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Language
English
Description
"A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website. At first, they stick to the standard fare: Did you always know you would be a writer? How autobiographical are your books? Have you written any stories you would never publish? Usually his answers in these situations are measured, calculated, cautious. But this time, when his heart is about to break and his life is about to crumble, he finds he cannot tell anything but...
2) Love
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An incendiary and stylish debut from a young literary provocateur Love is a fever dream of a novella about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification and real love. Startlingly intimate and lyrically deft, Maayan Eitan's debut follows Libby as she goes about her work in a nameless Israeli city, riding in cars, seeing clients, meeting and befriending other sex workers and pimps. In prose as crystalline...
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Language
English
Formats
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Joseph Finder hailed Liad Shoham's previous book, Lineup, as a marvel of tight plotting, sparse prose, and relentless pacing. A young police officer's search for the truth about the murder of a young woman drives this new thriller from the #1 international bestseller--
Author
Language
English
Description
In the exhilarating tradition of I Am Pilgrim comes a sprawling, international high-stakes thriller that pits the intelligence of one man against one of the most successful spies ever to operate against American interests. When a young Israeli walks into an American embassy and offers to betray his country for money and power, he has no idea that the CIA agent interviewing him is a Russian mole. Years later, that young man has risen in the ranks...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
325 pages; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set between the eve of Passover and Israel's Independence Day ... a tense and immersive psychological read about two families looking for redemption, the transformative bonds between strangers, and the unexpected places from which love can grow."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
515 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An enthralling, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late nineteenth-century Russia, filled with "boundless imagination, wit, and panache" (David Grossman), and enough intrigue and misadventure to stupefy the Cohen brothers. With her reputation as a vilde chaya, a wild beast, Fanny Keismann isn't like the other women in her shtetl-certainly not her obedient and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose "philosopher" of a husband, Zvi-Meir, has run...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy-and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov is drawn to Szydowce, intrigued by the stories he'd heard...
Author
Publisher
Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
When their best friend Avishay, who is dead, is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics, his four closest friends conspire to conceal Avishay’s corpse until the committee’s announcement and must decide how far they’ll go to help their friend die a winner.
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Language
English
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A poignant, heartbreaking new work by one of the best novelists alive (Irving Howe)--the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other's lives in ways they could never have imagined. Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment advisor, he lives alone (his first wife and baby daughter were killed by the Nazis;...
10) Aquarium
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about two sisters, both deaf, raised in cultlike isolation by deaf parents, and the shattering consequences that unfold when their isolation comes to an end"--
11) The neighbors
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Language
English
Formats
Description
As she climbs the seven stories to her own apartment, a little girl imagines what happens behind every door she passes.
12) Sandcastle
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Building a grand sandcastle which attracts visiting royals from fairy-tale worlds, an imaginative young girl is dismayed by the constant sand that gets into everything, from the royal almond strudel and fig milk bath to the crocodile moat and badminton court.
13) Waking lions
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life--married to a beautiful police officer and father of two young boys. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene.When the victim's widow knocks at Eitan's door the next day, holding his wallet and divulging that she knows what happened, Eitan discovers that her price for silence...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
A pair of shipwrecked sailors have very different approaches to handling an absurd series of dilemmas, in this entertaining picture book that doubles as a meditation for optimists and pessimists alike.
16) Dog trouble!
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her new puppy goes missing, Julie worries that a school bully is behind her pet's disappearance and enlists the help of her mischevious twin brothers to bring the dog home.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Naomi has a fun and busy day at preschool and with her family, while Little Chick has a busy, fun day on the farm.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
Gifted Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
Eighteen-year-old Margalit from a village in northern Israel loves theater and dreams of becoming an actress. One day she falls in love with 24-year-old Eli from Kibbutz Beit Keshet. She tries to get close to him, hoping he2ll fall for her, but things don2t go so smoothly. He has a girlfriend and is busy with the dramatic events preceding the birth of Israel. Slowly the barriers come down, Margalit moves in with Eli, and they set up a date for their...
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