Dribbling a Basketball on the Road to Damascus by Charley Rosen
A coming-of-age novel that takes us from a very tall boy’s discovery of his love of basketball to a young man who engages in point-shaving while a college player on his way to NBA...
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Unfit by Ariana Harwicz
Translated by Jessie Mendez Sayer A bracing novel that asks how far we would go for the ones we love―and what we would do to destroy the ones we hate Lisa has lost custody...
JewGirl: A Memoir on Being and Belonging by Marcie Maxfield
JewGirlis a thought-provoking work of nonfiction that captures what it means to be Jewish and female at a time when antisemitism is rising and women’s rights are under siege. Blending personal narrative with cultural...
Hand in Hand by Rashel Veprinski
Translators: Anita Norich and Ellen Cassedy New York, 1918. One fateful winter night, Miriam Eidelberg finds herself strolling across the Williamsburg Bridge with her literary hero, the man whose poems she knows by heart....
Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture by Samantha Ellis
A life-affirming memoir about resilience, language, and the healing power of our ancestor’s music, stories, and recipes. Samantha’s mother tongue is dying out. The daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by...
Claudia Said Sí!: The Story of Mexico’s First Woman President by Deborah Bodin Cohen, Kerry Olitzky
Illustrator: Carlos Vélez Aguilera From social justice activist to Nobel-winning scientist to the first woman (and first Jewish!) president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum faces each new challenge by saying, “sí!”, “yes, I can.” Just...
Scattergood by H.M. Bouwman
In rural Iowa in 1941, twelve-year-old Peggy’s quiet life is turned upside down by refugee arrivals, first love, and a heartbreaking diagnosis. Growing up a farm girl, Peggy’s life has never been particularly exciting....
The Boy in the Back: A True Story of Survival in Auschwitz and Mauthausen by Fern Lebo
Forward by Jan Blumenstein Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II On his 16th birthday, June 5, 1944, Jan Blumenstein and his family are driven like livestock to the cattle cars outside of town. Today,...
Stumbling Blocks by Jennifer Krebs
Stumbling Blocks, a second-generation Holocaust memoir, tells Jennifer’s and Paul’s stories. Paul, Jennifer’s father, was born in Germany in 1928. At the age of ten, just after Kristallnacht, his parents sent him and his...
Skylark by Paula McLain
The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below—where a woman’s quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor’s dangerous mission during the German occupation in...
