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...
Category: New Books
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...
Echoes of Elvis: A Journey Through Nostalgia and Rebellion
Thoughts on “All Shook Up” by Enid Langbert How is it possible that a beautiful novel that was written in the first person point of view of a 14-year-old girl and is set in...
On Being Jewish Now: Reflections from Authors and Advocates by Zibby Owens
An intimate and hopeful collection of meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today’s authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how life has changed since the attacks on...
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
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...
Confessions of a Female Rabbi by Rabbi Rebecca Keren Jablonski
Relevant Religion in an On-Demand World One of NYC’s most sought-after female rabbis shares the key to keeping religion relevant in an on demand world in this tell-all guide Believe it or not, all...
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....
Stories My Father Told Me by Dvora Treisman
From Warsaw, Moscow, Algeria, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic These are stories from far off places, in far off and very different times, stories of everyday people doing everyday things. With his brilliant memory and...
Final Verdict: The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century by Tobias Buck
The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger...
