Transit
Written by Anna Seghers
Afterword by Heinrich Boll
Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
Introduction by Peter Conrad
Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.95
Anna Seghers’s
Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.
Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German...
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Transit
Written by Anna Seghers
Afterword by Heinrich Boll
Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
Introduction by Peter Conrad
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.95
Anna Seghers’s
Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.
Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German...
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The World Without You
A Novel
Written by Joshua Henkin
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $15.00
It's July 4, 2005, and the Frankel family is descending upon their beloved summer home in the Berkshires. They have gathered to memorialize Leo, the youngest of the four siblings and an intrepid journalist killed on that day in 2004, while on assignment in Iraq. But Leo’s parents are adrift in...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Stories
Written by Nathan Englander
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $15.00
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 by Raymond Carver’s...
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I Am Forbidden
A Novel
Written by Anouk Markovits
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $14.00
A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular sect of Hasidic Jews, the Satmar.
In 1939, five-year-old Josef witnesses the murder of his family by the Romanian Iron Guard. He is taken in by a Gentile maid, who raises...
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The Wanting
A Novel
Written by Michael Lavigne
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $25.95
From the author of Not Me, this powerful novel about an Israeli father and his daughter brings to life a rich canvas of events and unexpected change in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
In the galvanizing opening of The Wanting, the celebrated Russian-born postmodern architect Roman Guttman is injured in a...
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The Wanting
A Novel
Written by Michael Lavigne
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $12.99
From the author of Not Me, this powerful novel about an Israeli father and his daughter brings to life a rich canvas of events and unexpected change in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
In the galvanizing opening of The Wanting, the celebrated Russian-born postmodern architect Roman Guttman is injured in a...
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The Tin Horse
A Novel
Written by Janice Steinberg
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $26.00
In the stunning tradition of Lisa See, Maeve Binchy, and Alice Hoffman, The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigrant experience. It has been more than sixty years since Elaine...
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The Tin Horse
A Novel
Written by Janice Steinberg
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $12.99
In the stunning tradition of Lisa See, Maeve Binchy, and Alice Hoffman, The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigrant experience. It has been more than sixty years since Elaine...
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The Tin Horse
A Novel
Written by Janice Steinberg
Read by Kate McGregor-Stewart
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $45.00
In the stunning tradition of Lisa See, Maeve Binchy, and Alice Hoffman, The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigrant experience. It has been more than sixty years since Elaine...
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The Tin Horse
A Novel
Written by Janice Steinberg
Read by Kate McGregor-Stewart
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $22.50
In the stunning tradition of Lisa See, Maeve Binchy, and Alice Hoffman, The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigrant experience. It has been more than sixty years since Elaine...
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Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance
Written by Sholem Aleichem and Hannah Berman
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $10.00
Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing.The first work of Sholom Aleichem’s to be translated into English—this long out-of-print translation is the only one ever done under Aleichem’s personal...
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The Jewish War
Written by Tova Reich
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2012
Price: $14.99
It is sometime in the near future, and the Israeli Army is about to descend upon a band of militant settlers who have proclaimed the secessionist Kingdom of Judea and Samaria. So begins this timely and brilliantly satiric novel—an all-too-real story of a modern-day Masada.
The Jewish War is most particularly the...
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The Loves of Judith
A Novel
Written by Meir Shalev
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $15.95
A woman with three loves and a son with three fathers: a universal story of passion and personal destiny by the award-winning author of A Pigeon and a Boy.
When the mysterious Judith arrives in a small agricultural village in Palestine in the 1930s, she attracts attention of three men: Moshe, a...
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The Loves of Judith
A Novel
Written by Meir Shalev
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $11.99
A woman with three loves and a son with three fathers: a universal story of passion and personal destiny by the award-winning author of A Pigeon and a Boy.
When the mysterious Judith arrives in a small agricultural village in Palestine in the 1930s, she attracts attention of three men: Moshe, a...
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Hostage
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $25.95
From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of
Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband—has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in...
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Hostage
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $13.99
From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of
Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband—has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in...
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Hostage
Written by Elie Wiesel
Read by Mark Bramhall
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $30.00
From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of
Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband—has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in...
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Hostage
Written by Elie Wiesel
Read by Mark Bramhall
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of
Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband—has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in...
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The Rise of David Levinsky
Written by Abraham Cahan
Introduction by Seth Lipsky
Format: eBook, 556 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
The Rise of David Levinsky, written by the legendary founder and editor of the
Jewish Daily Forward, is an early Jewish-American classic. According to the scholar Sam B. Girgus, "The novel is more than an important literary work and cultural document. It forms part of the traditional ritual of renewal of...
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The Things We Cherished
Written by Pam Jenoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $15.95
Charlotte Gold is shocked when her ex-fiancé Brian appears on the doorstep of her law office with a troubling case. Roger Dykmans, a wealthy financier and the brother of a Holocaust hero, has been accused of World War II-era war crimes, including the betrayal of his brother and the Jews he...
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The World Without You
A Novel
Written by Joshua Henkin
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $25.95
***National Jewish Book Awards 2012, Finalist***
JJ Greenberg Memorial Award for Fiction
From the author of the
New York Times Notable Book
Matrimony ["Beautiful . . . Brilliant."—Michael Cunningham], a moving, mesmerizing new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy.
It’s July 4, 2005, and the Frankel family is descending...
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The World Without You
A Novel
Written by Joshua Henkin
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $9.99
***National Jewish Book Awards 2012, Finalist***
JJ Greenberg Memorial Award for Fiction
From the author of the
New York Times Notable Book
Matrimony ["Beautiful . . . Brilliant."—Michael Cunningham], a moving, mesmerizing new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy.
It’s July 4, 2005, and the Frankel family is descending...
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Tzili
The Story of a Life
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Translated by Dalya Bilu
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $15.00
The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and meek, and she seems more at home with the animals in the field than with people. And so when her...
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Tzili
The Story of a Life
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Translated by Dalya Bilu
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and meek, and she seems more at home with the animals in the field than with people. And so when her...
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