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Picking Sabras With Meir Shalev
In an excerpt from his new book, My Wild Garden, renowned author Meir Shalev shares humorous reminiscences of gathering sabras and ruminates on the link between the cactus and the modern Israeli.

In an excerpt from his book ‘My Wild Garden,’ author Meir Shalev talks about gathering sabras and the link between the cactus and the modern Israeli.
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Judy Blume
Blume’s ability to translate childhood empathy onto the page, to articulate with directness and compassion just how her readers are feeling and thinking, has earned her a loyal fan base for 50 years.

Blume’s ability to translate childhood empathy onto the page, to articulate with directness and compassion, has earned her a loyal fan base for 50 years.

Beginning at Pesah and ending five months later, this domestic tale offers a heartfelt take on the trials and tribulations of an upper-middle-class Jewish family from Connecticut.

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Ways to Disappear: A Novel

by Alan M. Tigay

Idra Novey, who renders Spanish and Portuguese fiction into English, would like us to know more about translators, so she has stepped into the more visible role of

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Should Have Played Poker

by Zelda Shluker

In Debra Goldstein's new mystery, a group of Mah Jongg players and a young lawyer join forces to solve two murders.

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Behind God’s Back

by Zelda Shluker

Anti-Semitism and community ties complicate the case in the second installment of a Scandinavian series following Jewish detective Ariel Kafka of Helsinki's Violent Crimes Unit.