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Book cover for The assignment.
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"When their favorite teacher tells them they must participate in a debate about the Holocaust--arguing for the Nazis--Logan march and Cade Crawford are horrified. They can't believe Mr. Bartley would seriously expect anyone to craft an argument supporting the genocide of the Jewish people, even hypothetically. Logan and Cade decide they must take a stand against an assignment that fuels intolerance and discrimination."--
Book cover for How to excavate a heart.
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Snowy weather and fish fossils help bring together two Jewish college freshmen spending winter break in Washington, D.C. "It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally, with her mom's subaru. Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani's plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her monthlong paleoichthyology internship. She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about how she was unceremoniously...
Book cover for The marriage box.
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When Casey gets into trouble hanging out with the wrong crowd in New Orleans, her parents decide to move back to their Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn--where, swayed by the community's Middle Eastern values and her parents' traditional wishes, Casey marries Michael at eighteen, thinking she can adjust to Sephardic ways. But can she? Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging...
Book cover for The matzah ball.
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When her publisher insists that she write a Hanukkah romance, Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish woman with a secret career as a Christmas romance novelist, unexpectedly finds inspiration when she encounters a childhood acquaintance at the Matzah Ball, a Jewish music celebration on the last night of Hanukkah. For a decade Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt has hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her...
Book cover for Sick kids in love.
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Isabel has one rule: no dating. All the women in her family are heartbreakers, and she's destined to become one, too, if she's not careful. But when she goes to the hospital for her RA infusion, she meets a gorgeous, foul-mouthed boy who has her rethinking the no-dating rule and ready to risk everything. Aleksander is chronically ill, too, and there's a softer side underneath all his jokes. Isabel finds herself unraveling the secrets of a real person,...
Book cover for When the angels left the old country.
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"Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way,...