Andrea Fuchs Petzi | Andrea Fuchs Petzi author

Andrea Fuchs Petzi is the author of more than twenty books, including historical novels, family sagas, contemporary literary fiction, and poetry. While varied in form and setting, her works are united by a sustained engagement with history as lived experience—history not as spectacle, but as an intimate, often moral force shaping private lives.

The books are presented below by literary grouping rather than chronology, reflecting the internal logic of the work.

I Historical Fiction

II Family Sagas & Central European Novels

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III Contemporary & Transatlantic Fiction

Title Page of the novel The School Director

Title Page of the novel The Italian Class

Title Page of the novel The Two Lives of Wiliam NIemand

IV Poetry and Short Works

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V Children’s & Philosophical Fables (Selected)

Novels concerned with empire, political ambition, cultural collision, and historical rupture, written with close psychological attention.

Gutenberg: The First Tech Rebel is a historical novel that portrays Johannes Gutenberg as a daring innovator who defied tradition and power, igniting a revolution that transformed knowledge, culture, and the modern world.
The Journey: Life and Legacy of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) is a is a historical novel tracing Edith Stein’s path from brilliant Jewish philosopher to Carmelite nun and martyr, exploring faith, conscience, and moral courage in the face of twentieth-century tyranny.
The Seat of Courage: Rosa Parks and the Birth of a Movement is a historical novel that brings to life the quiet defiance of Rosa Parks, revealing how a single, steadfast act ignited the American civil rights movement and reshaped a nation’s conscience.
Hildegard: A Voice of Courage and Light is a historical novel that portrays Hildegard of Bingen as a visionary thinker and fearless woman whose faith, intellect, and creativity illuminated a darkening medieval world.
St. Rose: The First Saint of the Americas is a historical novel that vividly reimagines the life of Rose of Lima, whose radical faith, compassion, and quiet resistance reshaped sanctity in the New World.
Carlota: The Empress of Miramare is a historical novel that traces the rise and tragic unraveling of Carlota of Belgium, whose imperial dreams at Miramare collide with exile, loss, and the brutal realities of power.

Multi-generational narratives rooted in Franconia and Bohemia, tracing ordinary lives through war, displacement, and the persistence of memory.

Forget Me Nots is a sweeping family saga that follows generations bound by love, memory, and resilience, revealing how ordinary lives endure and transform amid the upheavals of history.
The Dragons under the Skin is a European novel set in the aftermath of the Second World War, exploring buried trauma, racial tensions, and the unspoken legacies of guilt and survival that shape lives long after the fighting ends.

Heartbeats and Other Lessons is a collection of short stories set in 1960s and 1970s Germany, capturing a generation coming of age amid social change, emotional awakening, and the quiet reckoning with a turbulent past.
Sisters is a family saga that traces the intertwined lives of women bound by blood and choice, exploring loyalty, rivalry, and the enduring strength of sisterhood across generations.
Under Quiet Skies is a contemporary portrait of small-town Germany, where Ukrainian refugees and visiting émigrés from America briefly converge, revealing how migration, memory, and belonging reshape even the calmest landscapes.

Novels shaped by migration, education, and reinvention, often set between Europe and California.

The Oaktree: Not Interested in Cherry Blossoms is a quietly powerful novel about a family on the brink, where fleeting allure and easy escapes are weighed against endurance, responsibility, and the slow, unseen work of choosing what truly lasts.
Dekalog is a deeply resonant novel in which an elderly Polish immigrant confronts family conflict, faith, and the corrosive temptations of sudden wealth, testing how the timeless moral compass of the Ten Commandments can still guide fractured lives in the modern world.
The Rhythm of Life is a collection of short stories that move through grief, memory, healing, and quiet revelation, tracing how ordinary lives—across continents and generations—continue to pulse with meaning even in moments of loss and stillness.
Blessings is an epic, cross-cultural novel that follows the enduring power of oaths, curses, and blessings across centuries, revealing how words spoken long ago shape destinies—and how language itself may offer the only path to release.
The Two Lives of William Niemand follows a scarred English teacher in Los Angeles whose carefully isolated life is undone by memory, loss, and quiet miracles, leading him toward family, faith, and the courage to begin again.
The School Director is a gentle, inspiring novel about renewal and perseverance, following a UCLA lecturer who creates a language school from a single classroom and, through patience, care, and faith in human connection, builds a lasting place where cultures meet and lives are changed.
The Transformation of Martha Leland is a haunting, philosophical novel in which a solitary retired librarian is drawn into a storytelling program that mirrors her own life, tempting her to rewrite her past and ultimately to dissolve the boundary between author and self, until reinvention becomes both liberation and disappearance.
The Italian Class is a warm, suspenseful novel about friendship discovered late in life and courage awakened where it is least expected.
The Humming Bird is a lyrical novel about recovery and resilience, in which a woman’s convalescence becomes a meditation on friendship, shared courage, and the quiet grace that endures in the presence of illness and uncertainty.

Lyric and reflective works marked by restraint, precision, and attentiveness to time, place, and inner life.

The Between Days is an intimate poetry collection of mostly sonnets and a few free verses, gathering a lifetime of quiet moments, playful rhythms, and sincere reflections into a gentle record of joy, sorrow, and love lived between ordinary days.

A small body of children’s literature and philosophical fables, written with clarity and quiet humor, attentive to wonder, ethical reflection, and the natural world.

Wings of Courage is a magical children’s story about a young monarch butterfly who, with the help of his friends, learns that true bravery comes not from speed or strength but from friendship, trust, and hope.
The Garden of Wisdom is a gentle children’s tale in which a young butterfly and his friends discover, through magical encounters, that true wisdom lives in kindness, courage, and the joy of learning together.
Wings of Hope is a gentle children’s tale about a young monarch butterfly who learns, through storms, friendship, and first flight, that hope is not something to carry alone but a light meant to be shared.
Wings of Defiance is a stirring children’s story in which a young butterfly learns to stand firm against fear and injustice, discovering that true bravery sometimes means refusing to yield when the wind blows hardest.
Return to the Garden is a gentle children’s story about coming home wiser, as Danny the butterfly revisits the Magical Garden and discovers that the lessons of courage, kindness, and wonder deepen each time they are remembered and shared.