Why not try one of these titles dealing with Holocausts, genocide and remembrance?
A novelisation of the life-and-death hunt for a notorious Nazi war criminal, which unfolds against a background of international arms deals.
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
One of the most poignant and widely read true-life stories to emerge from the Second World War, this book provides an unforgettable portrait of an ordinary teenage girl in extraordinary circumstances.
Maus, A. Spiegelman
This autobiographical graphic novel tells the story of Art Spiegelman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, learning his father's extraordinary life story. Spanning his young life in pre-war Poland, through German occupation and his time in Auschwitz, Art (and you the reader) gain a bleak insight into life in a concentration camp. As if to drive home his point, the Jewish people are portrayed as mice and the Nazis as cats.
In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton Launches a surprising defence of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medievil construct, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our world.
The Boy in the Stripes Pajamas, J. Boyne
Tells the story of Bruno, an innocent 8 year old boy restless with his new country home and on the lookout for adventure. Ignoring his mother and his father (a Nazi general), he wanders through the woods and encounters a fence. Beyond the fence is a boy, roughly his age, who is lonely too. This remarkable book, now a critically acclaimed film, will have you in bits.
These titles and others are all available in the Library, collected by the laptop bank.