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Blum, Isaac Drazin, Meira Englander, Nathan Englander, Nathan. Lowe, Mari Mann, Lonnie Ragen, NaomiDrazin, Meira
Summary: To Milla Bloom everything seems easy for her best friend, Honey Wine. Milla envies Honey's confidence, her charm, and her big, chaotic, loving family -- especially when they provide a welcome escape from Milla's small family and their silent house. The two friends do everything and go everywhere together. So when Honey joins Milla's school for sixth grade, why is it not as great as Milla...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: "The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGEnglander, Nathan.
Summary: Stories on being Jewish set in various parts of the world. In the title story, a sex-starved husband in New York is authorized by his rabbi to visit a prostitute, In This Way We Are Wise is on the nonchalant attitude of the inhabitants of Jerusalem to terrorism, while Reb Kringle is on a Jew who works as Santa Claus in a department store.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGBlum, Isaac
Summary: "Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much. He's got basketball to play, studies to avoid, and a supermarket full of delicious kosher snacks to eat. The people of Tregaron aren't happy that so many Orthodox Jews are moving in at once,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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Summary: "In this rich and compassionate novel, An Observant Wife, Naomi Ragen continues the love story between newly observant California-girl Leah and ultra-Orthodox widower Yaakov from An Unorthodox Match. From the joy of their wedding day surrounded by supportive friends and family, Yaakov and Leah are soon plunged into the complex reality of their new lives together as Yaakov leaves his beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGLowe, Mari
Summary: A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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Summary: "A coming-of-age graphic novel memoir about a young man who, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish community, realizes he's gay and struggles to reconcile his faith with who he is"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2024