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Snow in August
 

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Snow in August
Set in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood in 1947, this poignant tale revolves around two of the most endearing characters in recent fiction: an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a refugee from Prague.

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LA Casa En Mango Street / The House on Mango Street
 

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LA Casa En Mango Street / The House on Mango Street
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of its initial publication, and with a new introduction by the author, here is Sandra Cisnero's greatly admired and bestselling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.

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Stone Kiss
 

Stone Kiss

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Stone Kiss
LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, rush to New York when one of Peter's relatives is killed and another goes missing, and they find themselves in the seedier areas of the city, where their survival is placed in the hands of a vengeful lone wolf. Reprint.

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Outer Banks
 

Outer Banks

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Outer Banks

Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig -- they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship -- they spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years...to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel-betrayal that shaped the four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the...Outer Banks.

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Fifth Chinese Daughter
 

Fifth Chinese Daughter

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Fifth Chinese Daughter
The memoirs of a young woman relate how she and her fmaily manage to keep their Chinese heritage alive while adapting to the American way of life.

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The Rag Doll Plagues
 

The Rag Doll Plagues

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The Rag Doll Plagues
The time-line is cyclical and eternal, as a doctor and his descendants are condemned to enter into an ever-consuming battle with a mysterious plague in three separate moments in history: colonial Mexico, contemporary California and the next century in a newly emerged country. Power relationships and the social fabric of three settings are intricately detailed by Morales in his fashioning of a history which at the same time is seen through lenses of the magic and supernatural. The magical realists of Latin America have their Chicano inheritor and his name is Alejandro Morales!

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Baumgartners Bombay
 

Baumgartners Bombay

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Baumgartners Bombay
A "beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story" (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he flees Nazi Germany -- and his Jewish heritage -- for India, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end. In this tale of a man who, "like a figure in a Greek tragedy . . . seems to elude his destiny" (NEW LEADER), Desai's "capacious intelligence, her unsentimental compassion" (NEW REPUBLIC) reach their full height.

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Snow in August
 

Snow in August

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Snow in August
It was an unusual friendship: 11-year-old Michael Devlin, an Irish Catholic from Brooklyn, and Judah Hirsch, a rabbi and refugee from Prague, meet during a swirling blizzard on the Saturday morning. For Michael, Hirsch is an extraordinary window to ancient times and foreign lands; for the Rabbi, Michael is an encyclopedia of cultural knowledge of his new land. In baseball, the two find a common love, but when some anti-Semitic hoodlums threaten them with violence, the two must look for a miracle in a most unlikely place.

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The Atlas
 

The Atlas

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The Atlas
Set in locales from Phnom Penh to Sarajevo, from Jerusalem to New York, and provocatively combining autobiography with invention, these 53 interconnected tales examine poverty, violence, and loss, even as they celebrate the beauty of landscape, the thrill of the alien, and the infinitely precious pain of love.

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Caravans
 

Caravans

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Caravans
In this romantic adventure of wild Afghanistan, master storyteller James Michener mixes the allure of the past with the dangers of today. After an impetuous American girl, Ellen Jasper, marries a young Afghan engineer, her parents hear no word from her. Although she wants freedom to do as she wishes, not even she is sure what that means. In the meantime, she is as good as lost in that wild land, perhaps forever...."An extraordinary novel....Brilliant."THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Zapata
 

Zapata

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Zapata
The basis for the Oscar-nominated screenplay Viva Zapata!, this newly-discovered narrative by John Steinbeck explores the conflict between creative dissent and intolerant militancy exhibited in Emiliano Zapata, as he championed the cause of the peasants during the Mexican Revolution.

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The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
 

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon

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The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
From the award-winning author of "Where the Heart Is" comes the story of a down-and-out cafe owner, Caney, who opens his restaurant after returning from Vietnam in a wheelchair. Then one day Vena Takes Horse, a vibrant young women, enters the cafe, changes the lives of the regulars forever, and, eventually, captures Caney's heart.

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21
 

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21
The story of New York's '21' Club is the story of American glamor in the 20th century--from its birth as a Greenwich Village speakeasy to its move to midtown during Prohibition to the tough days of the Great Depression and the swinging go-go years. of photos.

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Menachem's Seed
 

Menachem's Seed

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Menachem's Seed
In Menachem's Seed, Carl Djerassi, world-renowned scientist and inventor of the birth-control pill, brings us a new novel that explores the human--and passionate--side of science. Melanie Laidlaw and Menachem Dvir meet at a series of international conferences where jet-setting scientists come together to discuss the global implications of their discoveries. Melanie runs a foundation that awards grants for innovations in reproductive technology; Menachem is an infertile nuclear engineer and a married man. Naturally, they fall in love. What follows is a story of sexual steam, stolen seed, and religious conversion--a very modern romance that hinges on a cutting-edge scientific breakthrough. As Melanie and Menachem discover, what science makes possible, only two hearts can make right.

