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Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Wolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London’s gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been--and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining another world. And when Wolf and Shomer's stories converge, we find ourselves drawn into a novel both shocking and profoundly haunting." --
43) Yael stands tall
Author
Series
Publisher
Judaica Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Chani, the shy new girl in Yael's class, is being teased by another girl -- and no one is doing anything to stop it. Soon, others are being teased, too. Join Yael as she learns to stand up tall and help her friends!"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Bookshop Editions
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"From one of the most accomplished writers of our time comes another brilliant collection of short fiction. Artful, agile, and inventive; Lydia Davis' newest collection of stories delves into topics ranging from marriage to tiny insects. These stories are a celebration of language and careful observation that once again confirms Davis' sincere love and mastery of the form." --
46) New people
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation,...
Author
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many items that are made from trees. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of live trees - and the environmental danger to trees posed by forest fires, floods, and deforestation. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to one another, but to the environment as well."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past-- memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith-- winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Working as an orderly in a gritty Brooklyn public hospital, Sima is often reminded by her superiors that she's the least important person there. An immigrant who, with her mother, escaped vicious anti-Semitism in Poland, she spends her shifts transporting patients, observing the doctors and residents ... and quietly nurturing her aspirations to become a doctor herself by going to night school. Now just one credit short of graduating, she finds herself...
50) Infinite home
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together.
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Up Down Inside Out is another innovative and surprising book from artist and bookmaker JooHee Yoon. This time, she takes up aphorisms and gives them wit and playfulness through visual explanation. Graphically gorgeous and mentally stimulating, this is a book for all ages, as well as for the ages"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a rabbinical dynastic family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Stein felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. Without...
53) Crooked Numbers
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When one of Raymond Donne's former students is found stabbed to death under the Williamsburg Bridge, Ray draws on his past as a cop to find the truth in Tim O'Mara's second New York mystery. Raymond Donne's former student Douglas Lee had everything going for him thanks to a scholarship to an exclusive private school in Manhattan, but all of that falls apart when his body is found below the Williamsburg Bridge with a dozen knife wounds in it. That...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark...
Author
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Cold Moon occurs in late December, auguring the arrival of the winter sol stice. Approaching the winter solstice of his own life, Roger Rosenblatt offers a book dedicated to the three most important lessons he has learned over his many years: an appreciation of being alive, a recognition of the gift and power of love, and the necessity of excercising responsibility toward one another. Rosenblatt's poetic reflections on these vital life lessons...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Emily Scott never planned on becoming a pastor. But when she started a church for misfits that met over dinner in Brooklyn, she discovered an unlikely calling-and an antidote to modern loneliness. As founding pastor of St. Lydia's in Brooklyn, New York, where worship takes place over a meal, Emily Scott spent eight years ministering to a scrappy collective of people with different backgrounds, incomes, and levels of social skills. Each week they...
Author
Publisher
POW, a division of PowerHouse Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"It's no big surprise that the Kraken has no friends, but he is TIRED OF IT. With a bad temper and a knack for destruction, his talent for meeting new fish is...not so seaworthy. He finds hope when another monster of the deep, a great white shark, offers him some RULES FOR MAKING FRIENDS. Will these rules help the most terrifying monster of the deep make a new chum?" --Publisher description.
58) The boy
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The boy does not speak. The boy has no name. The boy, raised half-wild in the forests of southern France, sets out alone into the wilderness and the greater world beyond. Having never encountered another person aside from his mother, the boy must learn what it is to be human, to exist among people, and to live beyond simple survival. As this wild and naive child attempts to join civilization, he encounters earthquakes and car crashes, ogres, and artists,...
Author
Publisher
Hotsoʼas̀ Peri ḥadash
Pub. Date
[2015?
Language
Yiddish
Description
"... "Oy, ṿu bin ikh?' Duṿid hoṭ geefenṭ zayne oygn. ... Ir ṿeṭ leynen miṭ ayn oṭem un asakh gefil di iberlebenishn fun: Duṿid'n un zayn familye, Barbara di nurs, Leyzer un zayn shṿesṭer Miryam.
Seventh grader David Braun is hit by a car. During his recovery, he must reconcile with a classmate; he also becomes a "pen-pal" with Leyzer, another accident victim. Devoted nurse Barbara respects greatly Mrs. Braun; then discovers...
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman witnesses a terrible accident with unexpected consequences, a mother sits with her unconscious son in a hospital room, a pair of sisters remember their mother's hands braiding their hair. The women in these quietly intense stories are all in one way or another out of sync with their lives and with themselves, women who appease and indulge, fret and acquiesce. Women who yearn to connect, who struggle to come to terms with unfulfilled...
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