Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
And the Mibby goes to… Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. This book was probably a surprise nomination to a lot of people because it’s a really funny book. Funny books...
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The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor
On June 19 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for conspiring to commit espionage. The day Ethel was first arrested in 1950, she left her two young sons with a neighbor and never...
Where You Go, I Go: The Astonishing Life of Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, Holocaust Survivor and 92-year-old Full-Time Dentist by Karen McCartney
You will never forget these boys. This is the story of two brothers clinging together for survival after their family perished in the wrath of the Third Reich. Younger brother Sam clings to Jacob...
Cleveland: The Mandel JCC Festival of Jewish Books & Authors
The Mandel JCC Festival of Jewish Books & Authors is presented in partnership with the Cuyahoga County Public Library and with support from the Eugenia and Henry Green Family Foundation. 16 Entertaining & Fascinating...
Paleo Kosher: 18 Easy Diet Cooking Recipes for Fast Weight Loss, Energy Boosting, and Better Health by Alf Forrman
Do you follow the kosher laws but would also like to incorporate the principles of the Paleo diet? Are you looking for meals that are as delicious as they are healthy? Then this book...
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka by Lev Golinkin
A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. In the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year...
No Mission is Impossible by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal
In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal return with the intensely absorbing, fast-paced story of thirty of the boldest missions of the Israeli Special Forces. Bar-Zohar and Mishal depict in electrifying...
Okay, So Look: A Humorous Retelling of the Book of Genesis by Micah Edwards
Genesis… retold for those of us who could never make it past all those “begats.” The Book of Genesis has some truly great stories, and is the foundation of many themes that are used...
Kvetching and Shpritzing: Jewish Humor in American Popular Culture by Joseph Dorinson
Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of humor–from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen–have studied the essence of the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism...
The Sea Beach Line by Ben Nadler
After being expelled from Oberlin for hallucinogenic drug use, Izzy Edel seeks out his estranged father—a Polish Jew turned Israeli soldier turned New York street vendor named Alojzy who is reported to be missing,...
