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A city called July
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Howard Engel |
When Rabbi Meltzer and the President of Grantham's synagogue knock on Benny's office door, they aren't looking to sell raffle tickets. Of that much, he's sure. They need his help in tracking down a m… |
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Memory book
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Howard Engel |
Recovering in a Toronto hospital from a serious blow to the head, private investigator Benny Cooperman struggles with memory loss and a condition that has rendered him able to write but unable to rea… |
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Carry me across the water
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Ethan Canin |
"August Kleinman is told by his mother to "take the advice of no one" as the Nazi party rises to power around them in Hamburg. With these words to guide him, young August escapes to America, where he… |
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Little faith
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Simon, Michael |
In the wake of a religious zealot's conspiracy regarding an oil heiress's political plans, Austin detective Dan Reles teams up with Sergeant Cate Mora for a case that is complicated by a wrongful arr… |
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The prophet of Tenth Street
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Tsipi Keller |
http://www.headbutler.com/shorttakes/brief-prophet-tenth-street
In Brief: "The Prophet of Tenth Street"
By JESSE KORNBLUTH
Published: Mar 27, 2012
Tsipi Keller and I were on a literary committe… |
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Herzog
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Saul Bellow |
In Herzog Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption. This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great s… |
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Love and Other Games of Chance
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Lee Siegel |
"The fantastic and flamboyant hero of Siegel's enchantingly playful new novel, Love and Other Games of Chance, is Isaac Schlossberg, circus performer, entertainer, and world traveler. The son of Jewi… |
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A serious man
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Ethan Coen |
It is 1967 and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him since she has fallen in love with one of his more … |
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Schmuck
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Seth Kushner |
A semi-autobiographical novel anthology about one schmuck's quest for love and the meaning of life in New York City. |
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Boro Park, Vegas, and all the in-betweens
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Sheldon Sid Brodkin |
A novel about one Harry "Bull" Farber, who was born in Boro Park, New York, to Jewish parents, and ended up in Las Vegas, Nevada, running a casino. His story includes his early years, a time in footb… |
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Navigating the course
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David Fanshel |
"David Fanshel was born in New York City in 1923, the third child of Russian Jewish parents. As a teenager in the midst of the Depression, David watched his father struggle to support the family as a… |
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Angels all around
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Alice Burnette Greene |
God has a plan for two special angels who are sent to live as humans in the world. Kenisha Brown, endowed with the gifts of healing and great compassion, must meet and marry fellow angel Michael LInd… |
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The big silence
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Stuart M. Kaminsky |
Once a college football star, Bill Hanrahan has had a hard time of it ever since his bad knees kept him out of the pros. He became a homicide detective with the unfortunate reputation of losing witne… |
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Green
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Benjamin Zucker |
"When it was published last year, The New Times Book Review hailed Blue as "at once a spiritual challenge and a gorgeous typographical object." With Green Benjamin Zucker continues the challenge and … |
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Blessings
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Avrum B. Organick |
"In the mid-1950s, when a young Jewish doctor and a Navajo girl meet, their love and eventual marriage bring into conflict the differing world-views of the two societies from which they come. Togethe… |
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Total Recall
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Sara Paretsky |
Total Recall follows the Chicago P.I. on a road that winds back more than fifty years — and into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets, and harrowing retribution.
For V.I., the … |
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Inside, Outside
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Herman Wouk |
**Herman Wouk's classic novel moves on from the grand themes which have won him international acclaim - war, the fate of nations, and the indomitable spirit of man - to the quest for identity, in the… |
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Everyman
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Philip A. Roth |
"The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his… |
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I married a communist
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Philip A. Roth |
Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck lighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer… |
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Ulysses
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James Joyce |
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now kno… |
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