When the Germans invade her city, Rachel Klein is a teenager falling in love.  Within a year, she's delivering illegal papers and confronting Nazi soldiers.  In this "compelling and touching tale" (Laurel Corona), Rachel finds her courage and faces wrenching choices.  A Kirkus Indie Book of the Month. Follow Rachel Klein as she faces double danger as a young Jewish woman and resistance worker in the Amsterdam of Anne Frank. On May 10, 1940, the Nazi bombers blast the night and shatter Rachel Klein's sleep - along with her life as she knew it.  She's eighteen, and falling in love with a Gentile in a secret relationship.  As the Nazi terror escalates, her romance deepens quickly, and so does her boyfriend's involvement with student protests.  Soon, he must disappear rather than face arrest.  When Rachel witnesses the first roundup of 425 Jewish men in the Jonas Daniel Meijerplein, she knows that she too must act, and joins the resistance.   Despite the ever greater danger as the Nazis tighten their grip on the city, Rachel makes daily deliveries of illegal papers to addresses all over Amsterdam.  She ingeniously evades the Nazis and their Dutch collaborators for months, although she has some close calls.  As the roundups intensify, Rachel agonizes about whether to go into hiding.  Ultimately she persuades her parents to accompany her to a dank basement, where she gets to know herself and them in a different way, and meets a new man.   A young woman can find her courage in any situation, no matter how terrible, and love is always a possibility.  "In her well-researched novel, Fillmore vividly portrays Amsterdam, Rachel, and her family. . . An intense tale that gives the tragedies of history a Dutch dwelling and a family name." Kirkus Reviews "This deeply spectacular literary fireworks show of hope, strength and renewal will captivate every reader at the first word." --Bookstr, "10 Historical Fiction Reads to Devour" " An Address in Amsterdam is the biggest literary event for the historical fiction genre this year..." --Redbook, "20 Books By Women You Must Read" "Hey historical fiction aficionados...add this profound book to your Amazon cart immediately." --PopSugar, "21 Fiction Reads to Check Out" " This novel demonstrates that bravery and love can help to conquer even the most hopeless situations." --Buzzfeed, "5 Historical Fiction Reads to Curl Up with" "Debut author Mary Fillmore serves up a complex, engrossing and gorgeous historical fiction tale." --Brit + Co, "11 Fall Reads to Keep You As Warm As Your PSL" "This is one of the stories that will hover just outside my conscience for the rest of my life. Rachel is just one woman, but her experiences remind me of all the untold stories - the victims and persecutors, those who were complicit in their silence, and the ordinary people who lived and fought and died, transformed into heroes through their willingness to risk everything for justice and freedom." --Books J'adore, "An Address in Amsterdam" "Fillmore paints a chilling portrait of how venomous ideology, backed by brute force, gradually infiltrates a seemingly enlightened society. Ample research informs her tale of Rachel's coming of age -- a severely embattled one, but not without its moments of hope and joy." --Seven Days Vermont, "Page 32" After a lifetime of private creative writing, I was seized by a subject too important to hide in my journal or a letter to friends. Living in a house where Jewish people were hidden inspired my novel, An Address in Amsterdam, to be published by She Writes Press in October 2016. Since my first lengthy stay in Amsterdam in 2001, I have been visiting, researching, writing, and talking about the Holocaust and resistance in the Netherlands. No, I'm neither Dutch nor Jewish, just a lover of the city of Amsterdam and its people, living and dead. I would have been a neighbor of the deported citizens had I been alive at that time, and I will always wonder whether I would have colluded passively, collaborated, or resisted as I would hope.   To develop my craft as a writer to be worthy of this topic, I earned my MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2005. I like giving talks which explore the many shades of grey in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, and the wrenching choices which good people face, then and now. The Vermont Humanities Council Speakers' Bureau sponsors my presentation of "Anne Frank's Neighbors: What Did They Do?," and I am always looking for ways to spread the message that action is always possible against persecution and oppression. Praise for An Address in Amsterdam "Because I lived in Amsterdam through the German Occupation myself, the author had asked me over the years to check the historical facts and the verisimilitude of her well-paced plot. When the latest version arrived at my desk, I found myself pushing everything else aside to read it cover to cover and follow the development of the rich palette of characters--d