Carol Matas

After her father's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Rose Rives finds that sixteenth-century France is a dangerous place for women, when some greedy, vindictive men charge her mother and others with being witches.

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife—the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.

From the author of The Land, this poem is a much more personal and symbolic offering. Set against the backdrop of war, the seasons in the garden represent the seasons of life.

Adopted half-breed son a of a high-caste Spaniard becomes the darling of the aristocrats, but returns and leads the Indians in a victorious revolt.

The fourth novel in the Second World War saga of the Bayley brothers. In the winter of 1942, it is the job of the youthful General Max Bayley, son of an English RAF World War I ace and a German mother, to protect transport planes dropping supplies to the stranded Wehrmacht in Russia. While Max's mission may seem doomed to failure, the Luftwaffe is facing worse problems on the Western Front, where they must face the formidable new RAF Mosquito. Reichsmarshal Goering soon realizes that the war cannot be won without the Mosquito, so orders military intelligence to obtain the specifications at any cost. This they endeavour to do by targeting the American wife of Squadron Leader John Bayley, Max's half-brother. But little do they reckon upon the might of the Bayley family... "The Whirlwind" tells the story of two young men united by blood and separated by ideology, and of the women they love and are desperate to rejoin.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1941. Lorsqu'éclate la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Déborah Bernstein s'inquiète terriblement pour les membres de sa famille juive qui résident en France. Sa cousine Sarah lui confie en effet, dans sa correspondance, les actes d'antisémitisme dont sont victimes les Juifs, privés de loisirs, d'emploi et d'éducation, avant d'être arrêtés et transportés vers les camps de la mort. Tandis que ses frères Adam et Morris, enrôlés dans l'armée, combattent respectivement en Angleterre et à Hong Kong, Déborah rejoint, avec sa mère, une organisation militant afin de convaincre le gouvernement canadien, mené par Mackenzie King, de laisser entrer au pays les Juifs ayant un visa. Or, leurs actes demeurent vains alors que les insultes et attaques perpétrées contre des Juifs canadiens augmentent et que Morris est fait prisonnier par les Japonais ... -- Rédigé sous forme de journal intime, ce roman à saveur didactique lève le voile sur la déplorable, et méconnue, politique d'immigration adoptée par le gouvernement canadien lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale de même que sur l'antisémitisme qui régnait de façon tacite au Canada à l'époque. Un dossier photographique et historique ajoute à l'impact du récit. [SDM].

The Barnett family takes matters into their own hands, heading off to the old family home outside of Oxford, England, in search of the elephant.

During the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Lisa and other teenage Jews become involved in an underground resistance movement and eventually must flee for their lives.

When war breaks out between the United States and Great Britain in 1812, eleven-year-old Susanna chronicles her experiences when her father and brother go off to fight leaving the women to fend for themselves on the family farm on the Niagara Peninsula of Upper Canada.

"The unflinching account of a young Polish Jew whose blond hair and blue eyes allow her to pass as a Christian, and escape the terrible fate of her family and friends during the Holocaust" Cf. Our choice, 2000.

Surreal children's fantasy, the fourth in a series

Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

Follows the adventures of two royal teenagers who possess extraordinary mental powers.