Time’s Echo by Jeremy Eichler
The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past In 1785, when the...
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The Prophet of the Andes by Graciela Mochkofsky
An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Christians to Judaism, sparking a pilgrimage from the Andes to Israel and inspiring a wave...
A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
A dazzling debut novel—set in early 1970’s New York and rural India—the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of the Second World War, and a searing examination...
More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman
More Than I Love My Life is the story of three strong women: Vera, age ninety; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at thirty-nine is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of...
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb
Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force–irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety,...
The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between by Michael Dobbs
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany. In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy...
The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer
In 1940, Varian Fry traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to help escape within a few weeks. Instead, he stayed more than a...
Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel by Alon Shaya
Alon Shaya’s is no ordinary cookbook. It is a memoir of a culinary sensibility that begins in Israel and wends its way from the U.S.A. (Philadelphia) to Italy (Milan and Bergamo), back to Israel...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
The first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the...
Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander
The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges–a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on...
