Fiction - Jewish

Dear Edna Sloane is a funny, fast-paced epistolary novel about fame, writers, ambition, and the ups and downs of a creative life.Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game. Her debut novel was an instant classic and commercial success, vaulting...

"A thoroughly enjoyable novel, both moving and astutely farcical." - Kirkus ReviewsMagical soup, a secret society, and a young girl, wise beyond her yearsWhen Rachel Cohen is born, her parents' marriage begins to crack. As she grows, and her village teeters on the brink,...

Readers of Stephanie Drey and Allison Pataki will enjoy this highly anticipated sequel, an epic saga of love set during the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt that explores loyalty, cultural failures, and a potentially history-altering military defeat. More than a year has elapsed since the...

The Village of Little Pletzl-on-the-Zump is the sequel to the book The Village of Little Comely-on-the-Marsh.Pletzl, the story, weaves around the lives of a bizarre Yiddish-speaking community of 613 people living for hundreds of years in a small village somewhere in the south of...

Ari Lazarus is a member of an elite Israeli secret agency, which hunts terrorists around the world and eliminates them.After Israel has been threatened with being "wiped off the map" by Iranian leaders and generals, Ari and groups of Israeli Special Forces determine that...

Yellow Jack and Turpentine is the first historical fiction novel about Jewish living in the Ozarks. Set in the 1880s and based on the memoir published in Documenting Jewish of the Ozarks a special double edition of OzarksWatch Magazine (and the most republished edition...

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. The...

Fantastic tales of demons and the Evil Eye, magical incantations, and powerful attractions abound in Enchantress, a novel that weaves together Talmudic lore, ancient Jewish magic, and a timeless love story set in fourth-century Babylonia. One of the most powerful practitioner of these mysterious...

An "epic and marvelously entertaining" family saga by award-winning author Linda Grant about the European Jewish experience from WWI to the present day, that "constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back" (Financial Times). It's 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter...

In the words of Lee Child on Gone to Dust, "I want more of Nils Shapiro." New York Times-bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman happily obliges by bringing the Minneapolis private detective back for another thrilling, standalone adventure in Dead West. Nils Shapiro...

Life-long Jewish friends Naomi, Miriam, and Becky are approaching middle-age gracefully and are content-despite a few hot flashes and mood swings-until life tosses each woman a crisis... When Becky, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, learns of her only son's engagement to a non-Jew, she...

A widow. A spinster. An angry young wife. Their paths cross in an arduous journey from Babylon to Yehud as Ezra leads the Jews back to their homeland. A vindictive Persian stalks the caravan to the Promised Land where unforeseen challenges threaten resettlement. Ancestral...

Ian, Jerome and Sarah (a Jew, a Catholic and a Protestant), the three attorneys who love to show up early to work to argue, find themselves arguing Israel's legal right to the Land of Israel this time around. Sarah poses a question that could...

Dovid was a poor man down on his luck in a 17th century Polish Jewish world traumatized by the pogroms of the Cossack chieftain Chmielnicki and reeling from the tragedy of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Eking out a meager existence reading psalms for...

From the award-winning author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and the new story collection, Awayland. In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands...

No one knows why John Carter has a number on his arm, obviously from a German Concentration Camp.He himself was never given a satisfactory answer about a tatoo which seems to have been with him all his life. His past - a dark mystery....

A dazzling debut novel set in New York City's Jewish immigrant community in 1935... How was it that out of all the girls in the office, I was the one to find myself in this situation? This didn't happen to nice Jewish girls. In...

In the highly anticipated second Amos Parisman mystery, a simple request turns into a complex investigation when Parisman's latest client is murdered before the job is complete.Author: Andy WeinbergerISBN-10: 194555195XISBN-13: 9781945551956Publisher: Prospect Park BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2020Pages: 296Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81dReview...

Author: Ellie MidwoodISBN-10: 1835257259ISBN-13: 9781835257258Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2024Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.71d

Author: Kelly Elizabeth HustonISBN-13: 9798987788561Publisher: Watermount PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2024Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.78d

Author: Suzanne KelmanISBN-10: 1837905304ISBN-13: 9781837905300Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2024Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.82d

Some people like comic books. They read them. They collect them. They grade them and sell them for a profit. Or, at least, they try to sell them for a profit. Comic book people love their comics from superheroes to romance to funny animals....

As World War II erupts, a young Jewish scribe flees Lithuania with his most prized possession, his in-progress copy of the Torah, setting him on an unusual collision course with a family of Chinese calligraphers living under Japanese occupation. A stranger in a strange...

Author: Gertrude LandaISBN-10: 1396326340ISBN-13: 9781396326349Publisher: Left of Brain BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2024Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.51d

This is an historical fiction novel. San Reina is a fictional town, imagined in Jamaica, West Indies. The story takes place in 1927 and features discussion of the economy around banana production, bustling local market activity and history of German emigration to Jamaica 1840's....

