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Storm by Donna Jo Napoli

The Book of Life podcast: STORM on Noah’s Ark

The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features an interview with prolific, award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli about her new teen/adult crossover novel STORM, which takes place...

Childhood by Jona Oberski

Childhood by Jona Oberski

The book at Amazon Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, Childhood is a searing story of the Holocaust that no reader will soon forget. As five-year-old...

Women in Judaism

Call for Book Reviewers for Women in Judaism

Women in Judaism: a multidisciplinary journal is seeking book reviewers for its 2015 issues About the Journal: Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal is published exclusively on the Internet as a forum for scholarly...

Latke the Lucky Dog

AJL Recommends Hanukkah Books for Children

Any of these titles would make excellent Hanukkah gifts, and many work well in holiday storytime programs too. Happy Hanukkah and Happy Reading!      NEW HANUKKAH TITLES                ...