Here are 2 books that Helen Button fans have personally recommended if you like
Helen Button.
Shepherd is a community of 12,000+ authors and super readers sharing their favorite books with the world.
This memoir by Joseph Joffo about the series of adventures--and misadventures--he and his 12-year-old brother had when they were sent alone by their parents into the (relative) safety of the Free Zone of Occupied France is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. Joffo's ability to capture the childhood innocence of these brothers as well as their astonishing resourcefulness, resilience, and sangfroid is superb. The realistic picture it offers of the daily challenges and dangers of France under Nazi occupation is sobering--but also a testament to the ability of good to prevail even in the worst circumstances.
When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. Previously out of print, this book is a captivating and memorable story; readers will instinctively find themselves rooting for these children caught in the whirlwind of World War II.
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
This collection of essays published by Sarah Smarsh from 2013 to 2024 gives a much richer, more complex and more authentic picture of life in the great heartland of the US than is usually provided in mainstream media. Her compassion for those struggling in the rural working class world in which she was raised, the sharpness of her insights into the current social and political challenges Americans are facing, and her gift for compelling storytelling and graceful writing make this a book that anyone who cares about the future of this country could benefit by reading.
“A must-read for today's politics” (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America's class problem are collected in one searing and insightful volume.
In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times—class division, political fissures, gender inequality, environmental crisis, media bias, the rural-urban gulf. Smarsh, a journalist who grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas and was the first in her family to graduate from college, has long focused on…