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Busted Scotch
 

Busted Scotch

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Busted Scotch
These 35 short stories--most published in this country for the first time--bring to mind, "at various moments, such diverse masterpieces . . . as James Joyce's "Dubliners" . . . and the parables of Kafka" ("The Village Voice").

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The Princes of Ireland
 

The Princes of Ireland

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The Princes of Ireland
A fictional account of the legend of Cuchulainn recreates such events as the mission of Saint Patrick, the Viking invasion, the trickery of Henry II that led to England's establishment in Ireland, the failed rebellion of 1798, and the Great Famine. By the author of Sarum and London. Read by John Keating. Book available.
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Ceremony
 

Ceremony

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Ceremony
"Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort and resolution becomes a ritual--a curative ceremony that defeats his despair.
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Cause Celeb
 

Cause Celeb

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Cause Celeb
Rosie Richardson, formerly a member of a swank London crowd, decides to escape her glitzy lifestyle and run away to a refugee camp in Africa where she will eventually use her connections in her former life to help the starving refugees.
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Battle Born
 

Battle Born

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Battle Born
Patrick McLanahan is back — and this time he faces his most difficult challenge. He must pull together a team of aggressive, maverick young pilots to face a world on the brink of massive nuclear conflict.

It begins with a joint U.S.-Japanese-South Korean mock bombing raid. But the South Korean fighter pilots don't stick to the script. Instead, they race across the border into North Korea to support a massive people's revolt against the Communists.

Virtually overnight, the fledgling United Korea is the world's newest nuclear power, igniting a fuse that threatens to blow Asia apart and trigger World War III. Only McLanahan has the top-secret aviation technology and the brash young heroes to stop the coming inferno — if he can get them to stop fighting each other and start fighting as a team before the world is reduced to cinders!
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Giuseppe Rocco
 

Giuseppe Rocco

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Giuseppe Rocco
In a penetrating look at our national myth of rags-to-riches success Ronald Ruiz tells the gripping the rise, unification and decline of two very American families named Rocco and Martinez. Giuseppe Rocco, an Italian immigrant, raises himself from nothing to improbable wealth and political influence in northern California through his self-made scavenger business and a series of shrewd land investments. Rocco's money and power allow him to possess a bride of high birth and breeding. Although to her he will never be more than a garbage collector, it is through their loveless marriage that Giuseppe Rocco becomes the patriarch of a dynasty of three sons. Thirteen-year-old Sally Martinez abruptly becomes the matriarch of her family of six younger brothers and sisters when their drug-addicted mother disappears. Over the next several years, Sally manages to keep her family fed, clothed and unbroken through a steely determination equal to that of Giuseppe Rocco. When 19-year-old Sally elopes with 18-year-old Joey Rocco, Giuseppe's oldest son, Rocco's world undergoes a subtle change. But only as he gradually recognizes his daughter-in-law's considerable strengths does he begin to see her as a means to perpetuate his empire. The result is a subtle recasting of America's Horatio Alger myth by "a talented, painstaking and intelligent writer" (The Houston Post).
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Children of the Ghetto
 

Children of the Ghetto

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Children of the Ghetto
In its first appearance in 1892, Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto created a sensation in both England and America, becoming the first Anglo-Jewish bestseller and establishing Zangwill as the literary voice of Anglo-Jewry. A novel set in late nineteenth-century London, Children of the Ghetto gave an inside look into an immigrant community that was almost as mysterious to the more established middle-class Jews of Britain as to the non-Jewish population, providing a compelling analysis of a generation caught between the ghetto and modern British life. This volume brings back to print the 1895 edition of Children of the Ghetto, the latest American version known to have been corrected by the author. Meri-Jane Rochelson places the novel in proper context by providing a biographical, historical, and critical introduction; a bibliography of primary and secondary sources; and notes on the text, making this ground-breaking novel accessible to a new generation of readers, both Jewish and non-Jewish alike.
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Big League Dreams
 

Big League Dreams

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Big League Dreams
The first two novels in Allen Hoffman's critically acclaimed series "Small Worlds" are now available in paperback. The first volume, Small Worlds, takes place in 1903 and introduces the wondrous rebbe of Krimsk, a small Hasidic settlement in Eastern Europe. Secluded in his study for the past five years, the beloved rebbe suddenly emerges on the eve of Tisha B'Av, the holiday commemorating the destruction of the holy Temple in Jerusalem. His congregants are overjoyed to see him, but their joy is to be short-lived, for this holiday at the dawn of the 20th century will be marked by strange and momentous events that will change their lives forever.
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Big League Dreams
 

