The Last Interview by Eshkol Nevo
A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website editor. At first, they stick to the standard fare: Did you always know you would be a writer?...
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Maurice and His Dictionary by Cary Fagan
Illustrator: Enzo Lord Mariano This is the story of one refugee family’s harrowing journey, based on author Cary Fagan’s own family history. The graphic novel follows a young Jewish boy, Maurice, and his family...
Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics by Tom Scioli
This sweeping, full-color comic book biography tells the complete life story of Jack Kirby, co-creator of some of the most enduring superheroes and villains of the twentieth century for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and...
In the Hour of Fate and Danger by Ferenc Andai
Translators: Marietta Morry, Lynda Muir Ferenc Andai is one of approximately 6,000 Jewish Hungarian men conscripted to work as forced labourers in the copper mines of Bor, Serbia, between 1943 and 1944. Subject to...
Chance: Escape from the Holocaust by Uri Shulevitz
From a beloved voice in children’s literature comes this landmark memoir of hope amid harrowing times and an engaging and unusual Holocaust story. With backlist sales of over 2.3 million copies, Uri Shulevitz, one...
Mommy, Can You Stop the Rain? by Rona Milch Novick, PhD
Illustrator: Anna Kubaszewska Mommy, can you stop the rain? Daddy, can you shush the thunder? Can grown-ups take away a scary storm? No, says Mommy, I cannot stop the rain. No, says Daddy, I...
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! by Sarah Kapit
In this perfectly pitched novel-in-letters, autistic eleven-year-old Vivy Cohen won’t let anything stop her from playing baseball–not when she has a major-league star as her pen pal. Vivy Cohen is determined. She’s had enough...
A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas by David Biespiel
Acclaimed poet and memoirist David Biespiel tells the story of the rise and fall of a Jewish boyhood in Texas, and his search for the answer to his life’s central riddle: Are we ever done leaving...
Marvin by Ian David Marsden
As only the second person in history to be awarded the PEGOT (Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), Marvin Hamlisch has quite an incredible story. This graphic novel adaptation of the biography of the renowned...
Balm in Gilead: A Story from the War by John L. Withers II
In May 1945, as World War II ended, an all-black U.S. Army truck company, including Lieutenant John L. Withers of Greensboro, North Carolina, rushed emergency supplies to an unknown German town. Long victims of...
