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Lloyd, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLO

Rosner, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Albom, Mitch

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALB

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ALB

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALB

Sager, Riley

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume 17-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SAG

Hood, Joshua

Summary: "The final days of the American presence in Afghanistan bring Adam Hayes a summons he can't ignore in the latest electrifying thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. Adam Hayes has stepped away from the field for the last time. He's promised his wife that he won't put his life on the line any more, and there's nothing that will make him break a promise to his wife. Well...almost nothing. With...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

Vandelly, T. Marie

Summary: For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it, but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her mother and brothers and then slashed a knife across his own throat. Only one-year-old Dixie was left alive, infamously known as Baby Blue for the song left playing in the aftermath of the slaughter. Twenty-five years later,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Albom, Mitch

2 holds on 7 copies

Summary: Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Jackson, Lisa

Summary: The sole survivor of a brutal family massacre twenty years earlier, Kars McIntyre, when the person believed to be responsible for the killings is released, wonders how many times she can be the girl who survived as people around her die horrible deaths. All her life, she's been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family's Oregon cabin, Kara...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jackson

Gillham, David R.

Summary: "1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIL

Marsh, Katherine

Summary: In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAR

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