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ISRAELA Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Daniel GordisHC 9780062368744 $29.99
Available NowThe first accessible yet comprehensive history of
the state of Israel from its inception to present day,from a highly esteemed public intellectual living and
writing in Jerusalem. **Includes maps and two 8 page color inserts
NO ROOM FOR SMALL DREAMSThe Decisions That Made Israel Great
Shimon PeresHC 9780062561442 $30.00
On sale 4/4/2017Shimon Peres's majestic, intimate and personal
exploration of what it took to build the state of Israel and what future generations must do to sustain it.
Over the course of six decades, Peres served twice as Israel's Prime Minister, and held every senior cabinet
position, including Foreign Minister, Minister of Defense, and Minister of Finance. As the capstone to
his career, Peres served seven years as the Ninth President of the state he helped build.
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Religion, History & Faith
THE DEVIL’S DIARYAlfred Rosenberg and the Stolen
Secrets of the Third ReichRobert Wittman
HC 9780062319012 $35.00PB 9780062319029 $18.99
On sale 3/28/2017Now in paperback, this exploration of the
private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg—Hitler’s “chief philosopher” and architect of Nazi ideology—interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its
never-before-published contents, which are contextualized by the authors (Wittman is a
New York Times bestselling author): The result is a unprecedented, page-turning narrative of
the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler’s post-invasion plans for Russia.
THE LOST BOOK OF MOSESThe Hunt for the
World's Oldest BibleChanan Tigay
HC 9780062206411 $27.99PB 9780062206428 $15.99
On sale 2/7/2017In this literary, historical
detective story Tigay goes on a quest to find evidence of
history’s famous biblical forgery and to solve the mystery of its
doomed, brilliant forger.
BLOOD AND SANDSuez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's
Campaign for PeaceAlex von Tunzelmann
HC 9780062249241 $32.50Available Now
More than 70 years after the Nazi A lively, revelatory new popular history that tells the story of both the Suez
Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956—a tale of conspiracy and
revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the
fall of the British Empire and rise of American hegemony under the heroic
leadership of President Dwight D. Eisenhower—which shaped the Middle
East and Europe we know today.
ORDINARY MENReserve Police Battalion 101 and
the Final Solution in PolandChristopher R. Browning
PB 9780062303028 $16.99On sale 2/28/2017
Newly revised and updated, Ordinary Men is a shocking
account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans
became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands
of Jews.
THE CITIES THAT BUILT THE BIBLE
Robert CargillHC 9780062366740 $29.99PB 9780062366764 $19.99
On sale 2/1/2017Dr. Robert Cargill, archeologist,
Bible scholar, and host of numerous television specials and
documentaries, explores the cities that influenced the Bible, revealing that in order to truly understand the Bible, we must
understand the cities from which it was developed.
**50 black & white images, maps throughout and 16 page color
insert
NO MISSION IS IMPOSSIBLEThe Death-Defying Missions of
the Israeli Special ForcesMichael Bar-Zohar &
Nissim MishalHC 9780062378996 $27.99PB 9780062379009 $15.99
Available NowA riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal’s
account of the most memorable missions of the
Mossad, No Mission is Impossible sheds light on some
of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli
Special forces
A SQUARE MEALA Culinary History of the
Great DepressionAndrew Coe & Jane Ziegelman
HC 9780062216410 $26.99Available Now
Jane Ziegelman, author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard, and her husband, Andrew Coe, team up for an in-depth exploration of America’s greatest food crisis.
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THE LAST INNOCENTSThe Collision of the Turbulent
Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers
Michael LeahyHC 9780062360564 $26.99
Available NowFrom award-winning
sportswriter Michael Leahy, The Last Innocents is the odyssey of
six Los Angeles Dodgers and their team throughout the turbulent
1960s.
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BORN SURVIVORS Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage,
Defiance, and HopeWendy Holden
HC 9780062370259 $26.99PB 9780062370266 $15.99
Available NowThe Nazis had already murdered their husbands; Auschwitz inmates Priska,
Rosa, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children, too. A
remarkable true story of courage, resilience, and love, Born Survivors
celebrates the miracle of three mothers who defied death to give their children
life under the most horrific circumstances.
