**FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEFrom the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World War II.**In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Bálint, the promising son of the Maj...

When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life, but can't seem to get it right. She irritates the maid, hangs food outside the window because she mistrusts the fridge and, in her naivety and loneliness, invites a prostitute in for tea.Iza’s Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life’s compani...

The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife.In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first Jews to be sent to the A...

From the author of The Door, a beloved coming-of-age tale set in WWII-era Hungary.Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó's books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go away on a mission and that he will be sending her to...

If you thought pooing on everyone was bad, then STICK AROUND! Coz things are about to get WAAAAAY worse for TIMMY. Now he’s the MOST HATED thing in the world—people hate him more than brussels sprouts and stinky cheese... even more than wedgies! And now he’s ON THE RUN!

A landmark history of the antisemitic blood libel myth—how it took root in Europe, spread with the invention of the printing press, and persists today.Accusations that Jews ritually killed Christian children emerged in the mid-twelfth century, following the death of twelve-year-old William of Norwich, England, in 1144. Later, continental Europeans added a destructive twist: Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood. While charges that Jews poisoned wells ...

The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Léon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and participation in the dynamic symbolist/modernist artistic ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War followed by marriage to a prominent Indian nationalist, then with h...

From the author of The Door and Abigail and for fans of Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector, a newly translated novel about a theater star who is forced to reckon with her painful and tragic past.In The Door, in Iza’s Ballad, and in Abigail, Magda Szabó describes the complex relationships between women of different ages and backgrounds with an astute and unsparing eye. Eszter, the narrator and protagonist of The Faw...

Seventy-five ways to embrace a spirit of adventure—around the world or around the corner.Ask the next person you meet where his/her favorite street is. Go there.Write down what you like about this city on a small piece of paper. Leave it where someone else will find it later.If you can see a shop from where you are, step inside it.A creative travel guide for anywhere, this handy book includes seventy-five inspirations ...

Love in a Time of Hate tells the gripping tale of Magda and André Trocmé, the couple that transformed a small town in the mountains of southern France into a place of safety during the Holocaust. At great risk to their own lives, the Trocmés led efforts in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon to hide more than three thousand Jewish children and adults who were fleeing the Nazis. In this astonishing story of courage, romance, and resistance, learn what prompted André and Magda to risk everything ...

The Growth Mindset in Project Management explores how adopting a growth mindset can transform project management. It is a must-read for project managers, team leaders, and business professionals eager to apply a growth mindset to enhance their approach to project management and achieve better outcomes.The Growth Mindset in Project Management covers the golden rules for implementing a growth mindset, building resilient project foundations, and manag...

What if the problem isn't that you're not doing enough…but that you've been carrying too much for too long?The Overwhelmed Woman's Reset is a deeply supportive, practical guide for women who feel mentally exhausted, emotionally stretched, and lost inside the responsibilities of everyday life.You are not broken.You are overloaded.This book helps you gently step out of survival mode and reconnect with yourself — without pressure, guilt, or unrealistic ex...