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The Bronze Bow
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Elizabeth George Speare
Daniel bar Jamin, 18, is determined to help his countrymen drive the Romans out of Israel. He feels it is his patriotic duty to do this, but he is also seeking revenge for the death of his parents. Thinking only of his goal, Daniel ignores his sister's worsening mental illness and the tenderness offered by his friends. Will a Rabbi named Jesus be ...
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Redemption Street
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Reed Farrel Coleman
Moe Prager is a retired New York City police officer who reinvented himself as a high-end wine merchant. Burned out from his work on the force, Moe is nonetheless unable to resist getting involved in the investigation of a fire that occurred 15 years ago at a Catskill resort--the very fire that killed his first love.
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The book of Abraham
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Marek Halter
The story begins in Jerusalem in 70 AD as Abraham the Temple scribe flees the destruction of his home. Two thousand years and a hundred generations later, another Abraham perishes, immolated in the fires of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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The World to Come
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Dara Horn
With astonishing grace and simplicity, Horn interweaves a real art heist, history, biography, theology, and Yiddish literature. Richly satisfying, utterly unique, her novel opens the door to "the world to come"--not life after death, but the world people create through their actions right now. Reading group guide included.
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Jerusalem: The City of God
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Ellen Gunderson Traylor
Ancient Jerusalem becomes the backdrop for a sweeping epic novel of God and man. From the stormy flashes of creation to holy wars to the Middle Ages, Traylor weaves together the history of the city and the lives of prophets, pilgrims, politicians and soldiers who entered its gates.
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The seventh well
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Fred Wander
In 1938, Wander left his mother and sister behind in Vienna and fled to France, where later he was put on a train to Auschwitz. This novel, originally published in 1970, tells the stories of his fellow inmates and demonstrates that the survival of a single man is a collaborative enterprise.
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The Book of Dahlia
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Elisa Albert
From the author of the acclaimed story collection "How This Night Is Different" comes a fearless, arresting, outrageously funny exploration of one young woman's terminal illness.
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Marjorie Morningstar
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Herman Wouk
Marjorie Morningstar is 19 when she is offered the job of her dreams working in a summer stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. She is immediately engulfed in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest, and most destructive, love of her life.
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Fateless
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Imre Kertesz
Fateless is the first English translation of a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boy's experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war.
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First Light
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Bodie Thoene, Ph.D., Brock Thoene, Ph.D.
The first in a new series that transports readers back to the time of Jesus Christ brings to life with detailed historical and biblical research. "First Light" opens just after the massacre of Jews before Passover in Jerusalem. There are those who pray for light--the True Light of the Messiah.
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Who by Fire
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Diana Spechler
[T]here are no defining moments, no cast list stuck to a family's refrigerator door with an alphabet magnet. It's every single thing that happens to a family, the combination of experiences, that determines how they treat each other - from "Who By Fire". When Bits and Ash were children, their younger sister was kidnapped, a tragedy that led to ...
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Family Moskat
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Tells the story of the prosperous Moskat family, Polish Jews living in Warsaw between the dawn of the 20th century and the gloom of 1939. Characters in this novel include saints and swindlers, tough Zionists and mystic philosophers, and medieval Rabbis and ultra-modern painters.
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First Light
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Brock Thoene, Ph.D., Bodie Thoene, Ph.D.
Go back in time to first century Jerusalem--a dark time in the world's holiest and most turbulent city. This first book in the A.D. Chronicles series will bring readers face to face with the man called Yeshua.
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Forever Street
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Frederic Morton
This masterful tale draws on the author's experiences living with his family in Vienna before World War II. When he fled the Holocaust in 1939, he escaped with two priceless possessions: his vivid memory and an exceptional narrative gift.
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In the Beginning
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Chaim Potok
The story of a boy who grows up in the Bronx through the twenties, the Depression, World War II and its aftermath, and is forced by these events into radically reassessing what it means for him to be a Jew. The author also wrote "The Chosen".
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The Mandelbaum Gate
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Muriel Spark
Freddy Hamilton, a diplomat based in Israel, tries to talk Barbara Vaughan out of a trip to Jordan to see her fiancé. Barbara, a Roman Catholic who is also half-Jewish, defies Freddy and travels to Jordan. Realizing that she is in danger, Freddy goes off in search of her but suffers a two-day memory lapse. When his memory returns, he realizes that ...
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Good as Gold
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Joseph Heller
A funny and sad story of children grown up, parents grown old, friends and lovers grown apart - grown apart, yet yoked together by memories, resentments, love, secrets, dreams, old jokes. By the author of "Catch-22" and "Something Happened".
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The Book of Lights
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Chaim Potok
With Gershon, a young student, and his friend Arthur, son of a famous nuclear physicist, this novel takes the reader from New York, to the Korean War, to Hiroshima and Jerusalem.
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The Penitent
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I Just Want My Pants Back
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David Rosen, Rabbi
Jason Strider hooks up with a cute girl and ends up lending her his Dickies jeans. Many e-mails and text messages later, he is unable to reconnect with her. How Jason gets his pants back, and how the concepts of maturity and mortality come to enter his slackers existence, form the matter of this smart, affecting first novel.
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Past Continuous
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Yaakov Shabtai
"Past Continuous" is a brilliant tour de force, a Joycean panorama of the lives of three men, their families, their lovers, and their friends in the quintessentially modern city of Tel Aviv. It is as much a novel about Tel Aviv-its landscape, its idiosyncratic atmosphere, and its history-as it is about the human condition.
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The Loves of Judith
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Meir Shalev, Ms. Barbara Harshav (Translator)
The internationally bestselling story of three men in the Jezreel Valley and their love for a woman and her son, whom each man participates in raising as his own.
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Bearing the Body
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Ehud Havazelet
Havazelets poignant novel is a story about history and memory, family and loss. Most of all, it is a book about the past, which, far from receding quietly, weighs ever more heavily on those who hope to leave it behind.
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Bech is Back
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John Updike
The renowned Henry Bech is now 50 years old and reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorcee from Westchester, and--surprise to all--writes a runaway bestseller.
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Elected Member
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Bernice Rubens
Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes...until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia. For Norman, his committal to a mental hospital represents the ultimate act of ...
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