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  • The Girl from Foreign

    A Memoir

    by Sadia Shepard ...
    A search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of homeFascinating and intimate , The Girl from Foreign is one woman's search for ancient family secrets that leads to an adventure in far-off lands. Sadia Shepard, the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a Muslim from Pakistan, was shocked to discover that her grandmother was a descendant of the Bene Israel, a tiny ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Ghost of Hannah Mendes

    A Novel

    by Naomi Ragen ...
    When Catherine da Costa, a wealthy Manhattan matron, learns she has only a short time to live, she realizes that her family tree will die unless she passes on its legacy and traditions to her granddaughters. But Suzanne and Francesca, beautiful young women caught up in trendy causes and ambitious careers, have no interest in the past. Catherine almost despairs until one night she is visited by the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Holy Days

    The World Of The Hasidic Family

    by Lis Harris ...
    A beloved contemporary classic, Holy Days is a personal account of New York's Hasidic community, its beliefs, its mysteries, and its encounter with secularism in the present age.Combining a historical understanding of the Hasidic movement with a journalist's discerning eye, Harris captures in rich detail the day-to-day life of this traditional and often misunderstood community. Harris chronicles ... Read more

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  • Jerusalem Maiden

    A Novel

    by Talia Carner ...
    "Truly marvellous . . . how deeply Talia Carner . . . evoke[s] Esther's faith and the complexity of the choices she faces. . . . A beautiful and timely novel." —Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street and Eva Moves the FurnitureIn the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help ha ... Read more

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  • Sotah

    A Novel

    by Naomi Ragen ...
    Beautiful, fragile Dina Reich, a young woman in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox haredi enclave, stands accused of the community's most unforgivable sin: adultery. Raised with her sisters to be an obedient daughter and a dutiful wife, Dina secretly yearned for the knowledge, romance, and excitement that she knew her circumscribed life would never satisfy. When her first romance is tragically thwarted, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Winter Vault

    by Anne Michaels ...
    Series series Vintage International
    In The Winter Vault, award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels crafts a love story of extraordinary depth and complexity, juxtaposing historic dislocations with the most intimate moments of individual lives.In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settles into a Nile River houseboat moored below the towering figures of Abu Simbel. Avery is one of the engineers responsible for moving the temple ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Sacrifice of Tamar

    A Novel

    by Naomi Ragen ...
    Tamar Finegold is twenty-one years old, the happy, beautiful bride of a rising young Rabbi in one of Brooklyn's insulated, ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. Having married the man of her dreams and taken her place as a wife—and hopefully soon-to-be mother—in her community, Tamar feels as though the world is at her feet. But her secure, predictable existence is brought to an abrupt end when she is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Tenth Song

    A Novel

    by Naomi Ragen ...
    A shattering betrayal sends a mother on a desperate journey to save her daughter and uncover the truth in this heart-wrenching novel from an international bestselling author.Abigail Samuels has no reason to feel anything but joy on the morning her life falls apart. The epitome of a successful Jewish American woman, she is married to a respected accountant and in the middle of planning her daughter ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Not Me

    A Novel

    Not Me is a remarkable debut novel that tells the dramatic and surprising stories of two men–father and son–through sixty years of uncertain memory, distorted history, and assumed identity.When Heshel Rosenheim, apparently suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, hands his son, Michael, a box of moldy old journals, an amazing adventure begins–one that takes the reader from the concentration camps of ... Read more

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  • Jephte's Daughter

    A Novel

    by Naomi Ragen ...
    The pampered daughter of a wealthy Hasidic businessman, Batsheva Ha-Levi grows up in the affluent suburbs of Los Angeles. But everything changes when she turns eighteen and finds that her loving father has made a secret vow which will shatter her life, forcing her to marry a man she hardly knows and sending her to the exotic, golden city of Jerusalem. On her wedding day, she enters a strange and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Color Me Butterfly

    A Novel Inspired by One Family's Journey from Tragedy to Triumph

    by L. Y. Marlow ...
    Inspired by a true story, Color Me Butterfly follows four generations of mothers and daughters—haunted by a common specter of domestic abuse—as they discover the strength, hope, and courage to survive.The last thing Eloise Bingham wanted was to leave the comforts of her South Carolina home and family. But at the end of World War II, the young wife follows her husband, Isaac, to Philadelphia—only ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Unchosen

    The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels

    by Hella Winston ...
    A “complex and heart-wrenchingly compelling” exploration of Hasidic Jews struggling to live within, or outside, their restrictive communities—for viewers of Unorthodox and One of Us (Boston Globe)When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way ... Read more

    $15.99 USD