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Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber

Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber

From the author of Reinhardt’s Garden and Saint Sebastian’s Abyss comes a breathless new novel of delirious obsession. Bereft after the death of his ailing wife, a retired professor has resumed his life’s work—a...

The Beech Forest by Marlis Wes­sel­er

The Beech Forest by Marlis Wes­sel­er

Lisa Braun struggles to understand both her own life and the tragic historic events that haunt her in this engaging new novel written in Marlis Wesseler’s characteristically understated, confiding prose. The novel begins with...

Dear Eliza by Andrea J. Stein

Dear Eliza by Andrea J. Stein

Ten years after her mother’s death, Eliza Levinger never imagined she’d hear from her again. But then The Letter arrived. Eliza’s world broke apart when she was sixteen and her mom died of cancer....

Street Cor­ner Dreams by Flo­rence Kraut

Street Cor­ner Dreams by Flo­rence Kraut

A suspenseful family saga, love story, and gangster tale, wrapped into one great book club read . . . Just before WWI, Golda comes to America yearning for independence, but she tosses aside her...

We Used to Dream of Freedom by Sam Chaiton

We Used to Dream of Freedom by Sam Chaiton

A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust, and the Stories We Don’t Tell A child of Holocaust survivors grapples with his parents’ untold stories and their profound effect on the course of his extraordinary life....