Littman, Sarah
Summary: "After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, Declan Taylor accidentally messes up his throwing arm. Despite painful surgery and brutal physical therapy, he might never pitch again. He's forced to get a job to help his family out, and his best friend, Jake Lehrer, is flirting with Declan's crush, or ditching him to hang out with the team or his friends from synagogue. Declan plays a lot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LITLowe, Mari
Summary: A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWMullen, Thomas
Summary: "A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in World War II-era Boston. June, 1943. Wartime tensions are running high, and an atmosphere of distrust and unease is dividing friends and neighbors. The two protagonists of Thomas Mullen's gripping historical thriller find themselves at the center of a dangerous tinderbox, trying to douse the sparks before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MULWind, Lee
Summary: On Isaac's street most of the houses are decorated in red and green for Christmas including his friend, Teresa's, while Isaac's house is blue and white for Hanukkah; then someone smashes Isaac's window in the night, and Teresa comes up with a way to showsupport her friend--and gets the whole community to rally around their Jewish family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2002
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Summary: "Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction Fox 2021Korman, Gordon.
Summary: "Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORMandelbaum, Becky
Summary: "2016. The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals is in trouble. Ariel discovers that her mother Mona's animal sanctuary in Western Kansas has not only been the target of anti-Semitic hate crimes, it is also for sale, due to hidden financial ruin. Ariel, living a new life in progressive Lawrence, and estranged from her mother for six years, returns to her childhood home - and finds her first love, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANRoth, Philip.
Summary: "Published together for the first time as the author intended, Nemeses is a quartet of novels whose terrain is the human body and whose subject, the common experience that terrifies us all"--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTOzick, Cynthia
Summary: "From one of our most pre eminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past , and how our experience colors those meanings. Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with a description of present events. As he navigates, with faltering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZIThoene, Bodie
Summary: Her own identity was safely disguised. But what about those she loved most. They would soon disappear with all the others unless... .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THOENEResnick, Benjamin
Summary: "After a black hole consumes the State of Israel, similar strange events occur in major cities around the world, ushering in a time of chaos as well as miracles. It is not long before conspiracy theories take hold in various pockets of the globe: Are the Jews the victims, or are they the culprits?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2024
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Roth, Philip.
Summary: What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTCarlton, Susan Kaplan
Summary: In the very white, very Christian world of Altlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyaltieslie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARKander, Beth
Summary: "Nothing's going well for Eve: she's single, turning forty, stressed at work, and anxious about a recent series of increasingly creepy incidents. Most devastatingly, her beloved father died last year, and her family still won't acknowledge their sorrow. With her younger sister's wedding rapidly approaching, Eve is on the verge of panic. She can't bear to attend the event alone. That's when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLERoth, Philip.
Summary: When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the thirty-third...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTBurke, James Lee
Summary: "It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde's stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUREco, Umberto.
Summary: 19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons, Italina priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From teh unification...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: 19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons, Italina priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From teh unification...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ECORoth, Philip.
Contents: The dying animal -- The plot against America -- Exit ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTFox, Lauren
Summary: "From the author of the highly praised Days of Awe: a sweeping, achingly beautiful new novel that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present day Wisconsin, unspooling a story of love, longing, and the ceaseless push and pull of motherhood"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Fox 2021Norman, Howard A.
Summary: "Jacob Rigolet, soon to be fired from his position as assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction to see his mother, Nora Ives Rigolet, until that day head librarian at Halifax Free Library, walk almost casually up the aisle and fling an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capa's "Death on a Leipzig Balcony." Jacob's fiancee, the erotically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC WheGomez, Halli
Summary: A diverse group of teenagers with distinct backgrounds must collaborate in a challenging escape room, navigating personal struggles and suspicions, as they aim to overcome their differences and trust each other to win the prize money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jolly Fish Press 2025