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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Shoshanna Greenburg loves her job at the bookstore, Once Upon, until Jake Kaplan joins the staff, a handsome non-reader who challenges her for a bonus she needs.
Shoshanna Greenberg loves working at Once Upon, her favorite local bookstore. With her moms fighting at home, the store has become a welcome escape. When her boss announces a holiday bonus to the person who sells the most books, Shoshanna sees an opportunity to get her car fixed. The only...
43) Tickety tock
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Schmuel the tailor rushes through his life, not really doing what he wants to until a magic clock gives him the time to appreciate the world around him.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
513 pages (large print); 22 cm.
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"Yeshua of Nazareth has two sisters: Damaris, married to a wealthy merchant's son, and Pheodora, married to a simple shepherd from Bethlehem. When Pheodora's husband suffers an unexpected reversal of fortune and is thrown into debtor's prison, she returns to Nazareth, where she pins her hopes on two she-goats who should give birth to spotless white kids that would be perfect for the upcoming Yom Kippur sacrifice. In the eighteen months between the...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Description
"The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit"--
47) Daughter of Cana
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Series
Jerusalem Road volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"In AD 30, Tasmin encounters a wedding guest who turns water into the finest wine ever tasted in Cana. But when her twin brother, Thomas, impulsively chooses to follow the Teacher from Nazareth, she decides to follow the group and do whatever she must to bring her brother home"--
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 2
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
380 p. ; 21 cm.
50) Shadow song
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It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago. In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely friend. A rural Southerner on his exciting first journey north, Bobo learned from Avrum that each life is marked...
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Joseph Skibell's magical tale about the Holocaust-a fable inspired by fact-received unanimous nationwide acclaim when first published in 1997.
At the center of A Blessing on the Moon is Chaim Skibelski. Death is merely the beginning of Chaim's troubles. In the opening pages, he is shot along with the other Jews of his small Polish village. But instead of resting peacefully in the World to Come, Chaim, for reasons unclear to him, is left to wander...
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"The year is 1945 in Austria, where an SS officer and some of his men visit a stable, determined to find the Jewish boy they believe the owner is hiding there. Luckily, just as Jakob-the boy in question-is about to be found, the men are called away...but not before the SS officer shoots and kills Jakob's favorite horse. It's very clear then, to Jakob and his guardian, that they are no longer safe there. Traveling through Nazi territory with that many...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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This definitive edition, featuring a new translation, is the diary as Anne Frank wrote it, containing entries about her burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Frank's diary is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Zion legacy volume 4
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
272 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Description
Moshe Sachar escapes the brutal fighting in Jerusalem in 1949 to a secret tunnel. There he finds an ancient scroll that tells the story of the troubled love between a Jewish widow and a Roman centurian.
58) Eternal
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"Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937,...
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Pub. Date
2000, c. 1999
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
At the age of fifty, a woman in the South awakens to her almost-forgotten Jewish heritage. It happens to Thea McKee of North Carolina after she finds letters by her grandmother from Denmark and has them translated from the Yiddish.
60) Displaced
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Echoing the fiction of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, this deeply intelligent debut literary thriller-set within a world still reeling from World War II-explores how the actions of a few can change the course of history.
British-occupied Palestine, 1946: Elderly writer Elias Lind isn't convinced by reports that his scientist brother, Raphael, died in a concentration camp. Too frail to search for Raphael himself, Elias persuades a contact...
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