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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide | Now a Hulu limited series starring Joey King and Logan Lerman
Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.
“Love in the face of global...
Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.
“Love in the face of global...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dramatizing explosive events in London and Palestine in the years directly following World War II, The List follows the lives of Edith and Georg, Austrian refugees who are expecting their first baby in a world unfriendly to Jews. Anti-Semitism sweeps across the streets of London even as the world learns of the atrocities of the Holocaust. As Edith and Georg desperately search for surviving family members, they struggle to stay afloat in a world riddled...
6) No Vacancy
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
With the help of her Catholic friend, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl creates a provocative local tourist attraction to save her family's failing motel.
8) Evergreen
Author
Series
Werner family saga volume 1
Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
1987, c1978
Language
English
Description
A young Polish immigrant woman, in love with the scion of the German-Jewish banking family for which she works as a maid, marries fellow immigrant Joseph Friedman and lifts him from poverty to a real-estate fortune by one act of illicit passion.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set during WWII, and inspired by true events, The Sweetness is the story of two Jewish girls, cousins, living on separate continents--one a child in hiding, one a teen who dreams of escaping to Hollywood--who's strikingly different lives promise to converge.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty-first. As Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders. Excluded from the family bank, they forged their own distinct dynasty of daughters and nieces, mothers and aunts. They became influential hostesses and talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Shattered by revelations about the recently deceased mother who never entirely accepted her sexuality, a gay woman tracks down the men in her mother's hidden second life while coming to terms with new understandings about monogamy.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II, a new novel follows four individuals as they, 20 years after the war, find their lives interconnecting in Israel, in unexpected ways, and must each ask where and to whom they truly belong.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As usual, narrator Edoardo Ballerini's narration is eminently listenable...He captures the rich details of the era while engaging listeners with the story's relatable family dynamics." — AudioFile Magazine
Following up The One Man and The Saboteur, Andrew Gross's next historical thriller audiobook brings to life the dramatic birth of organized crime in 1930s New York City from the tale of one family.
After
Author
Publisher
HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Munich, after her father’s shop is burned to the ground by Nazis, Lilli Sternberg embarks on a relationship with Captain Marco Zeiller that could compromise them both and must decide how much she is willing to risk for the man she loves.
Author
Series
Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1553, fourteen-year-old Hannah Green, a young Jewish girl, flees to London to escape the Spanish Inquisition and catches the attention of Robert Dudley, who plans to use her talents for observation and second sight, as Hannah must choose between the intrigues of the English court and her secret life in the Jewish community, in the sequel to The Other Boleyn Girl.
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