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2017.
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English
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"An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, anemigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a...
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then...
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English
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Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
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Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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A conflict breaks out between liberal and orthodox Jews in a summer resort in New York State. The liberals live in the town while the orthodox are summer tourists who are led by a hardline rabbi. By the author of The Family Markowitz.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"Myla Goldberg's "Bee Season" is a bittersweet coming-of-age in which wise little Eliza Naumann's quirky passion for spelling bees unites and divides her family while revealing universal truths about the often crippling pain of love".--Martha McPhee, author of "Bright Angel Time".
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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A novel on a Jewish community in 19th century Poland. It is centered on four women--one is barren, another gives birth to a child out of wedlock, a third emigrates to America, a fourth has a son arrested for revolutionary activity. A first novel.
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Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"From the two-time National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, a short, powerful novel about an American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapple with his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father"--
1996. Clements Olin, an American professor of Holocaust Studies, is on a weeklong spiritual...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series.
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter,...
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter,...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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In New England, love conquers all between Jews and Christians. Jewish Natalie Marx overcomes the bias of the Christian Berrys to marry Kris Berry, while Christian Nelson Berry overcomes the bias of the Jewish Feldmans to marry Linette Feldman. Both families own hotels.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Haunted by the events of World War II, young Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, a severely disfigured soldier who recovers in the family's stately African home, a situation that binds them when George saves Cressida's family from financial ruin.
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Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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In 16th century Italy, Grazia dei Rossi, daughter of a Jewish banker falls in love with a Christian nobleman, but is rejected by his family. She marries a Jewish doctor, the marriage lacks passion and when she has a child it is by the nobleman.
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Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
c1985
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English
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When a Holocaust survivor's son discovers that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, the son also discovers that the Nazi is still alive. What begins as a quest for his father's love becomes a reenactment of the past, as the son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge.
20) Ulysses
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English
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Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyces first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely follows the episodes of Ulysses from the Odyssey...
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