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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425266267Author Alyson RichmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

One mother's desperate hope for survival. 1943: In occupied Paris, Celine creates bespoke bouquets at her father's flower shop on rue Cler, whilst trying to shield her young daughter from the brutal reality of war. But when an SS officer takes an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782346852Author Tony KlingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint AUK AuthorsPublisher Andrews UK LimitedWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179208Author Aleksandar TismaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Emerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New York City. If she's learned anything from made-for-TV romance movies, it's that she'll find love in a small town-the kind with harvest festivals, delightful but quirky characters, and scores of...

A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the victims is a migrant worker without any papers, only a salary slip from the bakery where she worked as a night cleaner. As her body lies unclaimed in the morgue, her employers are labelled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958972083Author Joie DavidowFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954404007Author Hans Von TrothaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press

In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210903Author Beatrice WeinreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)...

Poland, 1941. A mother. A child. An impossible choice.Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Roza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer's barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral.Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot...

Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the spontaneity and unthinking impulsiveness that made him great has been replaced by a paralysing self-consciousness. Overwhelmed, Axler's...

Does the mystery behind a recently discovered medieval manuscript hold the secret to the survival of the Jewish people?Russell Woolfe, a faded TV producer, is struggling with his father's death. Deeply uncomfortable with his own Jewish identity, he is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250046390Author Ronald H BalsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945, it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. The book tells a...

Rich in plot and full of characters that have been neglected by Irish literature. - GuardianAt the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from the continent in search of a better life in America, only to pitch up in Ireland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449001158Author Chaim PotokFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Jewish Book Award 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780307277183Author Joshua HenkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

Filtering the darkest, most dramatic period of modern Jewish history through the naive, often sage, perspective of a remarkable dog, The Jewish Dog offers readers a view of the Holocaust as never seen before. This bestselling novel in Israel follows the...

A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have-no surprise-typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith...

"Kirsty Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautiful novel."- Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzA gripping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879237981Author Aharon AppelfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint David R. Godine Publisher IncPublisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785079726Author Jemma WayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 317g

A family scattered. Lovers torn apart. A painting that unites them all. ...

A husband seeks his wife's lover who is lost in the turbulence of Israel's Yom Kippur War. As the story of his quest unfolds and grows in intensity, the main protagonists are drawn into the search and are transformed by it: through the different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize for Literature 1978.Book InformationISBN 9781632060389Author Isaac Bashevis SingerFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590515846Author Olga GrjasnovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 396g

From award-winning Eritrean author Haji Jabir comes a profoundly intimate novel about one man's tireless attempt to find his place in the world. Dawoud is on the run from his murky past, aiming to discover where he belongs. He tries to assimilate into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632062208Author Ricardo PigliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books

So two Jews were on a train. "All Eastern European Jewish jokes start this way, or almost," says Adam Biro, who has masterfully assembled this rich volume of such stories, tales in which we hear the voices of generations using humor to teach about the...

First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of intimate feelings and scandalous behaviors, shot through with a dark humor. From the perch of a diarist...

"In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century. Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered, this is an important and...

Professor Yohanan Rivlin has two obsessions, the first and most ambitious, is to understand the Arab mind - no mean feat in itself though perhaps made easier by the fact that he lives and works with Israeli Arabs. The second - and more personal, though...

'Jewish stories', writes Adam Biro, 'resemble every people's stories'. Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales - 'There's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551523750Author Gabriella GoligerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Reuven Fenton's novel Goyhood is a brilliant debut about a devoutly Orthodox Jewish man who discovers in middle age that he's not, in fact, Jewish, and embarks on a remarkable road trip to come to grips with his fate; it's Chaim Potok's The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375508295Author Dorit RabinyanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611883541Author Jonathan PapernickFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Story PlantPublisher The Story Plant