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Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
2) Hollowthorn
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When a demon from Jewish lore threatens the Tree of Life, a source of untold power and immortality, Anna Ballinkay and Colin Pierce enter the Otherworld to stop him, where they discover that the true danger is closer than they think.
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2023.
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Embarking on a journey to discover the identity of her father, Clara, piecing together the past, discovers a love story dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism, revealing how her father, a Jewish architect, used his talent at making exquisite porcelain figures to stay alive.
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Saralee Siegel book volume 4
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Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Behrman House
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[2023]
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English
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Ten-year-old Saralee Siegal accidentally summons Haman with her hamantaschen recipe, which creates trouble at Siegel House Restaurant.
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Apples & Honey Press
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[2023]
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English
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Eating magical food to transform in cats enables fourth-grader Chaya Ann Tober and her brother Danny to go on nighttime adventures where they prowl their neighborhood, prevent a tragic cat-astrophe, and see each other in a completely new light.
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Once upon the East End novel volume 1
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Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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To save her business in 1832 London, heiress Isabelle Lira must quickly marry a powerful ally outside of her rivals' sphere of influence, and offers synagogue custodian Aaron Ellenberg money for a new life if he vets her suitors, only to find herself falling for this man she cannot have.
10) Kissing kosher
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Avital Cohen isn't wearing underpants--woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photography dreams and her love life. It's all she can do to manage her family's kosher bakery, Best Babka in Brooklyn, without collapsing. She needs hired help. And distractingly handsome Ethan Lippmann seems the perfect fit. Except Ethan isn't there to work--he's undercover, at the behest of his ironfisted grandfather. Though Lippmann's...
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In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
12) The blood years
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Balzer + Bray
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2023.
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English
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Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now, seven years later, being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long considered a safe haven for...
13) The Jake show
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2023]
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English
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For TV-obsessed Jake Lightman, his parents' divorce is like his favorite show getting canceled: The worst. Now he's stuck between playing the role of 'Yaakov' for his mother and 'Jacob' for his father. On Jake's first day at a new school, Caleb and Tehilla barrel into his life. Suddenly, he has two friends who seem to like the real Jake. And when they invite him to Camp Gershoni for the summer, Jake knows he has to go--even if his parents won't let...
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