THE ANGELThe Egyptian Spy Who
Saved IsraelUri Bar-Joseph
HC 9780062420107 $28.99Available Now
The first English-language book to tell the sensational story of Ashraf
Marwan, a top Egyptian official who spied for the Mossad and almost singlehandedly saved Israel from
defeat in the Yom Kippur War, The Angel is a gripping feat of reportage
that blows open the Mossad and reveals the shocking truth behind
Marwan’s mysterious death.
BY CHANCE ALONEA Remarkable True Story of Courage
and Survival at AuschwitzMax Eisen
HC 9781443449281 $26.50Available Now
More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a
new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian
deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in
Auschwitz I, the infamous “death march” in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, a journey of physical and psychological healing.
RYWKA’S DIARYThe Writings of a Jewish Girl
from the Lodz GhettoAnita Friedman
HC 9780062389688 $35.00Available Now
An illustrated, beautifully packaged edition of the diary of a Polish
teenager living in the Lodz ghetto during World War II, accompanied
by commentary from Holocaust scholars and testimony from the girl’s surviving relatives -- a trade
edition of the anthology published by the Jewish Family & Children’s Services of San Francisco for their
membership.
VILLAGE OF SECRETS Defying the Nazis in
Vichy FranceCaroline Moorehead
HC 9780062202475 $27.99PB 9780062202482 $16.99
Available NowFrom the author of the New
York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary
story of a French village that helped save thousands who
were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
SHORT STORIES BY JESUSThe Enigmatic Parables of a
Controversial RabbiAmy-Jill Levine
HC 9780061561016 $25.99PB 9780061561030 $15.99
Available NowRenowned biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine , reveals the “live and
uncut” version of Jesus’ most popular teaching stories,
exposing their misinterpretations and making them come alive for
today’s reader.
50 CHILDRENOne Ordinary American Couple's
Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
Steven PressmanHC 9780062237477 $26.99PB 9780062237484 $15.99
Available NowThe astonishing and inspiring true story of the 1939 rescue mission
of fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America—the
single largest group of children allowed into the United States
during that period.
THE NAZI OFFICER’S WIFEHow One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
Edith Hahn BeerPB 9780062378088 $16.99
Available Now A riveting new chapter in the history of the Holocaust - the memoir of an Austrian Jewish
woman who forged her identity and married a Nazi in order to survive the war years in plain sight in Nazi Germany.
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THE DECEMBER PROJECTAn Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker
Confront Life's Greatest MysterySara Davidson
HC 9780062281746 $25.99PB 9780062281753 $14.99
Available NowIn the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The
Last Lecture, journalist and bestselling author Sara Davidson meets with Jewish Renewal leader and
iconic rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi every Friday for two years to discuss the spiritual work people
must undergo during the December years of their lives.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
MISSION AT NUREMBERGAn American Army Chaplain and the
Trial of the NazisTim Townsend
HC 9780061997198 $28.99PB 9780061997204 $16.99
Available NowThe gripping story of the American Army
Chaplin sent by General Eisenhower to save the souls of the most Nazis incarcerated at
Nuremberg, a compelling and thought-provoking tale that raises questions of faith,
guilt, morality, vengeance, forgiveness, salvation and the essence of humanity.
Religion, History & Faith
Biographies & Memoirs
DIANE ARBUSPortrait of a Photographer
Arthur LubowHC 9780062234322 $35.00PB 9780062234339 $17.99
On sale 3/14/2017Arthur Lubow’s vivid, definitive
biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most important
photographers of the 20th century, the first to relate the whole extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs. .
**16 page black and white insert
THEY CALL ME SUPERMENSCHA Backstage Pass to the Amazing
Worlds of Film, Food,and Rock‘n'RollShep Gordon
HC 9780062355959 $25.99Available Now
An eye-popping peek into entertainment industry from the
magnetic force behind some of the biggest stars of our times.**16-page photo insert
MONASHGrantlee Kieza
HC 9780733333538 $29.99Available Now
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia;
the first major biography of Monash in over a decade.
