Fiction - Jewish

Germany, 1938. 'No, ' she cries out as she falls to the floor, fear clutching desperately at her chest, 'They can't have taken him, they can't have taken my husband.' As her tear-filled eyes dart wildly around the empty room, she realises she has...

"Uniformly excellent."--The Jewish StandardThis rich medley of stories, poems, and essays features evocations of Chanukah by classic and contemporary authors including Sholom Aleichem, Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon and Elie Wiesel, I. L. Peretz, Emma Lazarus, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Potok, Mark Strand, A. B....

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist In the vein of The Chosen, Catcher in the Rye, and The Kite Runner comes Adam Unrehearsed, a "hilarious, deeply moving, coming-of-age comedy" (Yossi Klein Halevi). From the moment he's mugged on the subway home from Bat Day at...

Winner of the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, selected by Amina Gautier Eric Hoffer Award finalist The stories in One of Us explore the tension between groups and individuals, the allure of tribalism, the claustrophobia of belonging, and the alienation that...

When her village in Albion is sacked by the Roman general Vespasian, young Aislin is left without home and family. Determined to exact revenge, she travels to Rome, a sprawling city of wealth, decadence, and power. A "barbarian" in a "civilized" world, Aislin struggles...

Suburban Heathens follows the trajectory of parallel and converging catastrophes that begin with the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s and the protagonist's best friend's death, and continue with her father's struggle with heart disease, actually made worse by medical interventions witnessed by the wandering...

"Hilarious, refreshing, tightly plotted, and vividly written. An irresistible read."--Jonas Jonasson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared"A seriously funny take on death and dying." --Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewAn ingeniously plotted dark comedy by...

Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson-the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants-who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.Author: Linda KassISBN-10: 1647425409ISBN-13: 9781647425401Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2023Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight:...

On a summer night in 1985, three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything changes. A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year - A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction -...

How do you reconcile a decision you made in the past when the world erupts in war, threatening the life of someone you love and believe you were protecting?Adrian Mazurek immigrated to the United States from Krakow, Poland, 14 years ago and is now...

This extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovich's "Litvak saga," his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town in the late nineteenth century, the story begins with the arrival of a stranger who sets everyone on edge and...

From the author of THE MATZAH BALL and MR. PERFECT ON PAPER comes this hilarious and emotional rivals-to-lovers romance. Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don't fall in love... Avital Cohen isn't wearing underpants--woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced...

A young holocaust survivor tries to create a new life in the newly established state of Israel. Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war ended because he spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged...

For nine months in Auschwitz, eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity by playing piano on imaginary keyboards. After liberation, Eva and the five remaining Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, journey home, seeking to restart their lives. Yet the town that deported them is not ready...

An instant New York Times BestsellerBeloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel of hope and forgiveness that moves from a coastal Greek city during WWII to America in the golden age of Hollywood, as the intertwined lives of three young survivors...

A coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, this "profound and universal" (The Wall Street Journal) story of faith, family, tradition, and assimilation remains deeply pertinent today. "Works of this caliber should be occasion for singing in the...

Author: Pam JenoffISBN-10: 8885784445ISBN-13: 9798885784443Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 8.79h x 5.77w x 1.36dLarge Print

For nine months in Auschwitz, eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity by playing piano on imaginary keyboards. After liberation, Eva and the five remaining Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, journey home, seeking to restart their lives. Yet the town that deported them is not ready...

The highly awaited new novel from the internationally bestseller, and author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War)."Rich and captivating...a vivid story of love, sacrifice and betrayal." -Woman's WorldVenice, 1943The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a...

A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical story--one of the most influential of the 20th century--about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every...

What happens when you drop an agnostic Jewish surgeon in a century-old Catholic hospital, where the doctor meets dogma and falls for the CEO? A nun, for God's sake.Dr. Martin Fischer, a white-coated Quixote, tilts his scalpel at the bloated underbelly of U.S. healthcare...

Everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie.Nichelle Sampson is living the life she always dreamed of. She's a political science professor like her father, is in her sorority's leadership like her mother, and has wonderful friends. The only thing missing is...

When Zayn, your smoking hot boss, tells you never to touch the cache of deluxe tattoo ink locked away in his office, you listen to him...until the day you run out of your own ink, your squirming client is on the verge of peeing...

An instant New York Times BestsellerBeloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel of hope and forgiveness that moves from a coastal Greek city during WWII to America in the golden age of Hollywood, as the intertwined lives of three young survivors...

"Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope." (Buzzfeed)"A layered novel of many complex characters...To keep their worlds safe, Chava and Ahmad must access both their greatest supernatural powers and their deepest human impulses."...

"An unflinchingly honest romance." --Kirkus, starred reviewFrom the author of THE MATZAH BALL and MR. PERFECT ON PAPER comes this hilarious and emotional rivals-to-lovers romance.Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don't fall in love...Avital Cohen isn't wearing underpants--woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic...

