Ocean State Libraries

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"The authors first novel-a dreamlike story of a husbands obsessive search for his wifes lover amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War. The story of the search has the elegant symmetry of a cut gem." --Discoverbooks.com.

A novel on life in a Jewish village in pre-World War II Poland, tracing relations with the surrounding Christians. The main characters are a soft-spoken man, his wife, and her crafty mother. A prequel to Of Lodz and Love.

Judith moves to a village in Palestine and three men fall in love with her. She refuses to marry any of them, but eleven years later she gives birth to a son. The boy resembles all three men and all three claim him as their own. Finally, Judith marries one of the men, only to die in a snowstorm. Told by Zayde, her son. By an Israeli writer, author of The Blue Mountain.

A member of a wealthy Russian Jewish family fights for the survival of herself and her child during the Nazi occupation of World War II.

"Meiselman has had enough. After a lifetime spent playing by the rules, this lonely thirty-six-year-old man -- 'number two' at the New Niles Public Library in suburban Chicago, in charge of events and programs, and in no control whatsoever over his fantasies about his domineering boss -- is looking to come out on top at last. And no one -- not his newly observant physical therapist wife, not the Holocaust survivor neighbor who regularly disturbs his...

"An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, anemigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a...

The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. "An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in New York from 1911-1925"--

A novel on post-World War II Jewish refugees in New York. It is centered on the Makavers, a prosperous family torn by scandal. Anna, their daughter, has left her husband and taken up with a married man.