The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
A Novel
Written by Shani Boianjiu

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Hogarth
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95597-5 (0-307-95597-4)

A 2013 Sami Rohr Prize Finalist

Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, passing notes to each other to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. When they are conscripted into the army, their lives change in... Read more >

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Stories
Written by Nathan Englander

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-94960-8 (0-307-94960-5)

Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2013
A New York Times Notable Book
An NPR Best Book of 2012

These eight powerful stories, dazzling in their display of language and imagination, show a celebrated short-story writer and novelist grappling with the great questions of modern life.

From the title story, a provocative portrait of two marriages inspired... Read more >

Russ & Daughters
Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Written by Mark Russ Federman
Foreword by Calvin Trillin

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4294-2 (0-8052-4294-5)

The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal herring, and silken chopped liver” (The New York Times... Read more >

The Alchemy of Air
A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
Written by Thomas Hager

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-35179-1 (0-307-35179-3)

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Vera Gran-The Accused

Written by Agata Tuszynska

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26912-6 (0-307-26912-4)

The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary sensual contralto; Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw ghetto (spring 1941-summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: Władysław Szpilman, made famous by Roman... Read more >