A Bookseller in Madrid: A Novel Author Thomas M. Freiling enabling him to provide a

enabling him to provide a home for his ailing mother and siblings

and Rochelle Pennington have highlighted the essential and best quotations and stories that point to an understanding of the elements that are key to a life well lived: kindness

By reading about the humility of Alvin York

raise them so that their hearts will remain open toward home--and the values and principles they learned there

A Bookseller in Madrid: A Novel Author Thomas M. Freiling enabling him to provide aHow can the words of the past help heal the horror of the present? For as long as she can remember, Barbara Spiel has always found solace in books. Born in Germany and having come of age in a tumultuous era, she flees her home country as the Nazis rise to power in the early 1930s. Her destination? Madrid. There she's determined to realize her long held dream of opening a bookshop and creating a safe haven for young idealists and independent thinkers