<div>Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber&rsquo;s powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt&rsquo;s administration to receive asylum in the United States. All they had to do was get there. Ruth Gruber, with the support of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, volunteered to escort them on their secret route across the Atlantic from a port in Italy to a &ldquo;safe haven&rdquo; camp in Oswego, New York. The dangerous endeavor carried the threat of Nazi capture with each passing day. While on the ship, Gruber recorded the refugees&rsquo; emotional stories and recounts them here in vivid detail, along with the aftermath of their arrival in the US, which involved a fight for their right to stay after the war ended. The result is a poignant and engrossing true story of suffering under Nazi persecution and incredible courage in the face of overwhelming circumstances. </div>

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<div>A National Jewish Book Award&ndash;winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel&rsquo;s statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history. She delivered babies in a Holocaust refugee camp and on the Israeli frontier. She crossed minefields to aid injured soldiers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and organized hospitals to save the lives of those fighting the 1967 Six-Day War. Along the way, her own life was a series of triumphs and tragedies mirroring those of the newly formed Jewish state.Raquela is a moving tribute to a remarkable woman, and an unforgettable chronicle of the birth of Israel through the eyes of those who lived it.</div>

Raquela

<div>The renowned journalist and Jewish activist looks back on her first 25 years in &ldquo;one of the most evocative journalistic autobiographies to appear&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). In this fascinating memoir, Ruth Gruber recalls her first twenty-five years, from her youth in Brooklyn to her astonishing academic accomplishments and groundbreaking journalistic career. She shares her experiences entering New York University at fifteen and just five years later becoming the world&rsquo;s youngest person to earn a PhD. She recounts her time in Cologne, Germany, studying during Hitler&rsquo;s rise to power, and her adventures in Europe and the Arctic as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Spirited and compelling, Ahead of Time is a striking account of the early years of a woman at the center of the twentieth century&rsquo;s turning points.</div>

Ahead of Time

<div>The intrepid journalist and Holocaust refugee champion &ldquo;gives a commonplace appeal to the momentous events with her ingenuous storytelling&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews).Drawing from hundreds of notebooks accumulated throughout her career, Gruber&rsquo;s breathtaking memoir spans some of the most significant events of the twentieth century, covering the years 1941 to 1952. She details her eighteen months spent surveying Alaska on behalf of the United States government, her role assisting Holocaust refugees&rsquo; emigration from war-torn Europe, and her relationships with some of the most important figures of the era, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Golda Meir. Gruber describes these eleven years of her inspiring life with clarity and insight, providing an extraordinary inside look at some of the twentieth century&rsquo;s turning points.</div>

Inside of Time

<div>This groundbreaking study of the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf is also an account of the intertwined lives of two extraordinary women. In 1932, Ruth Gruber earned her PhD&mdash;the youngest person ever to do so&mdash;with a stunning doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf. Published in 1935, the paper was the first-ever feminist critique of Woolf&rsquo;s work and inspired a series of correspondences between the two writers. It also led to Gruber&rsquo;s eventual meeting with Woolf, which she recounted six decades later in Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman. Described by Gruber as &ldquo;the odyssey of how I met Virginia Woolf, and how her life and work became intertwined with my life,&rdquo; Virginia Woolf is a clear and insightful portrait of one of modern literature&rsquo;s most innovative authors, written by one of America&rsquo;s most remarkable journalists.</div>

Virginia Woolf

<div>Three poignant and powerful memoirs from the award-winning journalist, human rights advocate, and &ldquo;fearless chronicler of the Jewish struggle&rdquo; (The New York Times). Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for her biography of the pioneering Israeli nurse, Raquela Prywes, Ruth Gruber lived an extraordinary life as a foreign correspondent, photographer, humanitarian, and author. This collection is comprised of three of her most gripping memoirs, covering many of the most significant historical events in the first half of the twentieth century. Ahead of Time: At the tender age of eighty, the trailblazing journalist looked back on her remarkable first twenty-five years: growing up in a Brooklyn shtetl; entering New York University at fifteen; becoming the world&rsquo;s youngest person to earn a PhD at nineteen in Cologne, Germany; being exposed to Hitler&rsquo;s rise to power; and becoming the first American to travel to Siberia at the age of twenty-four, reporting on Gulag conditions for the New York Herald Tribune, in this &ldquo;beautifully crafted&rdquo; memoir (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;Ruth Gruber&rsquo;s singular autobiography is both informative and poignant. Read it and your own memory will be enriched.&rdquo; &mdash;Elie Wiesel Haven: In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees were chosen by President Roosevelt to receive asylum in the United States. Working for the secretary of the interior, Gruber volunteered to shepherd them on their secret route across the Atlantic from Italy. She recorded the refugees&rsquo; dangerous passage, along with the aftermath of their arrival, which involved a fight to stay in the US after the war ended. The &ldquo;remarkable story&rdquo; was made into a TV miniseries starring Natasha Richardson as Gruber (Booklist). &ldquo;[A] touching story . . . [Ruth Gruber] has put us into the full picture and humanized it.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Inside of Time: Unstoppable at ninety-one, Gruber, &ldquo;with clarity, insight and humor,&rdquo; revisited the years 1941 to 1952, recounting her eighteen months spent surveying Alaska on behalf of the US government, her role assisting Holocaust refugees&rsquo; emigration from war-torn Europe to Israel, and her relationships with some of the most important figures of the era, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Golda Meir (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;Gruber bore witness, spoke bluntly, galvanized public opinion, inspired people to action.&rdquo; &mdash;Blanche Wiesen Cook, Los Angeles Times</div>

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