It’s this story that is told in “Between Shades of Gray,” the heart-wrenching debut novel from Ruta Sepetys. Sepetys is the granddaughter of a Lithuanian military officer who himself escaped ...

Sepetys’ story is the basis for her debut novel, “Between Shades of Gray” (Philomel, $17.99, ages 12 up), which details the efforts by a strong-willed, middle-class Lithuanian teen named ...

Employees of some bookstores have to be alerted that Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James and Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys have nothing to do with each other. James’ kinky erotica novel ...

Ruta Sepetys is the author of Between Shades of Gray. "You are an erotic phenomenon." That's what the stranger seated next to me on the plane whispered. We had exchanged the basic bios of airline ...