Best True Story Novels - April 2024

Surviving The Forest (A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor)

Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate …She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland, surrounded by a little garden with lilies. This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought…WWII broke out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic village, they quickly understood they were wrong and their happiness came to a brutal end. The family had to flee their house and find shelter in a neighboring Ghetto... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1796269409
• ASIN: 1796269409
• ISBN: 1796269409
• Manufacturer: Independently published

What Once Was True: An Irish WW2 Story (The Robinswood Story Book 1)

New from USA TODAY Bestselling author, Jean Grainger,One House, two families and a war that changes everthing that once was true....Robinswood, Co Waterford, 1939. The once grand house is home to two very different families.Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children, live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown up girls, live and work on the estate and do their best to keep everything running smoothly.Social structure is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07F1KTZDL
• ASIN: B07F1KTZDL

My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.   Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425274810
• ASIN: 0425274810
• ISBN: 0425274810
• Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call to social services about the escalating brutality in her home.When they jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home, and she risks losing the support of family, coming to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved.Spilled Milk is a novel of shocking narrative, trium... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0615835600
• ASIN: 0615835600
• ISBN: 0615835600
• Manufacturer: K.L Randis

Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

Edgar Award Finalist: The “sensational” true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.   On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MTU86Z7
• ASIN: B01MTU86Z7
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.“The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both crimi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101904216
• ASIN: 1101904216
• ISBN: 1101904216
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story

Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene stay in their garden instead. When the city is bombed, the family flees with thousands of others, but how can they walk the same route when they have an elephant in tow, and keep themselves safe? Along the way, they meet Peter, a Canadian navigator who risks his own capture to save the family. As Michael Morp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250034140
• ASIN: 1250034140
• ISBN: 1250034140
• Brand: Square Fish
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival

A poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, We Were the Lucky Ones, and Lilac GirlsIn the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed “Hansel” and “Gretel.” They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called a “witch” by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them, even as a Germ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142003077
• ASIN: 0142003077
• ISBN: 0142003077
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Educated: A Memoir

• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• Manufacturer: Random House

The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (True Rescue Series)

This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil tankers and the harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. Now a major motion picture from Disney, starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck.On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half. Wi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250044235
• ASIN: 1250044235
• ISBN: 1250044235
• Brand: Tougias Michael J
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

Noise: A graphic novel based on a true story

An introverted girl who just wanted to be left alone. A talkative little boy with a very important wish. Based on a true story, Noise is the heartwarming tale of finding joy in unexpected places. Short and sweet, a full-color comic book for both children and adults alike.

• ASIN: 1793189536
• ASIN: 1793189536
• ISBN: 1793189536
• Manufacturer: Independently published

And Then You Loved Me

Readers who have enjoyed the emotional, heartfelt stories of authors like Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks may enjoy "this great read about life, love, and the consequences of choices and actions."A contemporary romance for anyone who's ever believed that true love never leaves our hearts. . .People say you can’t ever go back. That some of the things that happen to us simply cannot be redone. But the paths of a life journey are rarely straight. They twist and turn and wind back across those once visited and long thought to have faded from existence.Becca Miller has lived her life trying to d... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00JSW7IH4
• ASIN: B00JSW7IH4
• Manufacturer: Fence Free Entertainment, LLC

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

• ASIN: 0385521316
• ASIN: 0385521316
• ISBN: 0385521316
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and intermittent homelessness in the shadows of Manhattan and the Hamptons. A true-life rags-to-riches story, Etched in Sand chronicles Regina’s rising above her past, while fighting to keep her ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009NG18Z8
• ASIN: B009NG18Z8
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a surv... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547577311
• ASIN: 0547577311
• ISBN: 0547577311
• Brand: Clarion Books
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

My Mother's Secret : A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

Inspired by a true story, My Mother's Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and

• UPC: 37283330
• Rating: 4.4

Reagandoodle and Little Buddy : The True Story of a Labradoodle and His Toddler Best Friend

Learn the incredible true story of Reagan, an adorable labradoodle, and his toddler best friend Little Buddy. Celebrate their life and friendship as told through the eyes of Reagandoodle and through the lens of photographer

• UPC: 829067439
• Rating: 5.0

The Wettest County in the World : A Novel Based on a True Story

Bondurant weaves a compelling tale of violence, desperation, and greed, as three brothers run moonshine in Virginia during prohibition, in this story that is based on a true story about the author's grandfather and two

• UPC: 10972584
• Rating: 3.3

Super Sad True Love Story : A Novel

In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis, and Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor an ardent

• UPC: 15705056
• Rating: 3.7

The Story of Us : A heart-wrenching story that will make you believe in true love

From the "USA Today"-bestselling author of "Fisher's Light" comes a "heartbreaking and hopeful" (AL Jackson) standalone romance about first love and second chances.

• UPC: 304474736
• Rating: 5.0

Little Girl Leaving: A Novel Based on a True Story (Paperback)

"A harrowing read, and it should be . . . enlightening . . . A disturbing and illuminating tale."--KIRKUS REVIEWSThe 1960s have come to a close--it's 1972, and America is changing. So is Deidi's world;

• UPC: 866195866

Hurt Go Happy : A novel inspired by the true story of a chimpanzee who learned sign language

For use in schools and libraries only. An inspiring story about one young girl's determination to save the life of a fellow creature, one who shares 98 percent of our

• UPC: 46130573
• Rating: 4.4

Tutti's Promise : A Novel Based on a Family's True Story of Courage and Hope During the Holocaust

A promise kept is like the twinkling stars in the night sky: a constant reminder of something important that makes you who you are.Can nine-year-old Tutti keep a promise-and a secret? Her family's life may

• UPC: 308598477

Colter : The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had

The author shares his memories of his favorite dog, Colter, and the diverse ways in which he transformed the author's life, in a look at the dynamic relationship between humans and

• UPC: 1179814
• Rating: 4.3

Baseball's Best: Five True Stories

Examines the accomplishments of Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, and Hank Aaron, all of whom were elected to the Baseball Hall of

• UPC: 455013
• Rating: 4.0

1943 Life Story Magazine. 2 Novels, 10 Best Life Stories, 15 True Life Features

• UPC: 372274690283
• Category: Magazines
• Price: 4 USD