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Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

Howard Rosenbaum is a Jewish powerhouse in Hollywood with an English wife, Anne, whom he met at Columbia University, where they both earned PhDs in literature. Now they live among pathologically narcissistic people with an utter disdain for the written word. Assured, clever, witty and tender, You Or Someone Like You is a novel about reading and books, tribes and identity - whether chosen or inherited - and how we understand or translate our world...

Ezekiel Johnson feels like he is losing his family-one by one. It is the 1820s, and years earlier, Ezekiel had fled his abusive stepfather and his loving, yet browbeaten mother-promising he would never return. He vowed that when he had a family they would be bound together in freedom, happiness, and love. But now this strange new Mormon religion seems to have captured the hearts of his wife and children-in spite of the rumors that surround it and...

"The sweeping story of the Perlmutter family opens with the moment when Lev, the assimilated, cultured German Jewish father at the center of this saga, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his beautiful gentile wife Josephine and their children Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev's and Josephine's viewpoints, Part I focuses on Lev's life-changing experiences on the Eastern Front, where he becomes involved with a local Jewish woman in the...

Presents the story of how the Protestant English King Charles I, and his young, French, Catholic wife, Henrietta, found unexpected love and helped reign over an era of peace and prosperity until a war with Puritan Scotland risked their lives.