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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story. Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death camp in Nazi Germany: Auschwitz. Livia, Magda, and Cibi have clung together, nearly died from starvation and overwork, and the brutal...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recalled to service in Israel after terrorists steal secrets about his past, art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon finds himself stalking an elusive master terrorist in a deadly cat-and-mouse game.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of People of the Book and March. With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Now, Brooks takes on one of literature's richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. Peeling away the myth to bring David...
7) Cross bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan volume 7
Language
English
Description
Receiving mysterious clues about a shooting murder in Montreal, Tempe Brennan wonders if the victim may have been a Jewish black market antiquities trader and embarks on a dangerous investigation in Israel.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A tale inspired by the tragic first-century massacre of hundreds of Jewish people at Masada presents the stories of a hated daughter, a baker's wife, a girl disguised as a warrior, and a medicine woman who keep doves and secrets while Roman soldiers draw near.
10) Eden: a novel
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Divorcing his wife under the resentful scrutiny of his promiscuous adolescent daughter, emotionally detached architect Mark pursues a relationship with his ex's best friend, who is desperate to have a baby, in a story set in a rural Israeli town.
11) The attack
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen working as a respected surgeon, finds his life torn apart in the wake of a terrorist bombing at a local restaurant as he deals with the discovery that his own wife was the suicide bomber responsible.
12) New dawn
Author
Series
House of Israel volume 3
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After a devastating world war, Jews have flocked to the Middle East with the dream of finding safety and security in a land they can call their own. But it is a dangerous time and many lives are affected by the peril.
13) Shoham's bangle
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Shoham's family emigrates from Iraq to Israel, Nana Aziza gives Shoham a way to remember where she came from"--
14) The liar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Nofar is so average that she's almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream, she is desperate for some kind of escape. One afternoon she tells a terrible lie, and suddenly everyone wants to talk to her: the press, her schoolmates, and even the boy upstairs. He is the only one who knows the truth, and he is demanding a price for his silence. Raymonde, an elderly immigrant whose best friend has just died, keeps her friend alive the only way...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of the "terrifically affecting" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Mornings in Jenin, a sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East."--
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