MY BRIDGES OF HOPE: Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz

Livia Bitton-Jackson, Livia Bitton Jackson, . . Simon Pulse, $4.99 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-689-84898-8

The author continues her memoir, begun in I Have Lived a Thousand Years, at age 14 as a survivor of Auschwitz. PW called her story "utterly involving. The volume adds an important chapter to the ongoing attempt to understand the Holocaust and its consequences." Ages 12-up. (Mar.)

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