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2) Heartwood
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
8) 4 3 2 1
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping family saga (with a bit of a twist) about the life and loves of Archie Ferguson, a Jewish boy born to second-generation immigrants in the United States just after World War II.
Author
Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus volume 14
Publisher
Warner Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was the stunned, pale look of bad news. The call was from Rabbi Jonathan Levine, Decker's recently discovered half brother. There has been a murder in Jonathan's family; his brother-in-law, a Hassidic Jew and former drug addict, was found naked in a seedy Manhattan hotel, a single gunshot wound to his head. And his niece, fifteen-year-old Shaynda, is missing... In a desperate bid to track down the missing girl, Decker finds himself in an alien...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
James A'bair, whose father is the author of the popular series "The Bear Boy," has taken in the eccentric Mitwisser family and the orphaned Rose Meadows, who must resist the pull of the actual Bear Boy, in a novel of Depression-era New York.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Wrestling with the contradictions in her life, rabbi Deborah Green discovers a world of tragedy, madness, love, and redemption when she encounters Henry Friedman, an older patient and Holocaust survivor who had attempted suicide.
12) The list
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Dramatizing explosive events in London and Palestine in the years directly following World War II, this story follows the lives of Edith and Georg, Austrian refugees who are expecting their first baby in a world unfriendly to Jews. Anti-semitism sweeps across the streets of London even as the world learns of the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
As Hannah Pearl's memories of her 1940 escape from war-torn France to England become ever more vivid, her present-day relationships with her daughter and granddaughters are altered, and they confront the impact of the past on the present.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the classic fairy tale, set in Nazi-occupied Poland, follows two Jewish children, left by their father and stepmother to seek refuge in a dense forest, as they wander the woods until being taken in by Magda, an eccentric old woman.
15) The queen's fool
Author
Series
Tudor court volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In 1553, Hannah Green, a young Jewish girl, flees to London to escape the Spanish Inquisition and catches the attention of Robert Dudley, who plans to use her talents for observation and second sight.
16) The dinner party
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This night is different from all other nights...three families, one unforgettable dinner. This will be the night the Golds of Greenwich meet the Rothschilds of New York City. The Rothschilds are the stuff of legend, and when Sylvia finds out that her youngest of three is going to bring her new boyfriend to the Sedar, she's giddy... Making a good impression is all she thinks about. Well, almost. She still has to consider her other daughter, Sarah,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters' great-grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the lethal agent used in the Third Reich's gas chambers--inspired in part by the troubled life of Fritz Haber, Nobel Prizewinner...
18) First light
Author
Series
A.D. chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Go back in time to first-century Jerusalem. It's a dark time in the world's holiest and most turbulent city. Walk with Peniel, the blind beggar who longs for rescue from his suffering. Peek into the lives of Susannah and Manaen, two lovers separated by overwhelming odds. And meet an unusual healer, who ignites a spark of controversy in the fire of hatred, deceit, and betrayal that is always burning in this ancient city.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an effort to survive - and change the fate of their family forever"--...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 2002, thirty-two-year-old Selim Osman, the last descendant of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, flees Istanbul for New York. In a twist of fate he meets Hannah, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and an artist striving to understand a father she barely knows. Unaware the connection they share goes back centuries, the two feel an immediate pull to one another. But as their story intertwines with that of their ancestors, the heroic but ultimately...
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