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Englander, Nathan
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The celebrated Pulitzer finalist and prize-winning author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank delivers his best work yet, a streamlined comic masterpiece about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father. Larry is the...
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The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother
McBride, James
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From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation....
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Last summer at the Golden Hotel
Friedland, Elyssa
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In its heyday, The Golden Hotel was the crown jewel of the hotter-than-hot Catskills vacation scene. For more than sixty years, the Goldman and Weingold families presided over this glamorous resort which served as a second home for well-heeled guests and celebrities. But the Catskills are not what...
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Fleishman is in trouble
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the National Book AwardLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie MedalLonglisted for the ABIA Awards 2020Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle/John Leonard Award for Best First BookTHE SUNDAY...
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The immortalists
Benjamin, Chloe
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post * NPR * Entertainment Weekly * Real Simple * Marie Claire * New York Public Library * <...
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Inside, outside : a novel
Wouk, Herman
Paper Book
From the world of faith to the world of show business, the theater of war to the theater of presidential politics. Traces one Jewish familys adventures on the way to the American dream. Illustrates the clash between the "inside" of tradition and religion, and the "outside" of the glittering success.
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Tell me how this ends well : a novel
Levinson, David
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Why is tonight different from all other nights? Tonight we kill dad. In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their...
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Farrell Covington and the limits of style
Rudnick, Paul
Paper Book
"A case study in elegant, honest tragicomedy...by the genuinely hilarious Paul Rudnick" (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author) that follows the decades-long, rule-breaking romance between the son of one of America's wealthiest families and a middle-class aspiring...
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Among the living
Rabb, Jonathan
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Set amid the backdrop of America's post-war south, Among The Living grapples with questions of identity and belonging, and steps beyond the Jewish experience as it situates Yitzhak Goldah's story during the last gasp of the Jim Crow era. Yitzhak begins to find echoes of his own experience in the...
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Those who save us
Blum, Jenna.
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A New York Times Bestseller.For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when they were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old...
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The color of water : a black man's tribute to his white mother
McBride, James
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From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation....
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Last summer at the Golden Hotel
Friedland, Elyssa
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In its heyday, The Golden Hotel was the crown jewel of the hotter-than-hot Catskills vacation scene. For more than sixty years, the Goldman and Weingold families presided over this glamorous resort which served as a second home for well-heeled guests and celebrities. But the Catskills are not what...
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The immortalists
Benjamin, Chloe
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post * NPR * Entertainment Weekly * Real Simple * Marie Claire * New York Public Library * <...
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