The Promise by Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams
Illustrator: Cinzia Battistel A garden is a prayer. It is also a promise. In a Moroccan village, a Jewish boy and a Muslim boy are best friends. Jacob and Hassan play together every day...
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Jewish Mindfulness for Kids by Blanca Sissa
Illustrator: Camila Carrossine The exercises in this book use everyday Jewish items to inspire mindfulness in children. Imagine you have a piece of fresh challah in one hand and a spoonful of hot chicken...
Big Bad Wolf’s Yom Kippur by David Sherrin
Illustrator: Martín Morón In this fractured fairy tale mash-up that explains the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Bid Bad Wolf struggles to understand whether he has the capacity for change, and in the process...
Abraham: The Story of a Journey by Jonathan Grossman
A fascinating look at Abraham, the founder of the Israelite nation, and largely considered the originator of the revolutionary religious philosophy of ethical monotheism. In this work, Jonathan Grossman’s unveils layers of complexity in...
I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast
Ancient Greeks, modern seers, Freud, Jung, neurologists, poets, artists, shamans―humanity has never ceased trying to decipher one of the strangest unexplained phenomena we all experience: dreaming. Now, in her new book, Roz Chast illustrates...
My What If Year: A Memoir by Alisha Fernandez Miranda
An exuberant, hilarious memoir about a woman who pauses her successful career for a year and explores the “What If” jobs of her dreams. On the cusp of turning forty, Alisha Fernandez Miranda has...
The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious by Ron Turker
What happens when you drop an agnostic Jewish surgeon in a century-old Catholic hospital, where the doctor meets dogma and falls for the CEO? A nun, for God’s sake. Dr. Martin Fischer, a white-coated...
What You Do To Me by Rochelle B. Weinstein
From the bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends comes a moving novel of two unfinished love stories and the music and lyrics that bring them together. Journalist Cecilia James is a...
Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare
In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill. Kel is...
Concentration by Arne Weingart
Suppose that a young Central European poet were to have been swept up into one of the World War II death camps. There were many such young women and men in the camps—the sheer...
