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The Book of Anna by Joy Ladin

The Book of Anna by Joy Ladin

THE BOOK OF ANNA is written in the voice of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and now lives in 1950s Prague answering phones for the...

The Wel­come Chair by Rose­mary Wells

The Wel­come Chair by Rose­mary Wells

Illus­tra­tor: Jer­ry Pinkney Based in part on a 100-year-old family journal, Rosemary Wells brings to life a story that the diary’s fragile pages tell. It’s the story of a wooden rocking chair handmade in...

Alma Press­es Play by Tina Cane

Alma Press­es Play by Tina Cane

A lyrical novel-in-verse that takes us through the journey of coming of age in New York during the 80s. Alma’s life is a series of halfways: She’s half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the...

Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr

Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr

From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece—forcing the ultimate showdown between...

Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer

Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer

What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity? Can we envision a world that sees impossible creatures? In 1958, amongst the children born with spina...

When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler

When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler

Three friends. One memory.Vienna. 1936. Three young friends—Leo, Elsa, and Max—spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped...

The Pages by Hugo Hamil­ton

The Pages by Hugo Hamil­ton

One old copy of the novel Rebellion sits in Lena Knecht’s tote bag, about to accompany her on a journey from New York to Berlin in search of a clue to the hand-drawn map...