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1) Zaddik
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former detective investigates a deadly diamond heist among New York's Hassidic community in this "big, bright and successfully old-fashioned" thriller (Publishers Weekly).
Dov Taylor is an ex-cop. He's also an ex-husband, ex-drinker, and ex-observant Jew. The way he sees it, he doesn't have much to offer anybody. So he's surprised when he gets a summons from a rabbi in Brooklyn: A Hassidic man has been murdered during the theft of a priceless diamond,...
Series
Asher Lev volume 2
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1990.
Edition
First trade edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1976 Buenos Aires, Kaddish Poznan, the outcast son of a whore, and his wife, Lillian, are devastated by the disappearance of their own son, Pato, which forces them into the bleak corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases in search of the truth.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only...
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1989.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy.
Author
Language
English
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
13) The lost wife
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Language
English
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Description
During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry--only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005, ©1990
Physical Desc
439 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Leah and Shimon arrive in Jerusalem they find themselves pitted in a struggle against a sinister darkness which could threaten their safety in the new homeland.
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
16) The postcard
Author
Language
English
Description
"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war -- and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize in Economics, but he's dead. His four closest friends agree that the prize must stay within his grasp, and so they conspire to conceal Avishay's corpse until the committee's announcement, just eight days away. Their plan starts out simple: crank up the AC, take shifts watching the apartment, forge texts and emails. As the days pass, things start to unravel and hidden motives emerge.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
In the very white, very Christian world of Atlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
Summer, 1958. After her father's death, Ruth Robb's family moves from New York City to Atlanta. Ruth quickly figures out she can be Jewish or she can be popular, but she can't be both, and decides...
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