar artistic world, if she dares to take it.

After an escape attempt ends in internment at Drancy, Sarah uses stories to protect her young daughter's innocence. As deportation threatens, she must also teach Rebecca how to survive a reality that imagination alone cannot keep away.

Clara wants a quiet life, but poverty and Germany's upheavals force her into an increasingly precarious existence. As Nazi persecution intensifies, she must decide whether to protect herself or risk everything by sheltering Jewish women.

Widowed during the war, Elke struggles to sustain her German family's farm and protect her son. As Nazi pressure draws children toward the Hitler Youth, she faces choices about resistance, helping the persecuted, and her child's future.

Following her distant husband to Siam's tin mines in 1890, Elsa Weiss finds herself isolated in colonial society. Her attraction to a restless French doctor offers connection, but pursuing it could cost her the security of respectability.