Food You Want: For the Life You Crave by Nealy Fischer
Whether you’re a parent feeding family of 6 or cooking for 1 or 2, you’re probably busy–really busy–juggling all of life’s obligations. And you probably just want to sit down for a meal of...
Category: New Books
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
Translator: Frances Frenaye The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale―a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness―proceeds, the narrator’s...
To the Edge of Sorrow by Aharon Appelfeld
From “fiction’s foremost chronicler of the Holocaust” (Philip Roth), here is a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II. Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and...
How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives by Françoise S. Ouzan
Drawing on testimonies, memoirs, and personal interviews of Holocaust survivors, Françoise S. Ouzan reveals how the experience of Nazi persecution impacted their personal reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration into a free society. She sheds light...
The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
An exquisitely written, poignant family saga that illuminates the great divide, the gulf that separates the rich and poor, black and white, Protestant and Jew. Spanning three generations, The Guest Book deftly examines the life and...
Red Menace by Lois Ruby
If thirteen-year-old Marty Rafner had his way, he’d spend the summer of 1953 warming the bench for his baseball team, listening to Yankees games on the radio, and avoiding preparations for his bar mitzvah....
Hebrew Root Dictionary: (Bible4Community) by Nahorai Kotkin
The Hebrew Root Dictionary is the first dictionary of the Bible in English based entirely on traditional Hebrew sources. These references are culled from the Classical, Medieval, and Modern eras, spanning 3300 years of...
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport by Deborah Hopkinson
Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth’s experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks....
Pillars of Salt: Israelis in Berlin and Toronto by Lianne Merkur
In Pillars of Salt, Lianne Merkur offers an account of early 21st century immigration as experienced by Israelis in Berlin and Toronto. Commonly portrayed as contrary to the territorial emphasis of national integrity, these...
24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week by Tiffany Shlain
Internet pioneer and renowned filmmaker Tiffany Shlain takes us on a provocative and entertaining journey through time and technology, introducing a strategy for living in our 24/7 world: turning off all screens for twenty-four...
