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Lloyd, Toby

Summary: A close-knit Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch. Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both intellectually gifted and deeply unconventional, the Rosenthals believe in the literal truth of the Old Testament and in the presence of God (and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024

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Freethy, Sarah

Summary: "Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning is quickly dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism. Max is arrested and sent...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Berest, Anne

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023

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Lowe, Mari

Summary: Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOW

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC LOW

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LOW

Brodesser-Akner, Taffy

1 hold on 9 copies

Summary: "In 1983, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of trying to move on with their lives and resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream, coming to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Ridker, Andrew

Summary: "A hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly-perfect family in an era of waning American optimism, from the acclaimed author of The Altruists. The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a successful physician with his own cardiology practice. His wife, Deb, is a pillar of the community...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RID

Apelfeld, Aharon

Summary: "A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy-and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APE

Rossner, Rena

Summary: "Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Rosner, Jennifer

Summary: "From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROS

Berliner, Felicia

Summary: "An arranged marriage is expected for Raizl, but she's not like the other young women in her Hasidic sect in Brooklyn. Raizl has a college scholarship to study accounting, a part-time job that supports her family, and a hidden computer making it all possible. That's where she finds the porn, through the slippery slope of an innocent Google search. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022

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Hiranandani, Veera

Summary: Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIR

Solomons, 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

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Solomons 2018

Row, Jess

Summary: Demanding that her mother, father, and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROW

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