He watches the women from the shadows. He has an understanding with them; as long as they follow his rules, they are safe. But when they sin, he sentences them to death. A woman is found dead in a...
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Auteur: Tursten, HeleneSommaire: -
Auteur: Moore, Deborah DashSommaire:
The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, "City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York," Jewish New York...
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Auteur: Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
Frank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens his position within his department. While trying to keep both his relationship with Sarah and...
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Auteur: McDonald, IanSommaire:In the moon's near-feudal society, you must fight for every inch you want to gain. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation...
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Auteur: Müller, HertaSommaire:Romania, 1989. Three friends are enjoying comfortable lives, but one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the whole group. Terror ensues as Adina and her friends struggle to...
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Auteur: Merkin, DaphneSommaire:A rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this...
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Auteur: Carter, BetsySommaire:On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor--escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling in upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight...
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Auteur: Smiley, JaneSommaire:
"Eight or nine times a day, day after day, men and horses go out and line up and start running, and the next thing you know, you are in mystery-land." So says Leo, a sad-sack gambler with an...
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Auteur: Creech, SharonSommaire:Nicknamed the "trouble twins," 13- year-old brother and sister Dallas and Florida have long since given up hope of ever finding a family. Then they meet Tiller and Sairy, an eccentric older couple...
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Auteur: St. James, JamesSommaire:Billy Bloom is gay, but it's mostly theoretical, as he hasn't had much experience. When he has to move to Florida, he can't believe his bad luck. His new school is a mix of Bible Belles,...
Genre: Young adult fiction -
Auteur: Brenner-Wonschick, HanneloreSommaire:From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In the mid-1990s, German...
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Auteur: Moore, Meg MitchellSommaire:Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to...
Genre: Domestic fiction, Young adult fiction -
Auteur: Fogel, SusannaSommaire:Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, Nuclear Family is a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents.
Genre: Domestic fiction, Epistolary fiction -
Auteur: Applebaum, AnneSommaire:From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes-the consequences of which still...
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Auteur: Greenberg, Amy S.Sommaire:
The acclaimed author of A Wicked War now gives us the little known story of Sarah Polk: remarkably influential First Lady, and brilliant master of the art of high politics--a crucial but...