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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A traditional Jewish community in Memphis, Tennessee, is given a jolt with the arrival of a new art teacher from New York. A convert to Judaism, Batsheva Jacobs brings new ideas and before you know it, a rabbi's son does not want to be a rabbi anymore. A first novel.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
London, 1958. It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, shefinds herself a living widow, invisible. Ever since her husband disappeared seven years ago, Juliet has been a hardworking single mother of two and unnaturally practical. But on her thirtieth birthday, that's all about to change. A wealthy young artist asks to paint her portrait, and Juliet, moved by the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Hiding from the Nazis in the guise of a Christian farmer's wife, a Jewish woman is met with suspicion by a Nazi official who harbors a vendetta against the former seminary student posing as her husband.
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...
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies....
Author
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
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 grapplewith his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A saga of four gifted and sexy Jewish women. It begins with a Russian immigrant in 1910 and ends in the year 2000 with the great granddaughter who is a historian. The women participate in the main Jewish issues of the century, among them Jewish emigration and the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Upset when her boyfriend dumps her on Christmas, Jewish publicist Aimee Albert seeks companionship with a nice Jewish man and finds herself falling for Josh Hirsch, who mistakes her for a shiksa and who has a different attitude toward Judaism than she does.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of a liberated Jewish woman who refuses to follow society's rules, lives life to the fullest, and has a child with each of the three men she loves, all as World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and Nazism take over Europe.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow--a life filled with salons, balls, and all the trappings of the Upper Class--very different from her current life as a grocer's daughter in the...
11) A catered affair
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Finally sobering up after being jilted at the altar, Tallulah must contend with a difficult mother, a lesbian sister who is trying to have a baby, and a matchmaking grandmother.
12) We are gathered
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Maggie Shipstead and Maria Semple, a tender and funny debut that tells the story of an interfaith wedding in Atlanta -- from the perspectives of its (adoring, envious, resentful, hilarious) guests ... One afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia. Two people heading to the altar. One hundred fifty guests. The bride, Elizabeth Gottlieb, proud graduate of the University of Virginia and of Emory University School of Law, member of Atlanta's wealthy...
14) The tenth song
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Enjoying lives of privilege and promise while planning a wedding, Abigail and her Harvard law student daughter, Kayla, are shattered by a devastating tragedy that prompts Kayla to run away and join a desert commune.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An unsentimental, iconoclastic coming of age story of both a country (Israel) and a young immigrant, Grant's first novel introduces an unusually appealing heroine, narrator Evelyn Sert, and provides an unforgettable glimpse of a time and place rarely observed from an unsparing point of view. Na ve and idealistic, 20-year-old Evelyn, an incipient Zionist, leaves London for Palestine in April 1946 under false pretenses. Devoid of useful skills, she...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Brought up in a secularized Jewish household on Manhattan's upper Eastside, Nancy Green knows suspiciously little about her parents' past. She knows they were World War II Jewish refugees who were able to escape Germany with precious family heirlooms that are constant reminders of a lost life and world Nancy knows very little about. The longing she has for some kind of spiritual connection first leads her into an encounter with an Hassidic Jewish...
17) The Matzah Ball
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she's hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. But when her diversity-conscious publisher insists she write a Hanukkah romance, her well of inspiration suddenly runs dry. Rachel's determined to find her muse at the Matzah Ball--even if it means working with her summer camp archenemy Jacob Greenberg. As they spend more...
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