Shoham, Liad
Summary: "Joseph Finder hailed Liad Shoham's previous book, Lineup, as "a marvel of tight plotting, sparse prose, and relentless pacing." A young police officer's search for the truth about the murder of a young woman drives this new thriller from the #1 international bestseller"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOKrauss, Nicole
Summary: One of America's most important novelists (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals, an older lawyer and a young novelist, whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRAShoham, Liad
Summary: When a brutal rape case is thrown out due to a procedural technicality and the suspect goes free, disgraced Detective Eli Nahum, after another rape occurs in a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood, is determined to find the truth at any cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOAmiry, Suad
Summary: "Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMISummary: After her sister dies in childbirth, a young orthodox Jewish woman's family pressures her to marry her brother-in-law rather than entering into an arranged marriage with a man closer to her age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FILLeBor, Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.948 LEBWilliams, Emma.
Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, EMMA WILChen, Limor
Summary: Limor Chen's Delamina restaurants are known for serving up fragrant, exciting and vibrant dishes to transport you to sun-soaked Tel Aviv. In her debut cookbook gorgeously presented in real cloth-bound hardback, Limor shares her wholesome cooking style, one that centres on health and freshness, ensuring that each recipe is packed with flavour and fragrance while remaining light and nourishing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nourish 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595694 CHESummary: Or, a pretty and popular Tel Aviv high school student, works nights at a neighborhood restaurant while taking her first tentative steps out of innocence and into first love. But her real full-time job is looking after her mother who has worked as a street prostitute for 20 years. The daughter must make a choice between taking care of her mother's bottomless needs or having an uncorrupted life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORSummary: "Amin Jaafari ..., an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society, has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013