Bone Weaver by Aden Polydoros
From the author of The City Beautiful comes a haunting fantasy following Toma, adopted daughter of the benevolent undead, making her way across a civil war-torn continent to save her younger sister as she...
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A Synagogue Just Like Home by Alice Blumenthal McGinty
Illustrator: Laurel Molk A new rabbi’s efforts to fix up his aging synagogue are a labor of love—and a comedy of errors—until his congregants fondly pool their talents in this lighthearted celebration of community....
The Boston Chocolate Party by Tami Lehman-Wilzig, Deborah R. Prinz
Joshua Mendes misses his best friend Isaac, who has moved to Boston. Joshua’s Papa is importing chocolate beans to the American Colonies, showing café owners how to make hot chocolate now that the tea...
The Village Idiot by Steve Stern
A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim Soutine Steve Stern’s astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid...
The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger
Translation and introduction: Joshua Cohen Written in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois...
Onto Center Stage: The Biblical Woman by Sara Reguer
The Biblical narrative is usually very terse and cryptic. Over the millennia, Jewish scholars often painted a patriarchal picture with women “in their place.” Yes, ancient Middle Eastern society was patriarchal, but matriarchs had...
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each...
Honey and Me by Meira Drazin
Milla and Honey have been best friends since forever. Milla envies Honey’s confidence, her charisma, and her big, chaotic family―especially when they provide a welcome escape from Milla’s own small family and quiet house....
Don’t Worry, Just Cook Bonnie Stern and Anna Rupert
Delicious, Timeless Recipes for Comfort and Connection “I tell you not to worry because I’ve done all the worrying for you!” Bonnie Stern, beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author, wants nothing more than for...
Early Jewish Cookbooks by András Koerner
Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History The seven essays in this volume focus such previously unexplored subjects as the world’s first cookbook printed in Hebrew letters, published in 1854, and a wonderful 19th-century Jewish...