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 yearsAn ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality, and generational silence, City...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JANE WENHAM-JONES AWARD FOR COMEDY IN THE 2022 ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARDS**The new romantic comedy from the author of Adult Virgins Anonymous. Tamsyn Rutman is at yet another wedding, for yet another cousin. She wouldn't mind - the food's pretty good, the...

A poignant and humorous story of love despite dysfunction among an assimilating extended Jewish family riddled with secrets in suburban Cleveland during 1961.While in today's world they would just seem a bit eccentric, in 1961 suburban Cleveland, the Katofskys of 2207 South Green Road...

THE BOOK OF ORDER follows wife and mother Margaret Hoffman as she navigates Boston's suburbs in the days before Passover, arranging the affairs of her recently deceased father. He taught Jewish history at a local college, so along with her other tasks, she must...

In 1930s Berlin, young Henrik, the son of a Jewish father and Aryan mother, watches the world around him crumbling: people are rioting in the streets, a strange yellow star begins appearing in shop windows, and friends are forced to move--or they simply disappear....

"I have counted the days until you would return to my waiting arms, my insistent kisses. But now I know you never will..." On a rainy hike by Loch Lomond, Eve Waldman stumbles upon a perfectly preserved journal in a hidden cave. The time-worn...

When your world is out of tune, can music heal you?Cast out from her home after her mother's death, orphan Abigail Jones wanders around her English town on Christmas Eve of 1809. Desperately trying to suppress her cough-the same that killed her mother-Abigail begs...

From the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, eight powerful stories, dazzling in their display of language and imagination. From the title story, a provocative portrait of two marriages inspired by Raymond Carver's masterpiece, to "Peep Show" and "How We...

Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century.Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century.In eleven compelling narratives inheritors of...

A woman drops everything to spend more time with her grandchild, only to discover new truths about herself. A humorous, heartfelt, feel-good novel from the author of Crazy to Leave You.For Jodi Wexler, a Florida doctor with a flourishing practice, only one thing's missing:...

Author: John HerseyISBN-10: 0394756967ISBN-13: 9780394756967Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/1988Pages: 640Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.50d

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the final installment of the renowned Zuckerman series, a novel about love, mourning, desire, and animosity by "one of the greatest living American writers" (San Francisco Chronicle), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral....

How well do you really know those closest to you? Hannah's life seemed picture-perfect, until a chasm in her marriage revealed a chilling truth she never imagined. As she grapples with the shocking revelation, Hannah finds herself plunged into a nightmare from which there...

It's June1939. Three young Jewish girls, Rosi, her sister Anni, and their cousin Emilie, wait to board the Kindertransport train that will take them away from Nazi Germany, and a life of discrimination, to kind foster families in England. The parents hate to let...

Rabbi Goldstein has inspired countless Jews through rigorous and brilliant teaching and through her visionary leadership of congregations in Toronto, Ontario, Canton, Massachusetts, and Guatemala City, Guatemala. She has renewed the tradition through the fresh perspective of the feminist lens and through her distinctive...

2024 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is the life story of Anzia Yezierska and her struggle as a Jewish immigrant woman.The novel is set in the 1920s on the Lower...

"Barasch Rubinstein... does a marvelous job of bringing to vivid life the political and cultural landscape of Israel during terribly turbulent years." -- KirkusIn the 1980s, two childhood friends from Jerusalem establish a medical equipment startup. Their hunger for success propels them to professional...

Songs My Mother Taught Me follows the narrator, confronted with the imminent death of her mother, on a voyage to share the final leg of their lifelong journey together. With candor and lucidity, she retraces the passage from childhood to womanhood under the powerful...

When Paul, an ordinary Lithuanian-American immigrant living in the Chicago suburbs, receives a mysterious letter written in broken English, long buried family secrets threaten to blow up his carefully crafted life. Together with Galya, a Latvian-Israeli history student, Paul embarks on a dangerous search...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones, an unforgettable novel of remarkable bravery and perseverance, about a Jewish woman making her way through war-torn Italy during the Holocaust 1941, Italy. Lili and Esti have been best friends since meeting...

Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century.Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century. In eleven compelling narratives inheritors...

The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in predictable tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family apart.In the wake of...

"Lost in the alleys of a war-torn past, children displaced, their shadows cast.Yet in the heart's museum, their stories persist...." In the heart of Warsaw, amidst the shadows cast by the rise of a new political power, Talia Adler, an ordinary high school girl...

Dinah would be dancing lead roles with the famous Kirov ballet, but growing antisemitism threatens her career and her life, forcing her to flee to Philadelphia, which seems like her best chance until she finds out that success in her new homeland is very...

An old New York Catskills hotel is converted into a Reeducation center for star #MeToo offenders in a story full of cunning and craft, double meanings and doppelgangers. A finalist for the Jewish National Book Award strikes again with another brilliant satire--a treat for...