May is Jewish-American Heritage Month

Titles to help celebrate and learn more about Jewish-American Heritage.

Updated May 8, 2025
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I am David
Holm, Anne
Paper Book
'You must get away tonight,' the man had told him. David escapes from the concentration camp where he has spent his entire life and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone - who can he trust? What will await him? And all the while, how can he be sure that they won't catch up with him ...<...
Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
Gottlieb, Lori
Paper Book
A TIME magazine Must-Read Book of the Year Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Timesbestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she). ...
Yearbook
Rogen, Seth
Paper Book
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people's searches...
White bird : a novel
Perl, Erica S.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Wonder comes White Bird- an unforgettable Second World War story about bravery, friendship and the power of kindness. Now a major film starring Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, Bryce Gheisar, Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson. Sara...
Fleishman is in trouble
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Paper Book
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...
Long Island compromise
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Paper Book
'Everything I was dreaming it would be - shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS'Both enjoyable and funny while also substantive and profound' CATHY RENTZENBRINKFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes Long Island...
The woman with the blue star /
Jenoff, Pam
Paper Book
"An emotional novel that you will never forget." --Lisa Scottoline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eternal From the author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship during World War II -- Now a New York...
The woman with the blue star
Jenoff, Pam
Paper Book
"An emotional novel that you will never forget." --Lisa Scottoline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eternal From the author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship during World War II -- Now a New York...
The hidden palace : a novel of the golem and the jinni
Wecker, Helene
Paper Book
"Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope." (Buzzfeed) "A layered novel of many complex characters...To keep their worlds safe, Chava and Ahmad must access both their greatest supernatural powers and their...
The Netanyahus :
Cohen, Joshua,
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2021 A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 ...
The book of magic
Hoffman, Alice
Paper Book
'Full of Hoffman's bewitching and lucid prose and vivid characters, The Book of Magic is ultimately about the very human magic of family and love and actions that echo through generations... it casts a spell'  --Matt Haig THE STUNNING, UNFORGETTABLE CONCLUSION...
The book of magic
Hoffman, Alice
Paper Book
'Full of Hoffman's bewitching and lucid prose and vivid characters, The Book of Magic is ultimately about the very human magic of family and love and actions that echo through generations... it casts a spell'  --Matt Haig THE STUNNING, UNFORGETTABLE CONCLUSION...
The Museum of Extraordinary Things : a novel
Hoffman, Alice.
Paper Book
Mesmerizing and illuminating, Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things is the story of an electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the twentieth century. Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the...
The Museum of Extraordinary Things : a novel
Hoffman, Alice
Paper Book
Mesmerizing and illuminating, Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things is the story of an electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the twentieth century. Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the...
Nightbird
Hoffman, Alice
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Practical Magic, comes a beautiful spellbinding tale of magic, friendship and an ancient curse. Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumoured to hide a monster -...
We can't keep meeting like this
Solomon, Rachel Lynn
Paper Book
"Impossible not to love." --Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this effervescent...
My own words
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion" (Harper...
The female persuasion /
Wolitzer, Meg
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller   "A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." --Bustle "Ultra-readable." --Vogue    ...
Eating animals /
Foer, Jonathan Safran,
Paper Book
Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name. Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life...
A reason to see you again a novel
Attenberg, Jami
Paper Book
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store : a novel
McBride, James
Paper Book
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * A NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store /
McBride, James,
Paper Book
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * A NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store : a novel
McBride, James
Paper Book
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * A NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S...

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