Short List: Also New

This is Israel/This is Britain, the latest titles in a series of facsimile editions of M. Sasek's classic children's travel books, with Sasek's playful original illustrations of the White Cliffs of Dover, Mount Zion, and other iconic spots in Britain and Israel.

Resistance, Owen Sheers's alternate-reality WWII novel that posits a German-occupied Britain, and what happens when a German patrol with a mysterious mission turns up in a small Welsh border town.