Brand-New Bubbe by Sarah Aronson
Illustrator: Ariel Landy Jillian isn’t so sure she needs a third grandma now that her stepdad is joining the family, but can her brand-new Bubbe win her over? When Jillian joins Bubbe for some...
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What Makes an Apple? by Amos Oz with Shira Hadad
Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures Translator: Jessica Cohen Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz In the last years of his life, the writer...
Come to This Court and Cry by Linda Kinstler
How the Holocaust Ends In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the...
The Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman
1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to...
Raising Raffi: The First Five Years by Keith Gessen
An unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s life “I was not prepared to be a father—this much I knew.” Keith Gessen was nearing...
Unmatched by Sarah Lavane
An Orthodox Jewish woman’s mystifying journey to find marriage and meaning With her sometimes funny, always intimate, uncensored memoir, Sarah Lavane puts a human face on the challenges of being “unmatched” in a “matched”...
Hanukkah Veronica: The Mitzvah Fairy by Wendy Brant, Julie Anne Cooper
Co-Authors Wendy Brant and Julie Anne Cooper, and Illustrator Giovanni Lombardi Launch Bonta Friends, A New Children’s Book Series and Online Retail Store The first book and doll in the series, Hanukkah Veronica: The...
On Repentance And Repair by Danya Ruttenberg
Making Amends in an Unapologetic World A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture’s most painful and unresolved issues American culture focuses on letting go...
José and the Pirate Captain Toledano by Arnon Z. Shorr, Joshua M. Edelglass
Set in the shadows of the Spanish Inquisition, this is the coming-of-age story of José Alfaro, a young refugee who forms a powerful bond with the mysterious Pirate Captain Toledano. It’s also a dynamic...
The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena
Translator: Frank Wynne In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that “has stifled [him] since [he] was born”, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring...