THE BRIDGE LADIES A Memoir
Betsy LernerHC 9780062354464 $25.99
Available NowCelebrated author Betsy Lerner spends
two years attending her mother’s weekly Bridge Club in New Haven, CT—which has
met on Mondays for fifty years—and discovers the inner lives of five women
from another generation in this warm and insightful look at cross-generational
divides and mother-daughter relationships that reveals a bit about
Bridge and a lot about life.
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SUCH GOOD GIRLSThe Journey of the Holocaust's
Hidden Child SurvivorsR.D. Rosen
HC 9780062297105 $25.99PB 9780062297112 $15.99
Available NowThe real-life puzzle of what happened to the
generation of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust in hiding, Edgar Award-winning
mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells this silent, forgotten generation’s story through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries--
among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to survive World War II--who
went on to lead remarkable lives In New York City.
MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH EXTREMIST
The Story of a TransformationYossi Klein Halevi
PB 9780062362322 $14.99Available Now
Now in paperback for the first time, with a new introduction, a memoir by Yossi Klein Halevi—critically acclaimed author of Like
Dreamers—about his involvement in Jewish extremist politics as a way of responding to a family history dominated by the atrocities of the Holocaust; Yossi’s honest story will speak to a new generation struggling to
understand what it means to be Jewish in America.
AWARD WINNING AUTHOR
THE PIOUS ONES The World of Hasidim and Their
Battles with AmericaJoseph Berger
PB 9780062123343 $15.99Available Now
As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to record proportions after near-extinction during the Holocaust, award-winning New York
Times journalist and author Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their
origins, beliefs, and struggles—and the social and political implications of their
expanding presence in America.
NOTORIOUS RBGThe Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik
HC 9780062415837 $19.99Available Now
A lively and accessible biography of Supreme Court Justice and feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, inspired
by the internet meme ofthe same name.
**Includes 70 color images.
REBBEThe Life and Teachings of
Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History
Joseph TelushkinHC 9780062318985 $29.99PB 9780062318992 $19.99
Available NowNow available in paperback—the inspiring story of the leader who rebuilt a dwindling post-holocaust
community into the most influential Jewish organization in the world. From a modest
synagogue in Brooklyn, the late Rebbe Schneerson impacted US policy, counseled some of our
greatest thinkers, and spread his teachings of love and righteousness to the far
corners of the world.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF THESE THINGS FIRSTSteven Gaines
HC 9781883285692 $24.95Available Now
The author of New York Times bestseller Philistines at the
Hedgerow, Steven Gaines, has written a funny and touching memoir
of a young boy’s coming of age in a Manhattan psychiatric clinic.
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DON’T LET MYBABY DO RODEO
A NovelBoris Fishman
HC 9780062384379 $26.99PB 9780062384379 $15.99
On sale 3/14/2017Now in paperback, this ambitious and commercially appealing sophomore novel from Boris Fishman-critically
acclaimed author of A REPLACEMENT LIFE-follows a couple who travel to
Montana to find their adopted son's biological parents and the source of his
unusually wild behavior.
THE FORTUNATE ONESA Novel
Ellen UmanskyHC 9780062382481 $26.99
On sale 2/14/2017One very special work of art-a
Chaim Soutine painting-will connect the lives and fates of
two different women, generations apart, in this
enthralling and transporting debut novel that moves from
World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles
Fiction Titles
THE MAN WHO WANTED TO KNOW EVERYTHING
A NovelD.A. Mishani
PB 9780062447906 $15.99Available Now
The sequel to international bestseller D.A. Mishani’s critically acclaimed
thrillers, The Missing File and A Possibility of Violence, The Man Who
Wanted To Know Everything is the most daring—and disturbing—Detective Avraham Avraham
novel so far.INTERNATIONAL
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
MOONGLOWA Novel
Michael ChabonHC 9780062225559 $28.99
Available NowFollowing on the heels of his New
York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon
delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and
lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that
work to destroy us.NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
WINTER JOURNEYDiane Armstrong
PB 9780732276959 $15.99On sale 1/24/2017
The huge eBook bestseller now in print in the US for the first time--A mother’s silence, a village with a terrible secret, and an Australian woman who travels to Poland to
uncover the truth.
