Filter By Authors
Diamant, Anita Janowitz, Brenda Matthiessen, Peter. Solomons, Natasha. Weisman, JamieFilter By Authors
Diamant, Anita Janowitz, Brenda Matthiessen, Peter. Solomons, Natasha. Weisman, JamieMatthiessen, Peter.
Summary: "From the two-time National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, a short, powerful novel about an American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapplewith his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Matthiessen 2014Solomons, Natasha.
Summary: " A stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford London, 1958. It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, shefinds herself a living widow, invisible. Ever since her husband disappeared seven years ago, Juliet has been a hardworking single mother of two and unnaturally...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLWeisman, Jamie
Summary: "For readers of Maggie Shipstead and Maria Semple, a tender and funny debut that tells the story of an interfaith wedding in Atlanta -- from the perspectives of its (adoring, envious, resentful, hilarious) guests...One afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia. Two people heading to the altar. One hundred fifty guests. The bride, Elizabeth Gottlieb, proud graduate of the University of Virginia and of Emory...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIDiamant, Anita
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Diamant 2014Janowitz, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2016