This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda
A Novel of World War II In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he’s forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France―a girl. He thought she...
Category: New Books
Journey to Your Ultimate Self by Rabbi Shmuel Reichman
An Inspiring Gateway into Deeper Jewish Thought through the Lens of the Weekly Parashah Everyone will agree that a story needs an ending; unless a story goes somewhere, it’s pointless. The purpose of a...
American Princess Warrior by Simone Elkeles
American Princess Amy is off to boot camp!Guess who’s jetting off to the Holy Land this summer! Yes, it’s me—Amy Nelson-Barak. I’ve volunteered for ten days of military training in Israel with my friends....
Jewish Girls Gone Wild: A Memoir of Skokie, Scottsdale & the Seventies by Linda Pressman
In 1973, Linda Pressman’s Holocaust Survivor parents pack up their family of seven daughters and move cross country, from idyllic Skokie, Illinois, to the wild west – Scottsdale, Arizona – in a time of...
The Pessimists by Bethany Ball
From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist Bethany Ball comes a biting and darkly funny new novel that follows a set of privileged, jaded Connecticut suburbanites whose cozy, seemingly picture-perfect, lives begin to...
Jerusalem’s Doctor of the Poor by Simon Majaro
When Simon Majaro’s father reached the age of 90, after 60 years of devoted medical care of his mixed constituency of Jews, Arabs and Christians, the Municipality of Jerusalem awarded him the title ‘Dr....
When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers by Ken Krimstein
From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII. When I Grow Up is New Yorker...
The Prison Minyan by Jonathan Stone
Welcome to America’s only Jewish prison . . . rugelach, blintzes, and a quest for vengeance from the highest tier of the US government The scene is Otisville Prison, upstate New York. A crew...
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this electrifying romance from the author of The Ex Talk. Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by...
Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie
The overdue restoration of Catherine Dior’s extraordinary life, from her brother’s muse to Holocaust survivor When the French designer Christian Dior presented his first collection in Paris in 1947, he changed fashion forever. Dior’s...