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THE BIRD’S CHILDSandra Leigh Price
PB 9781460750001 $17.99On sale 2/21/2017
The Bird's Child is a feat of sleight-of-hand. Birds speak, keys appear from nowhere,
boxes spill secrets and the dead talk. this is a magical, stunningly original, irresistible novel - both an achingly beautiful love story and a slowly unfurling mystery
of belonging.
BONE BOXA Decker/Lazarus Novel
Faye KellermanPB 9781460750001 $17.99
On sale 2/21/2017In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman's bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police
detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome, decades
old, unsolved murders, pointing to a diabolical, serial killer who's
been hiding in plain sight.BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE WOMEN IN THE CASTLEA Novel
Jessica ShattuckHC 9780062563668 $26.99
On sale 3/28/2017In this evocative and utterly enthralling
novel, Jessica Shattuck offers a fresh perspective on one of the most tumultuous periods in history.
Combining piercing social insight and vivid historical atmosphere, The Women in the Castle is a dramatic yet nuanced
portrait of war and its repercussions that explores what it means to survive, love, and, ultimately, to forgive in the
wake of unimaginable hardship.
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THE KAMINSKY CUREChristopher New
HC 9781883285678 $17.00Available Now
New York Times bestseller Christopher New has written a
harrowing portrait of a half-Aryan/half Jewish family trying
to survive the Nazi regime in wartime Austria. The book has already been compared to the
film Life is Beautiful.
Fiction Titles
AND AFTER THE FIREA Novel
Lauren BelferHC 9780062428516 $26.99
Available NowFans of Possession and Sarah’s Key will love this masterful new novel from Lauren Belfer, the New York
Times bestselling, critically acclaimed author of City of Light and A Fierce Radiance. Tracing the journey of a long-lost Bach cantata, the story interweaves an atmospheric and
authentic historical narrative with a gripping contemporary plot.
THE GIRL FROM THE GARDENA Novel
Parnaz ForoutanPB 9780062388391 $14.99
Available NowA critically acclaimed debut novel of desire, obsession, power, and vulnerability, in which a crisis of inheritance leads to the downfall
of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in early twentieth-century Iran--
Named one of 2015’s Top Ten First Novels by Booklist.
THE WAITING ROOMLeah Kaminsky
PB 9780062490476 $15.99Available Now
A multi-generational novel perfect for fans of The Tiger’s Wife and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Leah Kaminsky’s wry fiction debut unfolds over a day in the life of a young physician in contemporary
Israel, who must cope with modern threats under the shadow of her parents’ horrific wartime pasts.
A REUNION OF GHOSTSA Novel
Judith Claire MitchellHC 9780062355881 $26.99PB 9780062355898 $15.99
Available NowHailed as “a triumphant, beautiful, and devastating novel” by Anthony Doerr, A
Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they
tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters’ great-grandfather, a
Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the
lethal agent used in the Third Reich’s gas chambers-inspired in part by the troubled life
of Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of mustard gas.
A REPLACEMENT LIFEA Novel
Boris FishmanHC 9780062287878 $25.99PB 9780062287885 $14.99
Available NowA universally acclaimed literary debut about an aspiring twenty-something
Russian-Jewish writer who struggles to reconcile his immigrant roots with his
fragile new American identity.
THE BEAUTIFUL POSSIBLEA Novel
Amy GottliebPB 9780062383365 $15.99
Available NowThis epic, enthralling debut novel—in the vein of Nicole
Krauss’ The History of Love—follows a postwar love triangle between an American rabbi, his
wife, and a German refugee that spans sixty years and
several continents.
