Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris
Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he...
Category: New Books
Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist, and Teacher by Robert Krell
I have long described child Holocaust survivors as “elderly children.” We were forced to grow up overnight and lost pieces of childhood – of play and security, of comfort and predictability, of parental love...
How to Find Your Way in the Dark by Derek B. Miller
A Sheldon Horowitz Novel Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near...
Repentance for Life by Steven Pruzansky
Jews traditionally approach the Days of Awe with a combination of excitement and trepidation. It is the time for judgment and repentance but also a season of renewal. Repentance for Life explores eighteen different...
The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives: A Novel by Tim Darcy Ellis
It is 1522, The Spanish Netherlands, Juan Luis Vives, a renowned academic, has fled Spain to avoid the fires of the Inquisition, yet even here he is not safe. When England’s Sir Thomas More...
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve
In June 1943, after long years of hardship and persecution, thirteen-year-old Thomas Geve and his mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated upon arrival, he was left to fend for himself in the men’s camp...
Starlight Soup: A Sukkot Story by Elana Rubinstein
Illustrator: Jennifer Naalchigar In this second book about Saralee Siegel, the girl with the superpower smell, Saralee decides to create a new recipe for Sukkot–out of starlight, the secret ingredient that magically makes the...
The Faberge Secret by Charles Belfoure
St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home by Alexander Wolff
A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff A literary gem researched over a...
Hill of Beans: A Novel of War and Celluloid by Leslie Epstein
The film Casablanca opens with the words, “With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas.” Leslie Epstein’s Hill of...
