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"In 1983, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of trying to move on with their lives and resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream, coming to understand that though their money may have been what put...
3) First light
Author
Series
A.D. chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"From an up-and-coming screenwriter and New Yorker contributor, a hilarious novel in letters by members of an unconventional family, running the gamut from sardonic to heartfelt. From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents, over the course of three decades. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In 2018 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene took to social media to share her suspicions that the California wildfires were started by 'space solar generators' which were funded by powerful, mysterious backers. Instantly, thousands of people rallied around her, blaming the fires on "Jewish space lasers" and, ultimately, the Rothschild family. For more than 200 years, the name "Rothschild" has been synonymous with two things: great wealth, and conspiracy...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Demanding that her mother, father, and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
עברית
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The son of a respected elder in a cloistered Hasidic enclave unwittingly runs afoul of his father's strict religious doctrine when childhood life prompts questions outside the confines of tradition. A family holiday at the seashore brings the ideological rift to a dramatically tragic climax.
12) Berlin atomized
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Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A kinetic, globetrotting novel following three siblings--Jewish and downwardly mobile--from 2001 to 2034, as they come of age against the major crises of the 21st century."-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"From a remarkable new voice in fiction, Bethany Ball, comes a transporting debut; a hilarious multigenerational family saga set in Israel, New York, and Los Angeles that explores the secrets and gossip-filled lives of a kibbutz community near Jerusalem. Meet Marc Solomon, an Israeli ex-Navy commando now living in L.A., who is falsely accused of money laundering through his asset management firm. As the Solomons' Santa Monica home is raided, Marc's...
14) The free world
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Summer, 1978. Among the thousands of Soviet Jews who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are the members of the Krasnansky family-- three generations of Russian Jews. Together they will spend six months in Rome-- their way station and purgatory.
16) Duelo
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Series
Libros del Asteroide volume 185
Publisher
Libros del Asteroide
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Usted no escribirá nada sobre esto, me preguntó o me ordenó mi papá, su índice elevado, su tono a medio camino entre súplica y mandamiento. Pensé en responderle que un escritor nunca sabe de qué escribirá, que un escritor no elige sus historias sino que éstas lo eligen a él, que un escritor no es más que una hoja seca en el soplo de su propia narrativa. Pero por suerte no dije nada. Usted no escribirá nada sobre esto, repitió mi papá,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and to reunite. It is the spring of 1939, and three generations...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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Early in World War II, a Jewish family battles the U.S. government to save relatives trapped by the Nazi advance in Europe and unwittingly loses a son. Inspired by the parents' example, the youth runs away to join the Canadian army and is killed. By the author of Tales of the Master Race.
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