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After Anatevka: A Novel Inspired by "Fiddler on the Roof"

by Alexandra Silber

Published: 2017-07-04

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A sweeping historical novel in the grand tradition of Russian literature that imagines what happens to the characters of Fiddler on the Roof after the curtain falls. The world knows well the tale of Tevye, the beloved Jewish dairyman from the shtetl Anatevka of Tsarist Russia. In stories ...

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The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl

by Marra B. Gad

Published: 2019-11-12

Paperback: 256 pages

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An unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring her home when Alzheimer’s strikes In 1970, three-day-old Marra B. Gad was adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago. For her parents, it was love at ...

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A River Could Be a Tree: A Memoir

by Angela Himsel

Published: 2018-11-13

Hardcover: 288 pages

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How does a woman who grew up in rural Indiana as a fundamentalist Christian end up a practicing Jew in New York? Angela Himsel was raised in a German-American family, one of eleven children who shared a single bathroom in their rented ramshackle farmhouse in Indiana. The Himsels followed ...

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Mid, A Girl In The Mountains

by Constance Smith

Published: 2019-11-13

Paperback: 86 pages

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Meet cleareyed and spirited Mid Cover. Her story is set in the beautiful mountains of West Virginia during the years of the Great Depression. Mid and her siblings spent happy hours playing and foraging in the woods. However, Pocahontas County was not idyllic: poverty, stench from a tannery and polluted...

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Swimming in Darkness

by Lucas Harari

Published: 2019-11-05

Hardcover: 152 pages

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An NPR Best Book of the YearPierre is a young man at a crossroads. He drops out of architecture school and decides to travel to Vals in the Swiss Alps, home to a thermal springs complex located deep inside a mountain. The complex, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, had been the subject o...

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This Is Not How It Ends

by Rochelle B. Weinstein

Published: 2020-01-01

Paperback: 351 pages

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From USA Today bestselling author Rochelle B. Weinstein comes a moving novel of hearts lost and found, and of one woman torn between two love stories.When Charlotte and Philip meet, the pair form a deep and instant connection. Soon they’re settled in the Florida Keys with plans to marry....

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When We Were Brave

by Karla M Jay

Published: 2019-04-06

Paperback: 415 pages

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In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death camps. Izaak is a young Jewish boy whose positive outlook is challenged daily as each new perilous situation comes along. American citizens, Herbert...

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How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results

by Esther Wojcicki

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK.  Esther Wojcicki—“Woj” to her many friends and...

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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

by William Dalrymple

Published: 2019-09-10

Hardcover: 576 pages

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ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR“Superb … A vivid and richly detailed story … worth reading by everyone.” ?The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Return of a King, the st...

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All the Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel of the Ritz Paris

by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White

Published: 2020-01-14

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz ...