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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE This timeless, heart-wrenching novel tells the story of one teenage girl’s fight for survival with her family at a Soviet labor camp during World War II (also pubished as Between Shades of Gray). "Few books are beautifully written...

When she arrives on Ellis Island as a 17-year-old Irish immigrant, Rose Nolan is looking for a land of opportunities; what she finds is far from all she'd dreamed. Stubborn and tenacious, she refuses to give up. Left alone to fend for herself and her younger sister, Rose is thrust into a hard-knock life of tenements and factory work. When the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 rushes into Rose's life, her confusions are brought to an all-too-painful head. To whom and to what can she turn when everything around her is in ashes?