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A Novel

by Lore Segal ...

With a foreword by Cynthia Ozick, this semiautobiographical novel of a Jewish girl forced away from home in the face of Nazi persecution is an extraordinary tale of fortitude and survivalOn a December night in 1938, a ten-year-old girl named Lore is put on the Kindertransport, a train carrying hundreds of Jewish children out of Austria to safety from Hitler's increasingly alarming oppression. ... Read more

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With a foreword by Cynthia Ozick, this semiautobiographical novel of a Jewish girl forced away from home in the face of Nazi persecution is an extraordinary tale of fortitude and survivalOn a December night in 1938, a ten-year-old girl named Lore is put on the Kindertransport, a train carrying hundreds of Jewish children out of Austria to safety from Hitler's increasingly alarming oppression.
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Her First American

A Novel

by Lore Segal ...

Hailed by the New York Times as coming "closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel," Lore Segal stuns with this passionate love story of a refugee from Hitler's Europe and a witty, hard-drinking black intellectualFor Ilka Weissnix, everything is new. Having recently arrived in the United States, she is determined to escape the immigrant communities of New York and boards a train headed ... Read more

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Hailed by the New York Times as coming "closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel," Lore Segal stuns with this passionate love story of a refugee from Hitler's Europe and a witty, hard-drinking black intellectualFor Ilka Weissnix, everything is new. Having recently arrived in the United States, she is determined to escape the immigrant communities of New York and boards a train headed
... Read more
Still Alive

A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

by Ruth Kluger ...

Series series The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series
A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).**Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she ... Read more

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A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).**Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she
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Ladies' Lunch

and Other Stories

by Lore Segal ...

**National Jewish Book Award FinalistThe New Yorker's Best Book of the Year!"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature..."—The New York Times"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life’s final years, and if her characters are not always as wise as they think they are, Segal eyes them all with the unsentimental wisdom of a life ... Read more

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**National Jewish Book Award FinalistThe New Yorker's Best Book of the Year!"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature..."—The New York Times"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life’s final years, and if her characters are not always as wise as they think they are, Segal eyes them all with the unsentimental wisdom of a life
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Half the Kingdom

A Novel

by Lore Segal ...

*"No one writes like Segal — her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." **—***Margot Livesey*"I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor…. Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both." **—***Jennifer Egan“Lore Segal is a ... Read more

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*"No one writes like Segal — her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." **—***Margot Livesey*"I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor…. Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both." **—***Jennifer Egan“Lore Segal is a
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The Journal I Did Not Keep

New and Selected Writing

by Lore Segal ...

"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature, as this generous sampler attests."—The New York Times"Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely collection is a fine introduction to her work."—Kirkus Reviews"There are many standouts in the collection, but its single greatest strength is the ... Read more

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"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature, as this generous sampler attests."—The New York Times"Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely collection is a fine introduction to her work."—Kirkus Reviews"There are many standouts in the collection, but its single greatest strength is the
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Lucinella

by Lore Segal ...

Series series The Art of the Novella
Intelligence turns me on.Lore Segal's tour de force look at the New York literary scene was a hit when it was first released in the 1970s, winning the praise of the literary elite. John Garnder called it “magical.” William Gass said it was “witty, elegant, beautiful.” Stanley Elkin called it “a shamelessly wonderful novel, so flawless one feels civilized reading it.”It's been a cult classic ever ... Read more

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Intelligence turns me on.Lore Segal's tour de force look at the New York literary scene was a hit when it was first released in the 1970s, winning the praise of the literary elite. John Garnder called it “magical.” William Gass said it was “witty, elegant, beautiful.” Stanley Elkin called it “a shamelessly wonderful novel, so flawless one feels civilized reading it.”It's been a cult classic ever
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Still Talking

Stories

by Lore Segal ...

**"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature..."—The New York TimesIn this eagerly awaited follow-up to Ladies' Lunch, the beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal's returns with her final collection stories of the old friends who have loved and lunched together for over 40 years . . .**"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life’s ... Read more

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**"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature..."—The New York TimesIn this eagerly awaited follow-up to Ladies' Lunch, the beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal's returns with her final collection stories of the old friends who have loved and lunched together for over 40 years . . .**"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life’s
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Still Talking

Stories

by Lore Segal ...

Narrated by Christa Lewis ...

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1 hour 37 min

**"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature . . ." —**The New York TimesThe eagerly awaited follow-up to Ladies' Lunch**, beloved** New Yorker writer Lore Segal's final story collection returns with further tales of the old friends who have loved and lunched together for over forty years.**"Segal ... ... Read more

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**"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature . . ." —**The New York TimesThe eagerly awaited follow-up to Ladies' Lunch**, beloved** New Yorker writer Lore Segal's final story collection returns with further tales of the old friends who have loved and lunched together for over forty years.**"Segal ...
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Still Alive

A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

by Ruth Kluger ...

Narrated by Natasha Soudek ...

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6 hours 19 min

A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she ... Read more

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A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she
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Ladies’ Lunch

And Other Stories

by Lore Segal ...

Narrated by Callie Beaulieu ...

Unabridged

2 hours 51 min

"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature . . ." —The New York TimesBeloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal, at ninety-five years old, is a national treasure. Working at the height of her powers, in this story collection she turns her gimlet eye and compassionate humor on aging and life in the slow lane.From the master of the short ... Read more

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"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature . . ." —The New York TimesBeloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal, at ninety-five years old, is a national treasure. Working at the height of her powers, in this story collection she turns her gimlet eye and compassionate humor on aging and life in the slow lane.From the master of the short
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I Shall Live

Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds

by Henry Orenstein ...

Narrated by Henry Orenstein ...

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11 hours 37 min

I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gains power in Germany. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command. ... Read more

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I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gains power in Germany. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command.
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