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Pam Jenoff, whose first novel, The Kommandant’s Woman, was a Quill Award finalist, a Book Sense pick, and a finalist for the ALA Sophie Brody Award, ties the Doubleday checklist using a suspenseful tale of betrayal and love set throughout the Holocaust. An ambitious book that spans decades and continents, The Items We Valued shows the tale of Charlotte Platinum and Port Harrington, two very independent attor­neys who end up gradually decreasing for just one another while trying to protect the sibling of the Holocaust idol against accusations of World War II–era war violations. The offender, rich investor Roger Dykmans, mysteri­ously will not assist in their own protection, exposing just that evidence of his innocence lies inside an elaborate watch last observed in Nazi Germany. Whilst the story moves from Philadelphia to Germany, Poland, and Italy, we're given glimpses of the lives that the wedding time has handled in the last millennium, and find out about the romance that flipped a sibling right into a traitor.