Hannah vividly demonstrates how the Nazis, through starvation, intimidation and barbarity both casual and calculated, demoralized the French, engineering a community collapse that enabled the deportations and deaths of more than 70,000 Jews.

Now, for the first time in his fiction, he ponders what we would do if, after crying out for divine help, God actually appeared before us?It didn't take me long to get into this book and after that I was caught up in the story however odd it may seem. Among them is Benji, a deckhand who narrates the ordeal in a notebook while they desperately hope for rescue. The young YouTube star Emily Canham has recently been seen making headlines for her amazing work and her journey.

Inspector LeFleur on the island of Montserrat gets information that an empty raft from the sunken yacht has been found.Money - paper from a tree, or, now, a typed number in an online bank account - determines your worth in this world.

In some senses this, and other books from Albom, are probably rather odd to some believers and unbelievers. Mitch has greatly written this masterpiece in a way that forces readers to feel the themes in the story. I would certainly read another by this author in the future and fans of his will be very pleased by this story I think. The land tells of Inspector Fleur leading an investigation when the life raft appears off a beach a year later in Montserrat.

In The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Albom keeps us guessing until the end: Is this strange and quiet man really who he claims to be? It can probably be surmised that I have enjoyed his non fiction books much more than his attempts at fiction. She joins the Resistance, volunteering for dangerous duty: shepherding downed Allied airmen across the Pyrenees to Spain. Toggling back and forth between news reports about the sinking of the super yacht, Galaxy, and journaling of a life raft member, we're immersed into a tragedy, which is common among Mitch's books. He represented the wealth and privilege Benji did not have, and he resented that it cost his wife's life, because he couldn't afford her medical treatments.