Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Summary: "In 1983, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of trying to move on with their lives and resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream, coming to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLELloyd, Toby
Summary: A close-knit Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch. Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both intellectually gifted and deeply unconventional, the Rosenthals believe in the literal truth of the Old Testament and in the presence of God (and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLORidker, Andrew
Summary: "A hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly-perfect family in an era of waning American optimism, from the acclaimed author of The Altruists. The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a successful physician with his own cardiology practice. His wife, Deb, is a pillar of the community...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIDHorn, Dara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORBerest, Anne
Summary: "Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BERRosner, Jennifer
Summary: "From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSMurphy, Louise
Summary: A retelling of the classic fairy tale, set in Nazi-occupied Poland, follows two Jewish children, left by their father and stepmother to seek refuge in a dense forest, as they wander the woods until being taken in by Magda, an eccentric old woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURBall, Bethany
Summary: "From a remarkable new voice in fiction, Bethany Ball, comes a transporting debut; a hilarious multigenerational family saga set in Israel, New York, and Los Angeles that explores the secrets and gossip-filled lives of a kibbutz community near Jerusalem. Meet Marc Solomon, an Israeli ex-Navy commando now living in L.A., who is falsely accused of money laundering through his asset management...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALPlain, Belva.
Summary: Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PLAAttenberg, Jami
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco: an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMargolis, Sue.
Summary: Tallulah's grandmother, Nana Ida, wants her granddaughter to have a big Jewish wedding although Tallulah and her fiancé would prefer a small wedding. After months of planning the groom doesn't show up. So Nana Ida gets busy with matchmaking and Tallulah discovers that happiness doesn't always come in the form of the perfect doctor and that real love doesn't require a catered affair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARPlain, Belva.
Summary: Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLABraff, Joshua
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRASegal, Francesca
Summary: As he prepares for his wedding to Rachel Gilbert, the girl he has been with for twelve years, Adam Newman begins to question everything when Rachel's fiercely independent and beautiful young cousin moves home from New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voice / Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEGIsaacs, Susan
Summary: A septuagenarian business owner evaluates her grandchildren as possible successors to her multi-million-dollar beauty empire, including New York movie studio editor Daisy, womanizing sports PR representative Matt, and religious Legal Aid lawyer Raquel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Isaacs 2012Janowitz, Brenda
Summary: "This Passover Seder is not just any Passover Seder. Yes, there will be a quick service and then a festive meal afterwards, but this night is different from all other nights. This will be the night the Golds of Greenwich meet the Rothschilds of New York City. The Rothschilds are the stuff of legends. They control banks, own vineyards in Napa, diamond mines in Africa, and even an organic farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANGilmore, Jennifer.
Summary: Spanning the first half of the twentieth century, Golden Country brings to life the intertwining stories of three Jewish immigrants seeking their fortunes--the handsome and ambitious Seymour, a salesman-turned-gangster-turned-Broadway-producer; the gentle and pragmatic Joseph, a door-to-door salesman who is driven to invent a cleanser effective enough to wipe away the shame of his brother's mob...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILPotok, Chaim.
Summary: A Jewish girl in 1930s New York looks past her parents' idealism in search of something to comfort her as she observes discord and disunity everywhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTSolomons, Natasha
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I. Vienna, 1911. Twenty-one-year-old Greta Goldbaum has always hungered after what's forbidden: secret university lectures, unseemly trumpet lessons, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLPollack, Eileen
Summary: It's 1995, and Louise Shapiro has left California to start a new life in rural Michigan with her husband, Richard, and their daughter, Molly. Within weeks, an explosion destroys the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, leaving innocent civilians dead and maimed. As the accusations and conspiracy theories proliferate--about Arabs, Jews, Christians, the FBI, the government--Louise discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Way Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POLOwens, Zibby
Summary: "Pippa Jones is a fortyish former literary sensation who fears she will be a one-hit wonder. After the follow-up book she was almost done writing, Podlusters, had to be tossed (it ended up sharing a plot and title with superstar author Ella Rankin's summer blockbuster!), she couldn't write a thing. Months of staring at a blank page made her confidence vanish like a one-night stand. When she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC OWEThoene, Bodie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOArnold, Elana K.
Summary: From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARNCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARNAttenberg, Jami
Summary: The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, everyone's lives soon take a dramatic turn. But they each learn that running from the past can't save you.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024