Publisher: Modern Library
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1995
ISBN-13: 9780679601593
ISBN-10: 0679601597

The contemporary writer provides insight into varied aspects of Jewish-American life.

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Publisher: Berkeley Prime Crime
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780425179499
ISBN-10: 0425179494

A former public defender, stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum is plunged back into a world of crime when her newborn son's babysitter, a lovely young Chasidic woman, mysteriously vanishes without a trace. By the author of Nursery Crimes.

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Publisher: W.W. Norton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780393048148
ISBN-10: 0393048144

A moving novel set in the Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, follows the uneasy movement of Batsheva--a newly widowed convert to the Jewish faith--as she and her five-year-old daughter, Ayala, unwittingly stir up trouble in the community.

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Publisher: Fawcett Crest
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/1995
ISBN-13: 9780449213445
ISBN-10: 0449213447

A baseball game between two different Jewish schools becomes the catalyst that starts a bitter rivalry between two boys and their fathers.

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Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1997
ISBN-13: 9780316340946
ISBN-10: 0316340944

An unlikely friendship between an eleven-year old Irish-Catholic boy and a lonely rabbi from Prague in 1947 Brooklyn has the two opening new windows of understanding with each other but still fighting the prejudices of the day.

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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780312290887
ISBN-10: 0312290888

A witty send-up of Pride and Prejudice set in a Florida retirement village follows a circle of retirees on a hilarious voyage of love and manners.

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780374276607
ISBN-10: 0374276609

Shoshanna struggles to overcome personal demons while working to repair family estrangements, while English professor Leah faces the pain of abandonment, and athlete Rachel watches her carefully constructed world fall apart.

Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780375508547
ISBN-10: 0375508546

In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, Miguel Lienzo, a Portuguese-Jewish trader who has lost everything in the sugar market and is desperate to recover his fortune, enters into a partnership with seductive Geertruid Damhouder to introduce coffee to the city and must confront betrayal, greed, and a ruthless adversary to succeed.

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Publisher: Doubleday
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/1992
ISBN-13: 9780385267922
ISBN-10: 0385267924

Five conversations between two people reconstruct the history of the dying Mani clan, describing the lives of six generations of its members from their emigration from Greece to Palestine in 1848 to the mid-1980s.

Publisher: Back Bay Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/15/1992
ISBN-13: 9780316955133
ISBN-10: 0316955132

A young Jewish girl experiences love, pain, and disappointment in the struggle to become an actress.