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Author
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and her former lover Avram. Avram served in the army alongside...
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen. An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a slave-trading ancestor, only to be imprisoned under a new law barring successive generations from profiting off the proceeds of slavery. But before departing from Tel Aviv, the protagonist falls in love with Lucile, a mysterious African migrant...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
479 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a controversial American priest is elected pope, archaeologist Jack Cane and an Israeli agent must find a mysterious Dead Sea Scroll which references two messiahs, a prophecy which is causing a political and religious crisis and placing their lives in danger.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of People of the Book and March. With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Now, Brooks takes on one of literature's richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. Peeling away the myth to bring David...
5) The liar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning author of Waking Lions comes a novel about how one lie can change everything, when a teenaged girl's scream--and the false assumption that comes from it--radiates through a street, a neighborhood, and a city, and turns lives upside down.
Author
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story. Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death camp in Nazi Germany: Auschwitz. Livia, Magda, and Cibi have clung together, nearly died from starvation and overwork, and the brutal...
7) The teacher
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"No one knew the story of Elsa Weiss. She was a respected English teacher at a Tel Aviv high school, but she remained aloof and never tried to befriend her students. No one ever encountered her outside of school hours. She was a riddle, and yet the students sensed that they were all she had. When Elsa killed herself by jumping off the roof of her apartment building, she remained as unknown as she had been during her life. Thirty years later, the narrator...
8) Forest dark
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One of America's most important novelists (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals, an older lawyer and a young novelist, whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert. Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Merle and Pearl, still in the clutches of their squirrelnapper, ride on a talking donkey, Dusty, from Nazareth to Ein Karem while Dr. Gomez and Michael follow their trail.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In AD 30, Tasmin encounters a wedding guest who turns water into the finest wine ever tasted in Cana. But when her twin brother, Thomas, impulsively chooses to follow the Teacher from Nazareth, she decides to follow the group and do whatever she must to bring her brother home"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The poignant, whimsically imaginative stories in Omer Friedlander's debut transport readers to the narrow limestone alleyways of Jerusalem, the desolate beauty of the Negev Desert, and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa. Across the sharply drawn borders that divide them, Friedlander's characters, often outsiders or even outcasts, are haunted by the past, or by the promise of a future that they can see but often cannot reach. A divorced con artist...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
370 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Yeshua of Nazareth has two sisters: Damaris, married to a wealthy merchant's son, and Pheodora, married to a simple shepherd from Bethlehem. When Pheodora's husband suffers an unexpected reversal of fortune and is thrown into debtor's prison, she returns to Nazareth, where she pins her hopes on two she-goats who should give birth to spotless white kids that would be perfect for the upcoming Yom Kippur sacrifice. In the eighteen months between the...
Author
Publisher
Revell
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"King Solomon was wealthy and wise beyond measure. He could--and did--have anything he wanted, including many women from many lands. But for all his wisdom, did he or the women in his life ever find what they searched for all of their lives? In this engrossing novel, you'll find yourself whisked away to ancient Israel, where you'll meet Solomon and four of the women he loved: Naamah the desert princess, Abishag the shepherdess, Siti the daughter...
Author
Publisher
Flux
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (257 pages)
Language
English
Description
During the summer between her junior and senior year of high school, spoiled Chicagoan Amy Nelson-Barak volunteers for Israeli military boot camp when she learns that her boyfriend, a commando in the Israeli Defense Force, will be at the same military base.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (234 pages)
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Amy Nelson is not thrilled about leaving her friends and the shopping malls when her estranged father takes her to Israel for a summer vacation. She especially does not want to live in a small house with family members she has never met. But when it comes time to return to America, Amy realizes just how important the trip has been.
17) Jezebel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"With a bold voice reminiscent of Madeline Miller's Circe, a stunning reimagining of the story of a fierce princess from Tyre and her infamous legacy Jezebel was born into the world howling. She intends to leave it the same way. When Jezebel learns she can't be a king like her father simply because she's a girl, she vows never to become someone's decorative wife, nameless and lost to history. At fifteen she's married off, despite her protests, to...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
417 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When an Israeli tech executive disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red at his side, logic dictates youthful indiscretion rael is on a state of high alert nonetheless. And for Commissaire Léger of the Paris Police Force, all coincidences are suspect. When a second young Israeli from the flight is kidnapped, this time at gunpoint from his hotel room, his suspicions are confirmed--and a diplomatic crisis looms. As the race to...








