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1) Heartwood
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English
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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.
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English
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Autumn, 1943. Life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive: to leave Venice and her family, to hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary to run his family's farm. He could not stand by when the fascists and Nazis began taking innocent lives. Nina will pose as...
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Series
Cannie Shapiro volume 2
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English
Description
Weiner's sequel finds author Cannie Shapiro years after her debut novel, based on her own life, became an overnight success. Now she's turned to anonymously writing sci-fi, and is enjoying being a soccer mom and doctor's wife. But when 13-year-old daughter Joy finds her steamy novel, she has to answer some questions that will affect the entire family.
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English
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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Description
Summer 1940: Hedy Bercu fled Vienna two years ago. Now she watches the skies over Jersey for German planes, convinced that an invasion is imminent. When it finally comes, there is no counterattack from Allied forces--the Channel Islands are simply not worth defending. Most islanders and occupying forces settle into an uneasy coexistence, but for Hedy, the situation is perilously different. For Hedy is Jewish--a fact that could mean deportation, or...
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Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A pair of Jewish sisters flee the Communist Revolution to British-occupied Palestine, where they create a blended family with a widower and his children before the horrors of the Holocaust send them to lives in France and America.
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Series
Zion chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
After surviving World War II and the Nazis, Rachel travels to Jerusalem, where she discovers long-lost family and faces the contempt of her people.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills, and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passion for a married man.
15) The thief
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Series
Living water volume 2
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Roman centurion hopes to transfer away from the Judean province, while a Jewish woman with a secret survives with the help of a thief called Mouse, until both of their paths involve them in the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus.
17) Smuggled
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In the final winter of the Second Word War, five-year-old Éva Farkas is sewn into a flour sack and smuggled across the Hungarian border to Romania. She is renamed Anca and forbidden to speak Hungarian ever again. When the pillars of Communism finally crumble, Anca returns to Hungary to find a home and reclaim the name her mother gave her.
18) In paradise
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Publisher
Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
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.
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.
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