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It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately...
2) Bee season
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.
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Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 8
Language
English
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Mark Rubin's family is missing, and the police can't do a thing because all the evidence indicates that his wife left willingly. So the successful furrier turns to Tess Monaghan. Tapping into a network of fellow investigators spread across the country, Tess is soon able to locate the runaway wife and her stolen progeny, moving furtively from state to state, town to town. But a man is traveling with them -- a stranger described by witnesses as "handsome"...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating an accord with Adolf Hitler and accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic policies.
6) The postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
Author
Series
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 12
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
504 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the sixteenth century, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, flees Spain with her father because of the Inquisition and is ultimately adopted by Robert Dudley, son of King Edward's protector. She is brought to court as a fool for Queen Mary and then Queen Elizabeth and eventually she has to choose between life as a commoner and becoming entangled in the life of the royal family.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the waning days of 1999, the last of the Alters — three damaged but wisecracking sisters who share an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — decide it’s time to close the circle of the family curse by taking their own lives. But first, Lady, Vee, and Delph must explain the origins of that curse and how it has manifested throughout the preceding generations. Unspooling threads of history, personal memory, and family lore, they weave...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (11 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Hannah Rosenthal sets sail on the SS St. Louis, a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage out of Germany. She soon discovers that the overseas asylum she had been promised is an illusion.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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A forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro — the Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules....
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