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The Blumkin Project by Chris­t­ian Salmon

The Blumkin Project by Chris­t­ian Salmon

A Bio­graph­i­cal Novel Translator: William Rodar­mor This page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution, from Odessa to Moscow, Istanbul, and beyond. Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had...

A Castle in Brooklyn by Shirley Russak Wachtel

A Castle in Brooklyn by Shirley Russak Wachtel

Spanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendship, and the dream of finding home. 1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances....

An Amateur Performance by Lev Levanda

An Amateur Performance by Lev Levanda

Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy Editor: Brian HorowitzTranslator: Hugh McLeanPreface: William Craft Brumfield Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda’s brilliant...

The Most Like­ly Club by Elyssa Fried­land

The Most Like­ly Club by Elyssa Fried­land

A hilarious, heartfelt story about four lifelong friends determined to change their lives, come hell (terrible bosses, ex-husbands living next door) or high water (laundry…so much laundry) from the acclaimed author of Last Summer...

Attack of the Black Rectangles by A. S. King

Attack of the Black Rectangles by A. S. King

Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write. When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some...