Big League Dreams

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Big League Dreams
In St. Louis, it is the summer of 1920 and the day is the Sabbath, but there is little rest for the Jews from Krimsk and less reverence for the wondrous Krimsker Rebbe, who led them to the New World seventeen years before. The rebbe's former hasidim have embraced America to discover that the vision of "gold in the streets" evokes larceny in the heart. Matti Sternweiss, the ungainly, studious child wonder in Krimsk, now the cerebral catcher for the St. Louis Browns, is scheming to fix Saturday's game against the pennant-contending Detroit Tigers. To preserve the purity of the national pastime, the chief of police fatefully inspires his loyal disciple, Boruch Levi, to bring Matti before the Krimsker Rebbe on the Sabbath. Recluse and wonder-worker, messianist and pragmatist, the Krimsker Rebbe navigates the muddy Mississippi River, haunted by a recurring prophetic vision of Pharaoh's blood red Nile. In the final, decisive innings with Matti crouched behind home plate, it will come down to Ty Cobb versus the kabbalah.
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One-Way Ticket
 

One-Way Ticket

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One-Way Ticket
Zinovy Zinik is an important figure among the new Russian writers who have come to the fore in recent years and brought back in varying ways the sense of passion that so informs their great literary heritage. Set in Kiev, Vienna, Israel, Portugal, England, and Moscow, the stories of "One-way Ticket" are concerned with the particular, and peculiar, world of the emigré and depict the idiosyncratic nature of encounters and the sense of displacement. "No one in his right mind leaves his own country," writes Zinik in an afterword, "unless he is forced to do so. I wasn't forced to leave Russia: I must then either have not been in my right mind or ceased to regard Russia as my own country." This book is Zinik's personal testament to the years following that departure.
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They Come and Knock on the Door
 

They Come and Knock on the Door

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They Come and Knock on the Door
Alfonso Quijada Urías's wit, sensitivity and mordant social criticism make him the rightful literary inheritor of the legacy of Roque Dalton. This bilingual collection of poems combines wit and tenderness with social criticism.
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Crazy Love
 

Crazy Love

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Crazy Love
Traces a Cuban American child's coming of age as he examines his family's past.
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The Samaritan Treasure
 

The Samaritan Treasure

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The Samaritan Treasure
A collection of stories in settings as varied as ancient Samaria, concentration camps, Western Europe, Israel, and the American Midwest includes "Tomorrow You'll Forget," "Professor Mondshave," "The Jew of Bath," "The Samaritan Treasure," and "The Last of Rafaela"
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Plague of Dreamers, A
 

Plague of Dreamers, A

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Plague of Dreamers, A
Steve Stern returns with lyrically comic tales about the Pinch, a backwater Jewish community in Memphis, whose misbegotten citizens refer to themselves as 'the lost tribe.' Stern's dreamers are plagued by history, lust, solitude, and the extravagance of their own fevered imaginations.
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America and I
 

America and I

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America and I
A collection of twentieth-century stories by Jewish women featuring some of the best short story writers in American fiction. From Anzia Yezierska and Edna Ferber to Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, and Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, these writers reveal a rich, vi tal, and innovative tradition
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The Jewish War
 

The Jewish War

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The Jewish War
Set in the near future within a war-torn Israel, The Jewish War chronicles the rise to power of Jerry Goldberg, a Bronx teen who has devoted his life to hastening the arrival of the Jewish Messiah. Charismatic and ambitious, Jerry changes his name to Yehudi Hagoel and amasses a cadre of followers to help him establish and maintain the God-given boundaries of Palestine. Written with the humor and satire that have won her acclaim, Tova Reich narrates Hagoel's illicit passage to Israel, his coronation as king of secessionist Judea and Samaria, and his ultimate retreat from the Israeli armies. "With its merciless skewering of all that is ridiculous in religious fanaticism, and at the same time its sympathy for those burning with a holy vision of their land, The Jewish War succeeds marvelously". -- The New York Times Book Review
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Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted
 

Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted

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Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted
Iola Leroy, mulatto who becomes a slave when her white father dies, finds that through her maternal ancestors she is heir to a black family, searches for her true community and her real family.
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The Wide Net and Other Stories
 

The Wide Net and Other Stories

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The Wide Net and Other Stories
A collection of stories which capture the joys and sorrows of life in the deep South.
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