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#1 New York Times bestselling author and "queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory weaves a spellbinding tale of a young woman with the ability to see the future in an era when destiny was anything but clear.
Winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee with her father from their home in Spain. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee; she has the gift of "Sight,"...
Winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee with her father from their home in Spain. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee; she has the gift of "Sight,"...
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Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling bees in quick succession, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality,...
10) Oreo
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New Directions paperbook ; 1309
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English
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"Oreo, a biracial Black girl from Philadelphia, searches for her Jewish father in New York City, navigating the labyrinth of sound studios, brothels, and subway tunnels of Manhattan in a journey of self-discovery." --
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Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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Two women aviators in 1933 set out to break a flight endurance record by circling over Toronto for 25 days, refuelling in mid-air. The novel describes the way the women live in the open cockpit and the bond that forms as they brave fatigue, weather and mechanical trouble. A first novel.
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Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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The era is the 1970s and early 80s and the sisters, Hannah and Carolyn Kahn, have a lot to contend with. More than anything, they face the dark cloud of their parents' fragile marriage, a workaholic father who sells insurance and a shopaholic mother who would like to leave her loveless marriage but is too scared to do so. Further complicating the sisters' lives is their status as the only Jewish family residing in their small Connecticut town.
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Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
1990.
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English
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Follows Allegra from the age of three to thirteen as she illustrates her story of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s - pre-bas-mitzvah, pre-Jewish feminism, pre-having-a-destiny other than marriage, time. She contents with the narrowness, bigotries, and limitations of her family as she comes to recognize them.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Ruby is the youngest child in the tightly knit Bronstein family, a sensitive, observant girl who looks up to her older brothers and is in awe of her stern but gentle father, a Holocaust survivor whose past and deep sense of morality inform the family's life. But when Ruby is ten, her eldest brother enters the hospital and emerges as someone she barely recognizes. It is only the first in a startling series of tragedies that befall the Bronsteins and...
