Fiction - Jewish

Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Greek city during the Holocaust, to America, where the intertwined lives of three survivors are forever changed by the perils of deception and the grace of redemption.Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis...

Filtering the darkest, most dramatic period of modern Jewish history through the naive, often sage, perspective of a remarkable dog, The Jewish Dog offers readers a view of the Holocaust as never seen before. This bestselling novel in Israel follows the life and thoughts...

Author: Arnon Z. ShorrISBN-13: 9798989459421Publisher: Oxrock Productions, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2024Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d

Author: Lynda Cohen LoigmanISBN-10: 1250819504ISBN-13: 9781250819505Publisher: St. Martin's GriffinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2025Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d

From "one of the great--if not the greatest--of living Yiddish novelists" (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity "It is me the prophet laments...

From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set in the Middle East during World War I. Based on an astonishing true story, it asks what are you willing to die for? For readers of Geraldine Brooks, Heather...

Two brothers, separated by mysterious circumstances, find themselves reunited, seeking to forge a new future. Despite barriers of faith, language and family expectations, they form new bonds. Ambitious Simon seeks help from his uncle to save the family farm, but instead ends up working...

Mark Lewis felt isolated and out of place. Born in Brooklyn, New York, a few years after the end of World War II, at the age of six his family moved to Augusta, Georgia. A scrawny Jewish kid, he finds difficulty adjusting to the...

A fictionalization of the author's adolescent sexual adventures in Austria and Paris in the years following World War I, they are for the most part adventures in sexual frustration. The four women he encounters are as different from one another as they could be....

In contemporary New York City, a Jewish woman falls in love with a Palestinian wall painter who has been charged with killing her. Galia, a Russian Jew living in New York, has no idea that the man she's drawn to, Alejandro (not his real...

Who will rebuild God's most holy temple, and at what cost?In a near-future Jerusalem, harrowing omens plague the city: a desecrated altar, an unbearable stench, a rampant famine. Shaken but devout, Jonathan, the royal family's third son, continues to hold services and offer animal...

In seven and a half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter's Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, all drenched in suburban wonder and dread. Sometimes realist, sometimes not, the book revolves around Kol B'Seder, a...

Author: Tod LendingISBN-10: 0063413841ISBN-13: 9780063413849Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 400Format: Paperback

A prismatic, mind-bending family epic about the splintering of a Jewish family from Vienna--exploring the weight of exile and how grief twists our sense of the impossible. Everyone had been survived into different futures and I would never see any of them again. I...

Dear Edna Sloane is a funny, fast-paced epistolary novel about fame, writers, ambition, and the ups and downs of a creative life.Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game. Her debut novel was an instant classic and commercial success, vaulting...

"A thoroughly enjoyable novel, both moving and astutely farcical." - Kirkus ReviewsMagical soup, a secret society, and a young girl, wise beyond her yearsWhen Rachel Cohen is born, her parents' marriage begins to crack. As she grows, and her village teeters on the brink,...

Readers of Stephanie Drey and Allison Pataki will enjoy this highly anticipated sequel, an epic saga of love set during the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt that explores loyalty, cultural failures, and a potentially history-altering military defeat. More than a year has elapsed since the...

The Village of Little Pletzl-on-the-Zump is the sequel to the book The Village of Little Comely-on-the-Marsh.Pletzl, the story, weaves around the lives of a bizarre Yiddish-speaking community of 613 people living for hundreds of years in a small village somewhere in the south of...

Ari Lazarus is a member of an elite Israeli secret agency, which hunts terrorists around the world and eliminates them.After Israel has been threatened with being "wiped off the map" by Iranian leaders and generals, Ari and groups of Israeli Special Forces determine that...

Yellow Jack and Turpentine is the first historical fiction novel about Jewish living in the Ozarks. Set in the 1880s and based on the memoir published in Documenting Jewish of the Ozarks a special double edition of OzarksWatch Magazine (and the most republished edition...

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own. The...

Fantastic tales of demons and the Evil Eye, magical incantations, and powerful attractions abound in Enchantress, a novel that weaves together Talmudic lore, ancient Jewish magic, and a timeless love story set in fourth-century Babylonia. One of the most powerful practitioner of these mysterious...

An "epic and marvelously entertaining" family saga by award-winning author Linda Grant about the European Jewish experience from WWI to the present day, that "constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back" (Financial Times). It's 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter...

In the words of Lee Child on Gone to Dust, "I want more of Nils Shapiro." New York Times-bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman happily obliges by bringing the Minneapolis private detective back for another thrilling, standalone adventure in Dead West. Nils Shapiro...

Life-long Jewish friends Naomi, Miriam, and Becky are approaching middle-age gracefully and are content-despite a few hot flashes and mood swings-until life tosses each woman a crisis... When Becky, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, learns of her only son's engagement to a non-Jew, she...

