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141) A bridge in time
Author
Publisher
Menucha Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
""Tante Chava said not to go on the bridge when it's raining," Tuvie warned me. Suddenly, lightning slashed the sky. Another blinding flash of lightning. A loud explosion. And then - Tuvie saw it first. "Move! Tali, move!" he yelled. A heavy wood plank was falling toward us. But my feet were frozen in terror. Tuvie tried to pull me away. Something struck my head. I felt a sharp pain, and then the whole world was tumbling around me... While their parents...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"The rise and fall of New York--a radical architect's view of the destruction of the city Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he charts the dehumanising regimes of mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio that created a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He looks at what has happened to Ground Zero, as a place of memory has been reconstructed by "staritects" and turned...
Author
Publisher
Menucha Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Oh, brother! Faigy My younger brother Feivel is so annoying. He spots the weirdest things on road trips, tosses toys around the room during cleanup, and mixes three soda flavors at the pizza shop - and thinks it's delicious! And why, oh why, is he singing and dancing in the rain? Feivel I don't understand why Faigy's so upset. She obviously doesn't understand my brilliance - or my awesome sense of humor. In this hilarious collection by Leah Milstein,...
Author
Series
Baker's dozen volume 12
Publisher
Menucha Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Paperback.
Language
English
Description
"Once there was a family. Their name was Baker. They had many children. Twelve of them. The Baker's Dozen. A bas mitzvah is a joyous event. So a quintuple bas mitzvah should be five times as happy, right? Then why are the Bakers so miserable? For one thing, the quints are divided over what kind of party to have. For another, Ashi is in trouble at yeshivah, and no one knows why. But the biggest reason is Tikva. She may be losing the most precious thing...
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what's best in us. In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew--from...
147) Operation Kneidel
Author
Series
Burksfield Bike Club volume 6
Publisher
The Judaica Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An all-new Burksfield Bike Club adventure! When Mr. Wetzelman, the local car mechanic, gets injured, the Burksfield Bike Club springs into action to run the very secretive 'Operation Blue Light.' Then, when they also take over the annual school carnival to raise money for an orphanage in Eretz Yisrael, the unthinkable happens, and before they know it they're involved in running the biggest kneidel contest that Burksfield has ever seen! Get ready...
Author
Series
Madame Chamberlain volume 3
Publisher
Menucha Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Three cheers - it's Madame Chamberlaine! Locked in the zoo with creepy creatures? Chasing a sea captain in a wobbly motorboat? Stuck on a skidding bus during a major snowstorm? Mes amies, Madame Chamberlaine is here pour aider! Madame Chamberlaine - with her bubbly laugh, pink-tasseled scarves, and delicious homemade French pastries - helps sisters Shprintzi and Shuly in one hilarious escapade after another. Join them as they zoom through the neighborhood...
Author
Publisher
Menucha Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Eli Zipperbaum, better known as Jelly Eli Z., doesn’t mind going to the corner grocery to shop for his mother — as long as he can use the spare change to buy the best jelly beans in town at Mr. Joseph’s candy store. One day, an old man in the back of the store starts telling Eli about his school days with Abraham Lincoln. Eli is fascinated, but he wonders if it’s a true story, a tall tale...or maybe something else? Join Jelly Eli and his family...
150) A tön of mön
Publisher
Torah Treasure
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Another incredible Shmuel Kunda classic, A Ton of Mon, is now on video! When the pasha invites the entire Jewish community to a big dinner, it's with dishonest intentions because he secretly wishes to convert the Jewish community. Meanwhile, the minister Iben Abu Ben Zak has an evil plot that is very sinister. Will the Jews go hungry and stay strong their faith? Or enjoy the non-Kosher delicacies of the palace? Find out in this exciting new tale...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of poems written by Sarah Ruhl"--
"An award-winning, multi-genre writer grapples with the pandemic, death of George Floyd, and other crises of our times in gnomic poems written from inside the purgatory (and sudden revelations) of quarantine."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Reynold Levy joined Lincoln Center in 2002. When he did so America's leading arts venue was routinely described in terms like this: "Behind the scenes, however, Lincoln Center is a community in deep distress, riven by conflict over a grandiose $1 billion redevelopment plan ... instead of uniting the Center's constituent arts organizations behind a common goal, the project has pitted them against one another in open warfare more reminiscent of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Menucha Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The fourth grade class is playing a special game, "Giants and Elves." Everyone is excited -- except for Rivky who is sick and will have to miss all the fun. But as always, the Treehouse Kids manage to find a way to solve their problems -- and have a great time too! Find out how in Giant Steps."--Judaicaplace.com
"The treehouse is in danger! Can the Kid Sisters find a way to save their tree? Meanwhile, Debby is trying to figure out why the other...
Series
Best American poetry volume 36
Publisher
Collier/Simon & Schuster/Scribner Poetry
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work.
Author
Publisher
Kinder Shpiel USA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Yiddish
Description
A shmuʻeh hoṭ ongeḳumen ḳayn Teman az Baron Roṭshild hoṭ geḳoyfṭ land in Erets Yiśroʼel far di Idn fun di ṿelṭ. In yor 642 bashlisn a grupe Temon'e idn oroyftsugeyn...Afn ṿeg, ṿerṭ ge'ganv'eṭ di farmegns fun di Idn, er [Yitsḥoḳ, a ziser ingl], prubirṭ es tsuriḳ tsu brengn. A ṭoʻesʼ afn shif brengṭ tsu Yitsḥaḳ zol forn tsu a tsṿeyṭn plats, aleyn, eynzam un dershroḳn.--
"A rumor reached Yemen that...
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