The Clasp by Sloane Crosley
Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, the first novel from the writer whom David Sedaris calls “perfectly, relentlessly funny” Named a Hot Fall Read by Huffington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, The Chicago...
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The Tree in the Courtyard by Jeff Gottesfeld
Illustrated by Peter McCarty Told from the perspective of the tree outside Anne Frank’s window—and illustrated by a Caldecott Honor artist—this book introduces her story in a gentle and incredibly powerful way to a...
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet by Jeffrey Rosen
According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was “the Jewish Jefferson,” the greatest critic of what he called “the curse of bigness,” in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence....
The Wedding Sisters by Jamie Brenner
Meryl Becker is living a mother’s dream. The oldest of her three beautiful daughters, Meg, is engaged to a wonderful man from one of the country’s most prominent families. Of course, Meryl wants to...
Anna & Elizabeth by Sophie Cook
Set against Hungary’s rich peasant culture and rigid class divisions, spanning the years from 1880 to 1944, Anna & Elizabeth tells the story of two very different women and their unlikely friendship: Anna, a...
A Land Twice Promised: An Israeli Woman’s Quest for Peace by Noa Baum
Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the...
Why People Pray by Mordecai Schreiber
What is prayer? The question is rather straightforward, but with a bit of consideration you might find there is no easy answer. In Why People Pray, Rabbi Mordecai Schreiber examines this elusive nature of...
A Perfect Life by Eileen Pollack
A luminous and insightful novel that considers the moral complexities of scientific discovery and the sustaining nature of love. A young researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for...
Bellow’s People by David Mikics
A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize–winning author turned life into art. Saul Bellow was the most lauded American writer of the twentieth century―the winner of the Nobel Prize in...
The Land Is Full by Alon Tal
During the past sixty-eight years, Israel’s population has increased from one to eight million people. Such exponential growth has produced acute environmental and social crises in this tiny country. Alon Tal, one of Israel’s...
