Sylvie Courtine-Denamy Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the...

Jordan L Hawk Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne wants nothing more than a quiet life with his lover, private detective Griffin Flaherty. Unfortunately, Whyborne’s railroad tycoon father has other ideas:...

Joseph BoydenA haunting novel of love, identity, and loss-from the internationally acclaimed author of Three Day RoadBeautifully written and startlingly original, Through Black Spruce takes the considerable talents of Canadian...

Adam Gopnik On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to...

Guy Deutscher "Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics... he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect...

Esther ShkopSefer Bereishit ― the Book of Genesis ―relates the stories of our Patriarchs and Matriarchs. So little is known about their struggles and achievements, and their spiritual stature is...

Frieda Korobkin The remarkable story of a six-year-old girl who, in the winter of 1938, is uprooted overnight from her rabbinic family in Vienna, and sent on the Kindertransport to...

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Scott O'Dell and Elizabeth Hall It is spring of 1877 when fourteen-year-old Sound of Running Feet, daughter of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, sees white people panning gold in...

Neal Shusterman“Intelligent and entertaining.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Even better than the first book.” —School Library Journal (starred review)Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting...

Douglas Preston and Lincoln ChildNora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed...

Erik Larson A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely...