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A conversation between a Tel Aviv waitress and her elderly customer sparks a journey of healing in this compelling novel by the author of Light Fell.
At eighty-four, Teo, one of the world's most influential choreographers, is ready to withdraw from the bombast and romance surrounding his long and illustrious career. But then he meets Vivi, a waitress at a Tel Aviv café, and the slumbering passions of his youth are rouses once more....
At eighty-four, Teo, one of the world's most influential choreographers, is ready to withdraw from the bombast and romance surrounding his long and illustrious career. But then he meets Vivi, a waitress at a Tel Aviv café, and the slumbering passions of his youth are rouses once more....
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One of America's most important novelists (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals, an older lawyer and a young novelist, whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert. Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized...
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Avraham Avraham mysteries volume 1
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The inspiration for the Peacock Original series The Calling, streaming now!
"A tense, gripping page-turner that I devoured in two days-it's hard to believe it's a debut." - S.J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep
Israeli detective Avraham Avraham must find a teenage boy gone missing from the suburbs of Tel Aviv in this first volume in the thrilling crime series by D. A. Mishani.
Crimes in Avraham's quiet suburb...
5) Lineup
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When a brutal rape case is thrown out due to a procedural technicality and the suspect goes free, disgraced Detective Eli Nahum, after another rape occurs in a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood, is determined to find the truth at any cost.
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When feisty young Tsippy Silberberg of the curious eating habits receives word from Tel Aviv that a distant aunt has left her a mysterious inheritance-an incomplete fish service in a battered brown suitcase-she decides to break her rigid routine and go collect it in person. But before she is even able to settle into her hotel room, an odd old woman bangs on her door and invites herself in. Her name is Bella Kugelman, and she is determined to talk....
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"Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal the ills of a society in the midst of an identity crisis"--
8) Asylum city
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"Joseph Finder hailed Liad Shoham's previous book, Lineup, as "a marvel of tight plotting, sparse prose, and relentless pacing." A young police officer's search for the truth about the murder of a young woman drives this new thriller from the #1 international bestseller"--
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"Willie Ackerland was a Jewish baby in Hitler's Berlin when his mother entrusted him to a friend who was fleeing Nazi Germany to Israel. Henrietta Ackerland survived World War II, longing for the day in which she and her son would be reunited. Private investigator Adam Lapid doesn't believe ha can find Willie Ackerland, but he's willing to try. What Adam doesn't realize is that this missing persons case will soon land him in a heap of trouble. For...
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Private detective Adam Lapid has seen his share of death. He lost his family in Auschwitz. He survived the Holocaust. He nearly died in Israel's War of Independence. Now it is 1949, and Adam Lapid lives alone in Tel Aviv, Israel, haunted by nightmares, trying to rebuild his life. When a local Arab hires him to find out who murdered his sister, Adam Lapid launches an investigation that plunges him into a murky underworld of crime and depravity, and...
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"When an Israeli tech executive disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red at his side, logic dictates youthful indiscretion rael is on a state of high alert nonetheless. And for Commissaire Leger of the Paris Police Force, all coincidences are suspect. When a second young Israeli from the flight is kidnapped, this time at gunpoint from his hotel room, his suspicions are confirmed--and a diplomatic crisis looms. As the race to identify...
12) Central Station
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A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris¿́¿s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated...
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"In the beginning there was Lucette, who is the mother to three children--Sammy, a gentle giant, almost blind, but a genius with locks; Corinne, a flighty beauty who cannot keep a job; and "the child," an afterthought, who strives to make sense of her fractured Egyptian-Jewish immigrant family. Lucette's children would like a kinder, warmer home, but what they have is a government-issued concrete box, out in the thorns and sand on the outskirts of...
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Avraham Avraham mysteries volume 2
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Harper
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2014.
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"The second in D.A. Mishani's acclaimed literary crime series--the sequel to 2013's The Missing File, shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association International Dagger Award--featuring Detective Avraham Avraham"-- Provided by publisher.
19) Three
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Europa Editions
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2020.
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Three women whose lives seem as far apart as possible are united by a common secret.
20) Skrytai͡a ugroza
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Izdatelʹstvo "Ė"
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2018.
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"When an explosive device is found in a suitcase near a daycare center in Holon, a quiet suburb of Tel Aviv, Inspector Avraham Avraham has to act fast to track down the suspects"--