LET THERE BE LAUGHTERA Treasury of Great Jewish Humor
and What It All MeansMichael Krasny
HC 9780062422040 $19.99Available Now
From the host of NPR affiliate’s “Forum with Michael Krasny,” this
Jewish joke book packs the punches with hilarious riff after riff and what they really mean about
Jewish culture.HUMOR
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THE ORPHAN’S TALEPam Jenoff
HC 9780778330639 $26.99PB 9780778319818 $15.99
Both On sale 2/21/2017The Nightingale meets Water for
Elephants in this powerful novel of friendship and sacrifice, set in a
traveling circus during World War II, by international bestselling author
Pam Jenoff.
THE AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTERPam Jenoff
PB 9780778315094 $14.95Available Now
Against the backdrop of one of the most significant events of the century,
a delicate web of lies obscures the line between the casualties of war
and of the heart, making trust a luxury that no one can afford.
THE WINTER GUEST Pam Jenoff
PB 9780778315964 $14.95Available Now
A stirring novel of first love in a time of war and the unbearable choices
that could tear sisters apart.
THE KOMMANDANT'S GIRL Pam Jenoff
PB 9780778320586 $15.99Available Now
In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, bestselling author Pam Jenoff
shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war.
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THE LAST SUMMER AT CHELSEA BEACH
Pam JenoffPB 9780778317548 $14.95
Available NowYoung Adelia Montforte flees fascist
Italy for America, where she is whisked away to the shore by her
well-meaning aunt and uncle. Here, she meets and falls for Charlie
Connally, the eldest of the four Irish-Catholic boys next door.
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THE DIPLOMAT’S WIFEPam Jenoff
PB 9780778325123 $13.95Available Now
1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky
to have escaped with her life. Recovering from the horror, she meets Paul, an American soldier who gives her hope of a happier future. But their plans
to meet in London are dashed when Paul's plane crashes.
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By Brad Meltzer
Heroes for My Daughter HC 9780062439277 $17.99
Available Now
Heroes for My SonHC 9780062439314 $17.99
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Each of the beautiful spreads within HEROES FOR MY DAUGHTER & HEROES FOR MY SON focuses on one of Brad’s hero selections—descriptions of their heroic actions and quotes from the heroes themselves
accompany large black and white photos. Brad’s commentary on why he finds each figure so inspiring will give readers a true picture of the actions, large and small, that can create a hero.
Biography Books for Children
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THE PLOT TO KILL HITLERDietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor,
Spy, Unlikely HeroPatricia McCormick
HC 9780062411082 $18.99Available Now
A nonfiction middle grade book from award-winning author Patricia
McCormick about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German minister who was involved in a plot to kill Hitler.
Middle Grade Non-Fiction
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FOUR PERFECT PEBBLESA True Story of the Holocaust
Lila PerlPB 9780062489968 $6.99
Available NowThe twentieth-anniversary edition
of Marion Blumenthal Lazan's acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the
author and additional photographs.
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Teen Fiction
RONIT & JAMILPamela Laskin
HC 9780062458544 $17.99On sale 2/21/2017
This beautiful and lyrical novel in verse delivers a fresh and
captivating retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that transports the star-crossed lovers to the modern-day Israel-
Palestine conflict in Gaza.
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THE UPSIDE OF UNREQUITEDBecky Albertalli
HC 9780062348708 $17.99On sale 4/11/2017
Jane Austen’s EMMA (or "Clueless") meets David Levithan
in this funny, authentic novel about love, relationships, and
identity, from the Morris Award-winning author of SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA
**FORTHCOMING SUMMER 2017 TITLES**• 9781460751664 It's Always About the Food By Monday Morning Cooking Club – On sale 6/6/2017 ● HC $35.00 ● COOKING
• 9780062419095 Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
By Bruce Henderson – On sale 7/25/2017 ● HC $28.99 ● HISTORY• 9781883285708 The Mapmaker's Daughter By Katherine Nouri Hughes – On sale 8/8/2017 ● PB $18.00 ● FICTION