Spiró, György
Summary: A literary sensation in Hungary now available in English, György Spiró's masterwork is at once a gripping page-turner, a magiterial historical epic, and a riotous road novel. Set in the tumultuous first century A.D., Captivity recounts the adventures of Uri, a bookish, hapless young Roman Jew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPIGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: Kidnapped from their parents during the Portuguese Inquisition and sent to work as slaves at a monastery in Brazil, two Jewish sisters attempt to make their way back to Europe to find their parents, but instead one becomes part of a group founding the first Jewish settlement in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRERice, Anne
Summary: Depicts the life story of Azriel a ghost for over 2,500 years who desperately searches to escape the dark forces that keep him an unrestful spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICGordon, Cambria
Summary: Isabel Perez is a sixteen-year-old who dreams of writing poetry, love, and being with the young nobleman Diego Altamirano; but in Trujillo, Spain in 1481 such a love is forbidden by the boy's family because Isabel's families are conversos, new Christians,but in the privacy of their home they still practice Judaism--a secret that could destroy them all when the Inquisition reaches Trujillo and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GORThomas, M. J.
Summary: "The mysterious scroll transports the time-traveling trio back to Bethlehem where they quickly befriend a young David before he faces Goliath"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THOThomas, M. J.
Summary: Peter, nine, Mary, ten, and their dog, Hank, journey into biblical history to Babylon, where they meet Daniel and see Michael, the archangel, protect him in the lions' den.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THOCheuse, Alan.
Summary: When his father sends him to his uncle's South Carolina plantation, New York Jew Nathaniel Pereira has his first brush with the realities of slavery and becomes captivated by a beautiful slave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2011
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Summary: Peter, nine, Mary, ten, and their dog, Hank, journey into biblical history to the time of the battle of Jericho, where they meet Israelite spies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THOZusak, Markus
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION TARSem-Sandberg, Steve
Summary: Follows the World War II tale of Jewish ghetto director Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, who in an ambitious effort to render the ghetto an invaluable industrial complex makes compromises that have extraordinary consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEMJenoff, Pam
Summary: "Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation...Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village...Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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Summary: Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Iturbe 2017Belfoure, Charles
Summary: Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn't really believe in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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Summary: Seven-year-old Miriam places her baby brother's basket in the Nile River, watches the Pharoah's daughter draw him out and name him Moses, and ponders a vision of other water parting. Includes note on the biblical story on which this is based.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Yolen 2020Belfoure, Charles
Summary: In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money -- and maybe get him killed. But if he's clever enough, he'll avoid any trouble. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2013
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Summary: "Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUKThoene, Bodie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOConnolly, Rebecca
Summary: "Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. ... Young schoolteacher Andrée Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. Andrée is not Jewish, but she feels a maternal connection to her students, who are living in constant fear, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CONIturbe, Antonio
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC ITULawton, Wendy.
Summary: The daughter of a German and a Jew, Anna's dreams of becoming a famous ballerina are crushed by increasing Nazi persecution, but she is sustained, even while in a Nazi work camp, by her strong Christian faith and the conviction that she will one day be reunited with her mother and sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Publishers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LAWZusak, Markus.
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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Summary: "In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016