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Nine-year-old Eliza Naumann is considered an unspectacular child--until she surprises everyone by winning her school spelling bee. But just as she begins to shine, her family starts falling apart.

"In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters' great-grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the lethal agent used in the Third Reich's gas chambers--inspired...

Asher Lev, born into a devout Jewish family and community, struggles to reconcile his burning need to create art with the restrictions and expectations placed on him by his faith and his people.

For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti -- the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in the Iranian town of Kermanshah -- cannot have the one thing he desires above all: a son. His young wife Rakhel, trapped in an oppressive marriage at a time when a woman's worth is measured by her fertility, is made desperate by her failure to conceive, and grows jealous and vindictive.

"Jill Wasserstrom, a studious and idealistic eighth-grader at Chicago's Boone Elementary School, is preparing to defend the Ayatollah Khomeini in a school debate, and then sabotage her Bat Mitzvah.". "Her best friend, Muley Wills, is in live with her, though he can't understand her obsession with Iran. He himself is obsessed with a figure of his imagination: a long-lost cousin, the alluring Soviet defector Peachy Moskowitz, the unpredictable and...

Welcome to turn-of-the-century America, where Scott Joplin's ragtime sets the beat and passionate vitality sets the tone. Historical figures such as J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, and Evelyn Nesbitt mingle with the fictional characters of a Lower East Side Jewish peddler, a black musician from Harlem, and a rebellious young middle-class WASP in this classic novel.

The orphan Anna leaves Poland for the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, and after choosing to become a domestic, she marries and begins to guide her family through the next decades.

`When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the thirty-third president of the United states, he negotiated a cordial...

"1939: Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the “Paris of the East.” Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the Shanghai Ghetto. Yet soon the realities of war prove to be too much for these close friends as they are torn apart. 2016: Fleeing London...

Here is the classic novel about the unlikely friendship that develops between two boys in 1940s Brooklyn. Reuven Malther is a secular Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny Saunders is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe. Together they navigate the emotional terrain of adolescence and the demands of family, and a crisis of faith when stories of the Holocause begin to emerge on the shores of America. The Chosen is a profound,...