Then I Drown

As ominous as the book cover and title seem to be, this inspiring true story is likely to evoke many more tears of joy than tears of sadness in readers. At its simplest, it is a story about family, a girl's search for her mother, from whom she was stolen when she was only 4 years old. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, she is raised in Nazi Germany, so desperately lonely she naively puts sugar on the window sill each night in hopes of attracting a stork bearing a baby sister or brother.

After Worl...