A widow. A spinster. An angry young wife. Their paths cross in an arduous journey from Babylon to Yehud as Ezra leads the Jews back to their homeland. A vindictive Persian stalks the caravan to the Promised Land where unforeseen challenges threaten resettlement. Ancestral...

Ian, Jerome and Sarah (a Jew, a Catholic and a Protestant), the three attorneys who love to show up early to work to argue, find themselves arguing Israel's legal right to the Land of Israel this time around. Sarah poses a question that could...

Dovid was a poor man down on his luck in a 17th century Polish Jewish world traumatized by the pogroms of the Cossack chieftain Chmielnicki and reeling from the tragedy of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Eking out a meager existence reading psalms for...

From the award-winning author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and the new story collection, Awayland. In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands...

No one knows why John Carter has a number on his arm, obviously from a German Concentration Camp.He himself was never given a satisfactory answer about a tatoo which seems to have been with him all his life. His past - a dark mystery....

A dazzling debut novel set in New York City's Jewish immigrant community in 1935... How was it that out of all the girls in the office, I was the one to find myself in this situation? This didn't happen to nice Jewish girls. In...

In the highly anticipated second Amos Parisman mystery, a simple request turns into a complex investigation when Parisman's latest client is murdered before the job is complete.Author: Andy WeinbergerISBN-10: 194555195XISBN-13: 9781945551956Publisher: Prospect Park BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2020Pages: 296Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81dReview...

Author: Ellie MidwoodISBN-10: 1835257259ISBN-13: 9781835257258Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2024Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.71d

Author: Kelly Elizabeth HustonISBN-13: 9798987788561Publisher: Watermount PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2024Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.78d

Author: Suzanne KelmanISBN-10: 1837905304ISBN-13: 9781837905300Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2024Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.82d

Some people like comic books. They read them. They collect them. They grade them and sell them for a profit. Or, at least, they try to sell them for a profit. Comic book people love their comics from superheroes to romance to funny animals....

As World War II erupts, a young Jewish scribe flees Lithuania with his most prized possession, his in-progress copy of the Torah, setting him on an unusual collision course with a family of Chinese calligraphers living under Japanese occupation. A stranger in a strange...

Author: Gertrude LandaISBN-10: 1396326340ISBN-13: 9781396326349Publisher: Left of Brain BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2024Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.51d

This is an historical fiction novel. San Reina is a fictional town, imagined in Jamaica, West Indies. The story takes place in 1927 and features discussion of the economy around banana production, bustling local market activity and history of German emigration to Jamaica 1840's....

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 yearsAn ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality, and generational silence, City...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JANE WENHAM-JONES AWARD FOR COMEDY IN THE 2022 ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARDS**The new romantic comedy from the author of Adult Virgins Anonymous. Tamsyn Rutman is at yet another wedding, for yet another cousin. She wouldn't mind - the food's pretty good, the...

A poignant and humorous story of love despite dysfunction among an assimilating extended Jewish family riddled with secrets in suburban Cleveland during 1961.While in today's world they would just seem a bit eccentric, in 1961 suburban Cleveland, the Katofskys of 2207 South Green Road...

THE BOOK OF ORDER follows wife and mother Margaret Hoffman as she navigates Boston's suburbs in the days before Passover, arranging the affairs of her recently deceased father. He taught Jewish history at a local college, so along with her other tasks, she must...

In 1930s Berlin, young Henrik, the son of a Jewish father and Aryan mother, watches the world around him crumbling: people are rioting in the streets, a strange yellow star begins appearing in shop windows, and friends are forced to move--or they simply disappear....

"I have counted the days until you would return to my waiting arms, my insistent kisses. But now I know you never will..." On a rainy hike by Loch Lomond, Eve Waldman stumbles upon a perfectly preserved journal in a hidden cave. The time-worn...

When your world is out of tune, can music heal you?Cast out from her home after her mother's death, orphan Abigail Jones wanders around her English town on Christmas Eve of 1809. Desperately trying to suppress her cough-the same that killed her mother-Abigail begs...

From the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, eight powerful stories, dazzling in their display of language and imagination. From the title story, a provocative portrait of two marriages inspired by Raymond Carver's masterpiece, to "Peep Show" and "How We...

Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century.Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century.In eleven compelling narratives inheritors of...

A woman drops everything to spend more time with her grandchild, only to discover new truths about herself. A humorous, heartfelt, feel-good novel from the author of Crazy to Leave You.For Jodi Wexler, a Florida doctor with a flourishing practice, only one thing's missing:...

Author: John HerseyISBN-10: 0394756967ISBN-13: 9780394756967Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/1988Pages: 640Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.50d