Two childhood rivals are forced to work together to plan their parents' anniversary party in "this pitch-perfect enemies-to-lovers rom-com." (BookPage) New Yorker Molly Blum knows everything about her lifelong nemesis, Jude Stark. With their families so close, they should have been best friends. Instead,...

"Until they broke my legs no one could run faster than me. Thanks to my amazing speed, I won races, eluded street gangs and bullies, and also managed to grab and run, to steal. I was proud of my running but not of stealing....

Auschwitz, 1944: "You can't leave me," I whisper, my hand trembling as I reach for her cheek. "You can't. We're in this life together, always, just you and me." This utterly heartbreaking yet beautifully hopeful World War Two page-turner tells the story of identical...

"An unflinchingly honest romance." --Kirkus, starred reviewFrom the author of THE MATZAH BALL and MR. PERFECT ON PAPER comes this hilarious and emotional rivals-to-lovers romance.Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don't fall in love...Avital Cohen isn't wearing underpants--woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic...

Author: Ronald H. BalsonISBN-10: 8885786855ISBN-13: 9798885786850Publisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2023Pages: 588Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 8.67h x 5.79w x 1.18dLarge Print

Perfect wives, imperfect lives, and upending the rules of behavior in 1960s America.Law school graduate and newlywed Ruth Appelbaum is acclimating to life and marriage in a posh Philadelphia neighborhood. She'll do almost anything to endear herself to her mother-in-law, who's already signed up...

"Until they broke my legs no one could run faster than me. Thanks to my amazing speed, I won races, eluded street gangs and bullies, and also managed to grab and run, to steal. I was proud of my running but not of stealing....

* A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2023 * NYLON * THE MILLIONS * LITHUB * DEBUTIFUL * AND MORE! * "Blistering . . . Mad Men ambition meets an epic, existential meltdown." --VANITY FAIR, 20 Best Books of 2023 "[Purkert is] a sharply...

Three New York City girls form an irrevocable bond that compensates for the emotional needs not met by their own families. Through the lens of the main character, To Live Another Day directly speaks to the day-to-day challenges faced by daughters and granddaughters of...

Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about two people fighting for reconciliation over unforgivable crimes of the past. Taking over from her father and grandfather as the head of the Survivor's Campaign, an organization whose...

Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York's Lower East Side, Sara's vocation...

In 1939 a young girl sits alone in a station waiting room in Marseilles. Half-Jewish Ilse has been sent out of Nazi Germany to safety in Morocco by her mother. But her journey takes her back to France, where she cannot escape the Nazi...

Suffering guards its mysteries, but when an upswell of antisemitism forces Rachel into hiding from the Righteous, she begins her journey to its center.The journey will take her back in history, to Sariah, a young woman whose status during the Inquisition is doubly-marred as...

In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance. "A wonderfully imaginative, wholly enchanting novel of witness,...

Reading the West Book Awards Nominee The "gloriously original" (The New York Times) and critically acclaimed crime series starring a Chicago hitman hiding out as a rabbi in the desert suburbs of Las Vegas comes to its thrilling conclusion Mafia hit-man-turned-rabbi Sal Cupertine is...

Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time -- and another triumphfor Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger....

Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson-the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants-who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.Author: Linda KassISBN-10: 1647425956ISBN-13: 9781647425951Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2023Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight:...

The first adventure in the Mirror Realm Cycle, a Spanish Inquisition-era fantasy trilogy inspired by Jewish folklore, with echoes of Naomi Novik and Katherine Arden. Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but not dream. She can write with both hands at once,...

The World Needs a Mensch... But Stewie Blueschwitz will have to do. A somewhat nebbishy twelve year old, Stewie would have been a curious choice to be a novel's protagonist, were it not for the one unique and hidden ability he discovers. Devoting it...

The author of the "unforgettable story of strength, love, and survival" (Jillian Cantor, USA TODAY bestselling author) The Light After the War returns with a sweeping and evocative story of love and purpose in WWII Italy.Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her...

Austria 1929When three little girls-Anna, Bernie, and Elica-make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them.Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As...

Praise for THE EVIL INCLINATION"An exhilarating, spellbinding tale ... that will surprise, astonish and move you deeply."- Joseph Telushkin, best-selling author of Words That Hurt, Words That Heal."A captivating love story pitting passion against faith ... an irresistible read..."- Judith Shulevitz, best-selling author of...

A bloodcurdling drama unravels in the shadow of Mengele's dark, twisted obsession.Ernst must face his nemesis as he battles to save Shoshana, Bluma, Perle, and ultimately, his heart.Marcel Petoit has weaponized Gisele's dark secrets. Will she escape his evil grip?Will Herschel and Naomi ever...

Seventy-eight-year-old Mavis rides a motorcycle, smokes a stogie, and swears like a sailor. Eighty-four-year-old Blooma bakes tasty strudel, as long as she doesn't confuse the sugar with the salt. Nothing satisfies sixty-eight-year-old Gertrude who complains that the early bird specials aren't early enough. And...