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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Cohen
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Fiction Cohen
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Cohen
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Fiction Cohen
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Cohen
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Fiction Cohen
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"Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with...
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Krauss
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Fiction Krauss
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Krauss
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Fiction Krauss
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Krauss
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Fiction Krauss
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The National Book Award finalist explores contemporary gender realities in a collection of short fiction that traces the experiences of diverse characters at various stages of life.
3) Herzog
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A multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption.
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Taylor
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Fiction Taylor
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Taylor
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Fiction Taylor
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Taylor
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Fiction Taylor
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"... a series of letters between Max, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco, and Martin, his friend and former business partner, who has returned to Germany in 1932, just as Hitler is coming to power."--Publisher.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Kaplan
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Fiction Kaplan
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Kaplan
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Fiction Kaplan
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A collection that includes both early and later stories follows an unforgettable cast of characters that are captured in all of their forceful presence and singularity, their foolishness and wisdom, and their venality and nobility.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Beanlan
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Fiction Beanlan
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Beanlan
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Fiction Beanlan
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Beanlan
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Fiction Beanlan
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the apartment above their bakery. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again...
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Chabon
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CD AUDIO Fiction Chabon
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Chabon
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Fiction Chabon
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Chabon
1 available
Fiction Chabon
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Chabon
1 available
Fiction Chabon
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington...
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington...
8) Kaddish.com
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction England
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Fiction England
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction England
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Fiction England
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction England
1 available
Fiction England
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Green Hills - Adult Large Print
Fiction England Large Type
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Fiction England Large Type
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Main Library - Adult Large Print
Fiction England Large Type
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Fiction England Large Type
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"The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father. Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews"--Publisher.
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Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor. Her latest work, gathered in this stunning collection of twenty new stories, is an occasion for celebration.
Pearlman writes with warmth...
Pearlman writes with warmth...
10) On division
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Goldblo
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Fiction Goldblo
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Goldblo
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Fiction Goldblo
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Through one woman's life at a moment of surprising change, the award-winning author Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn's Chasidic community. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania,...
11) Antiquities
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ozick
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Fiction Ozick
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ozick
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Fiction Ozick
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"Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with a description of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall , between the subtle anti-semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family history--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir Flinders...
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Henkin
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Fiction Henkin
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Henkin
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Fiction Henkin
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Henkin
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Fiction Henkin
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"When Pru Steiner met and married Spence Robin--her dazzling young hotshot English professor at Columbia--she thought she knew what she was signing up for. But thirty years later, when Spence develops early-onset Alzheimer's, the peaceful (if ambivalent) life Pru has built for herself begins to crumble. Spence is no longer the Great Man she fell in love with, and as his needs become more pronounced, Pru finds herself short on money, overwhelmed by...
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14) Call it sleep
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Roth
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Fiction Roth
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Roth
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Fiction Roth
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Roth
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Fiction Roth
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First published in 1934, and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, this is a novel of Jewish life full of the pain and honesty of family relationships.
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Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again.
Whether writing about the love (and conflict) between parents and children or between husband and wife, or about the struggles of aging single mothers or disheartened
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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,...
17) The Middlesteins
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Attenbe
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Fiction Attenbe
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Attenbe
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Fiction Attenbe
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Two siblings with very different personalities attempt to take control of their mother's food obsession and massive weight gain to save her life after their father walks out and leaves her reeling in the Chicago suburbs.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Brodess
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Fiction Brodess
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Brodess
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Fiction Brodess
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Brodess
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Fiction Brodess
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"Dr. Toby Fleishman wakes up each morning surrounded by women. Women who are self-actualized and independent and know what they want--and, against all odds, what they want is Toby. Who knew what kind of life awaited him once he finally extracted himself from his nightmare of a marriage? Who knew that there were women out there who would actually look at him with softness and desire? But just as the winds of his optimism are beginning to pick up, they're...
19) Disobedience
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Inglewood - Adult Fiction
Fiction Alderma
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Fiction Alderma
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Alderma
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Fiction Alderma
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Thompson Lane - Adult Fiction
Fiction Alderma
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Fiction Alderma
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"For Ronit Krushka, thirty-two and single, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Orthodox Judaism is a suffocating culture she fled long ago. When she learns that her estranged father, the preeminent rabbi of the London Orthodox Jewish community in which she was raised, has died, she must return home for the first time in years. There, amid the traditional ebb and flow of the community, Ronit reminds herself of her dual mission: to mourn and to...
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From bestselling and award-winning author Alice Mattison comes a breathtaking new novel following two best friends from Brooklyn, exploring the way in which the world and their lives change over the course of the 20th century. The deft literary touch that readers have grown to love in novels such as Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn and The Book Borrower, as well as story collections such as In Case We're Separated, combine in a marvelous narrative...