Jewish Heritage Month for Adults

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Updated May 1, 2026
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All the shining people : stories
Friedman, Kathy
Paper Book
Finalist, 2023 Trillium Book Award Finalist, Writers Union of Canada 2023 Daunta Gleed Literary Award Finalist, 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home. All...
The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Richler, Mordecai
Paper Book
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the novel that established Mordecai Richler as one of the world’s best comic writers. Growing up in the heart of Montreal’s Jewish ghetto, Duddy Kravitz is obsessed with his grandfather’s saying, “A man without land is nothing.&...
BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2026
Paper Book
"Combines both emerging and established voices for a fascinating glimpse at the most exciting short fiction coming out of this country."--Open Book Selected and introduced by Zsuzsi Gartner, Best Canadian Stories 2026 provides a distinctive sample of the best Canadian short fiction...
Bloom: Letters on Girlhood
Breit, Nicole
Paper Book
A raw, searching and intimate memoir, Bloom: Letters on Girlhood is a conversation between two acclaimed writers about silence and shame and what it means to come of age as young women. Over the course of two and a half years, authors Claire Sicherman (Imprint: A Memoir of Trauma in...
Broken dawn blessings : poems
Sol, Adam
Paper Book
Trillium Book Award-winning poet Adam Sol's newest collection is made up of poems that are loosely linked to the traditional Jewish morning prayers, the Birkhot haShachar, which try to find moments of blessing in the midst of personal and public pain, shame, and worry How do we...
But I live : three stories of child survivors of the Holocaust
Schallié, Charlotte
Paper Book
Shortlisted - 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Reality-Based Work. An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the...
Daughters of the occupation : a novel
Sanders, Shelly
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Shortlisted for Best Crime Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada Award Based on a true story, this powerful novel is set in Latvia's capital during the horrific Rumbula massacre when 30,000 Jews were slaughtered over two days in 1941 When Miriam and her...
A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News
Fagan, Cary
Paper Book
Multiple award-winning author Cary Fagan displays his extraordinary range and talent in this propulsive new story collection that is by turns sensitive, surprising, and outrageously funny. A disgruntled border in 1970s London watches an affair develop between his landlady and a young...
Handwringers
Mintz, Sarah
Paper Book
"I know a girl with a large head who tells only sad stories. She tells me that her stories are not sad because there are other people with worse stories and though this is true, it strikes me as the saddest thing she could say." A motley collection of characters populate these short, short...
How to share an egg : a true story of hunger, love, and plenty
Reichert, Bonny
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER GLOBE & MAIL GLOBE 100: BEST BOOKS OF 2025 CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NON-FICTION 2025 NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025 "I started crying on page one; a few pages later I burst into laughter. This beautifully written ...
Immigrant City : stories
Bezmozgis, David
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Award-winning author David Bezmozgis's first story collection in more than a decade, hailed by the Toronto Star as "intelligent, funny, unfailingly sympathetic" In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre...
Let it destroy you : a novel
Lye, Harriet Alida
Paper Book
Winner, Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction Vine National Canadian Jewish Book Awards (Fiction), Shortlist Inspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed...
Nothing the same, everything haunted : the ballad of Motl the cowboy
Barwin, Gary
Paper Book
A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize....
The octopus has three hearts : short stories
Rose, Rachel
Paper Book
The Octopus Has Three Hearts offers dispatches from the margins of human society. These are stories about damaged people who have committed, witnessed or survived terrible acts and who must make their way in an unforgiving world. From a goat farmer to a suburban adulterer, a violent...
Our darkest night : a novel of Italy and the Second World War
Robson, Jennifer
Paper Book
To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer's wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson--a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II....
Songs for the brokenhearted : a novel
Tsabari, Ayelet
Paper Book
A young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother's secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter in the debut novel of an award-winning literary voice 1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have...
The student
Fagan, Cary
Paper Book
A finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award The Student is a portrait of a life in two snapshots. It's 1957 and Miriam Moscowitz is starting her final year of university with unwavering ambition. She is a serious and passionate student of literature who studies hard,...
Talking to strangers
Tregebov, Rhea
Paper Book
Talking to Strangers is a book of bracing encounters. Throughout her four decades as poet, Rhea Tregebov has displayed an uncommon eye for the mysteries of ordinary life--moments where, as she writes, "[t]he simplest things / elude me." This gift is brought to brilliant effect in her...
You are not what we expected
Ludwig, Sidura
Paper Book
This stunningly intimate collection of stories is an exquisite portrait of a Jewish community -- the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there -- that illuminates the unexpected ways we remain connected during times of change. When Uncle Isaac moves...

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