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Author
Publisher
Mekor Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Raised in a non observant Jewish home in Las Vegas, Shawn Balva is the star quarterback on his high school football team and dreams of going pro. But when the talented athlete dabbles in a world that glorifies violence and crime, he loses control, spiraling into a life of desperation and addiction. When Shawn is arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to prison at the age of twenty-one, he begins a desperate search for meaning. He is determined...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Raining Delusions is a work of fictionalized stories woven together about those who grew up in a tiny community in The Catskills, and how they related to families, friends, lovers, life's experiences, obstacles and fate. Some of the events are based on memories, fragments of information, really of village life and the eccentric way people communicated with one another, the Borscht Belt way. They cover the gamut of raw obscenities, conflict, digs,...
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jewish Noir 2 is unique collection of twenty-three all-new stories (and one reprint) by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Gabriela Alemán, Doug Allyn, Rita Lakin, Rabbi Ilene Schneider, E.J. Wagner, and Kenneth Wishnia, with a foreword by MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block. The stories explore such issues as the perpetual challenge of confronting resurgent anti-Semitism in the US, the...
Author
Publisher
Tovah Miriam
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Steinway survives a catastrophic flood by moving into her treehouse located on the northern shoreline of the San Francisco Bay. Sarah, aged seventy-five, observes from her perch a rise in sea level that engulfs the entire landscape for as far as she can see. With snark and pluck, she survives in her treehouse for five years. She records the flood, narrates her survival, and leavens her story with gusts of biting humor. Somewhat sheepishly as...
74) Of lessons lost
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"This fast paced novel opens with brothers Yaakov and Lazer's daring escape from the back of a Nazi vehicle en route to their execution in occupied Poland. Surviving alone in the woods untl the war ends, the brothers return to their hometown in search of Wilus Chomelstien, the mayor that had informed the Germans of their plans to organize an armed resitance. The brothers want Wilus to pay for his disloyalty. But the outcome of their meeting with Wilus...
Author
Publisher
Tule Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
You can't make a latke without breaking a few eggs...Batya Averman is ecstatic when a latke fry-off committee chooses her as its web designer-until she learns the event is in Rivertown, New York, the hometown she fled years ago. But she's no longer the girl with an embarrassing history and an unrequited crush on Abe Neumann. This delicious competition is Batya's chance to further her career, and this time she won't run. Abe Neumann can't pass up the...
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This canonical work of Polish reportage is a terse, unexpected human lesson born of an occupation-era love story. Based on a true story, the raw interplay of history and fictionalization spans the Warsaw Ghetto, the war-torn countryside, and the nightmare of Auschwitz. This is the book's first US publication. Hanna Krall was born in 1935 in Poland and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a cupboard. She has received numerous Polish and international...