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For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of two families brought together to celebrate an unexpected marriage, twelve years after a devastating tragedy upended...
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout Illustrator: Sammy Savos A heartrending graphic memoir about a young Jewish girl’s fight for survival in Nazi...
Translator: Joan Seliger Sidney In the first book of her poetry to appear in English, acclaimed French-Jewish poet, translator, and translation-theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses time and extends hospitality to exiled poets and peoples in...
Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom The Place of All Possibility is a paradigm-shifting work that reframes the whole of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity. Drawing from the deep well of Jewish...
Adventures in Loss, Cancer and Other Inconveniences A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir of losing both parents to cancer and the daring choices Gila Pfeffer made to avoid the same early demise By the...
An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so...
Two vampire brothers must set aside their differences to solve a series of murders in this humorous and delightfully spooky novel for young readers. For fans of Too Bright to See. Adam and Victor...
“Jews are no longer safe in Iraq. When are you going to get it through your thick head?” It’s 1951, and twelve-year-old Salman Shasha is happy with his life in Baghdad. But trouble is...
Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in...
See the Holocaust through the Eyes of Children. Stefan and Marion Hess’s happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a...