Slor, Zhanna
Summary: Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel. Anna was an infant when her family fled, but yearns to find her roots. When Anna is contacted by a stranger from their homeland and then disappears, Masha is called home to Milwaukee to find her, and where the search leads changes the family forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOLavigne, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAVBraff, Joshua
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRALipman, Elinor
Summary: "In a delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '69 had dedicated its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LIPWeiner, Jennifer.
Summary: Cannie Shapiro is about to find out it's not easy to hide your past, especially when it's been in print. Now anonymously writing science fiction, seven pounds lighter and enoying life as a soccer mom and doctor's wife, Cannie must deal with the consequences when her daughter Joy stumbles onto her first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEIMurphy, Louise
Summary: A retelling of the classic fairy tale, set in Nazi-occupied Poland, follows two Jewish children, left by their father and stepmother to seek refuge in a dense forest, as they wander the woods until being taken in by Magda, an eccentric old woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURSegal, Francesca
Summary: As he prepares for his wedding to Rachel Gilbert, the girl he has been with for twelve years, Adam Newman begins to question everything when Rachel's fiercely independent and beautiful young cousin moves home from New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voice / Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEGBall, Bethany
Summary: "From a remarkable new voice in fiction, Bethany Ball, comes a transporting debut; a hilarious multigenerational family saga set in Israel, New York, and Los Angeles that explores the secrets and gossip-filled lives of a kibbutz community near Jerusalem. Meet Marc Solomon, an Israeli ex-Navy commando now living in L.A., who is falsely accused of money laundering through his asset management...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALLoigman, Lynda Cohen
Summary: "Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night; but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear and their once deep friendship begins to unravel. No one knows why, and no one can stop it. One misguided choice; one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOILipman, Elinor
Summary: "Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high-school yearbook she inherits from her mother. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '69 had dedicated its yearbook, and she, in turn, went on to attend every reunion. Each year, she scribbled notes and observations after each one -- not always charitably -- and noted who overstepped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LIPBank, Melissa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BANHorn, Dara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORSinger, Isaac Bashevis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1972
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINMargolis, Sue.
Summary: Tallulah's grandmother, Nana Ida, wants her granddaughter to have a big Jewish wedding although Tallulah and her fiancé would prefer a small wedding. After months of planning the groom doesn't show up. So Nana Ida gets busy with matchmaking and Tallulah discovers that happiness doesn't always come in the form of the perfect doctor and that real love doesn't require a catered affair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARPotok, Chaim.
Summary: A Jewish girl in 1930s New York looks past her parents' idealism in search of something to comfort her as she observes discord and disunity everywhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTFeldman, Stephanie
Summary: When she discovers her grandfather's notebook, which is filled with stories of a miracle worker named the White Rebbe in league with the mysterious Angel of Losses, Marjorie embarks on a journey into the past to unlock the secrets he kept.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELKellerman, Faye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M KELGilmore, Jennifer.
Summary: Caught up in such challenges as a new college year, adolescence, and extreme religious beliefs, the Goldstein family of 1979 Washington, D.C., is upended by Dennis Goldstein's government job in the shifting political landscape of the Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILLoigman, Lynda Cohen
Summary: "Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night; but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear and their once deep friendship begins to unravel"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LOISolomons, Natasha
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I. Vienna, 1911. Twenty-one-year-old Greta Goldbaum has always hungered after what's forbidden: secret university lectures, unseemly trumpet lessons, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018